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Start Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions PracticeYou are monitoring an e-commerce application with Application Insights. You need to analyze all exceptions that occurred in the last 24 hours, grouped by the exception type. You also need to include the URL where each exception was triggered and the number of times each type occurred. Which Log Analytics Kusto query should you use?
Explanation: It uses the `exceptions` table to filter exceptions from the last 24 hours, joins with the `requests` table on `operation_Id` to correlate each exception with the request URL, and then summarizes the count by exception type (extracted from `innermostType`) and URL. This meets all requirements: grouping by exception type, including the URL, and counting occurrences.
You manage a web application on Azure App Service. You need to monitor its availability from multiple geographic locations, checking that the homepage loads and returns HTTP 200 within 5 seconds. You want an alert if any location fails. Which type of Application Insights test should you create?
Explanation: A Standard test (also known as a URL ping test) is the correct choice because it is the simplest availability test in Application Insights, designed to check that a single URL returns an HTTP 200 response within a specified timeout (here, 5 seconds). It can be configured to run from multiple geographic locations, and you can set an alert to fire if any location reports a failure, meeting the requirement exactly. In the Azure portal, this test type is explicitly named 'Standard test'.
A production API needs proactive alerting for failed dependency calls. Which two elements are required for a useful Azure Monitor alert?
Explanation: Azure Monitor alerts require a signal—either a metric, log query, or activity log event—to define the condition that triggers the alert. For failed dependency calls, you would use a log query (e.g., from Application Insights) or a custom metric to detect when the dependency failure rate exceeds a threshold. Without a signal, the alert has no basis to evaluate or fire.
An Azure App Service application has memory pressure. The developer needs distributed tracing across requests and dependencies. What should be enabled?
Explanation: Application Insights with dependency tracking enables distributed tracing by automatically collecting telemetry across HTTP requests, database calls, and external service dependencies. This allows developers to correlate end-to-end transactions and identify the root cause of memory pressure, such as a specific dependency causing excessive resource consumption.
Application Insights ingestion cost is rising because a high-traffic app emits large telemetry volume. The team needs statistically useful telemetry while reducing ingestion. What should be configured?
Explanation: Adaptive sampling in Application Insights automatically reduces the volume of telemetry data sent from high-traffic apps by intelligently selecting a representative subset of events. This preserves statistical utility for analysis while significantly lowering ingestion costs, making it the ideal solution for the described scenario.
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