Alerts and action groups in Azure - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create an alert rule that triggers when CPU usage exceeds 80%.

Azure

az monitor metrics alert create --name HighCPUAlert --resource-group MyResourceGroup --scopes MyVMResourceId --condition "avg Percentage CPU > [1]" --window-size 5m --evaluation-frequency 1m

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A70

B100

C90

D80

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Common Mistakes

Using a threshold lower than 80 causes too many alerts.

Using a threshold higher than 80 might miss important alerts.

The alert triggers when the average CPU usage is greater than 80%, so the correct threshold is 80.

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medium

Complete the code to add an action group that sends an email when the alert fires.

Azure

az monitor action-group create --name MyActionGroup --resource-group MyResourceGroup --short-name MyActionGroup [1] EmailReceiver [e-mail]

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A--email-receiver

B--email

C--email-address

D--receiver-email

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Common Mistakes

Using incorrect parameter names like '--email' or '--email-address'.

Missing the required parameter for email receiver.

The correct parameter to specify an email receiver in Azure CLI is --email-receiver.

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hard

Fix the error in the alert condition syntax to correctly monitor disk space below 10%.

Azure

az monitor metrics alert create --name LowDiskSpace --resource-group MyResourceGroup --scopes MyDiskResourceId --condition "avg [1] < 10" --window-size 5m --evaluation-frequency 1m

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ADisk Space

BLogicalDisk\% Free Space

CLogicalDisk Free Space

DFree Disk Space

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Common Mistakes

Using metric names without escaping special characters.

Using incomplete or incorrect metric names.

The correct metric name for monitoring free disk space percentage is LogicalDisk\% Free Space with the backslash escaping the percent sign.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create an alert rule that triggers when memory usage is above 75% and sends an SMS notification.

Azure

az monitor metrics alert create --name HighMemoryAlert --resource-group MyResourceGroup --scopes MyVMResourceId --condition "avg [1] > 75" --window-size 5m --evaluation-frequency 1m --action-group [2]

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APercentage Memory Used

BMyEmailActionGroup

CMySMSActionGroup

DMemory Usage

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Common Mistakes

Using incorrect metric names like 'Memory Usage'.

Using the wrong action group for SMS notifications.

The metric to monitor memory usage is Percentage Memory Used. The action group to send SMS notifications is MySMSActionGroup.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create an action group with email, SMS, and webhook receivers.

Azure

az monitor action-group create --name MultiChannelGroup --resource-group MyResourceGroup --short-name MultiChannelGroup [1] EmailReceiver [e-mail] [2] SMSReceiver [phone] [3] WebhookReceiver https://example.com/alert

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A--email-receiver

B--sms-receiver

C--webhook-receiver

D--email

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using incorrect parameter names like '--email' instead of '--email-receiver'.

Mixing up parameters between receiver types.

The correct parameters for action group receivers are --email-receiver, --sms-receiver, and --webhook-receiver.