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AZ-204 Practice Question: Azure Monitor metric alert for 5xx error rate…
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The team needs to receive an email when an App Service's HTTP 5xx error rate exceeds 5 percent for more than five consecutive minutes. No custom code should be written. What combination of Azure Monitor features implements this requirement?
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A
Best answer
Create a metric alert on the Http5xxErrors metric with a 5-percent threshold, a 5-minute evaluation window, and an action group that sends email
App Service emits Http5xxErrors as a platform metric. A metric alert configured with a 5-percent threshold and a PT5M evaluation window checks the condition every minute and fires after the threshold is breached continuously for 5 minutes. The action group routes the alert to the team's email.
B
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Create a log alert that queries the App Service diagnostic log table every 5 minutes and emails the team if the 5xx count exceeds a threshold
Log alerts work, but they require diagnostic settings to route logs to a Log Analytics workspace, and query latency adds delay beyond the 5-minute evaluation window. For platform metrics already exposed natively, metric alerts are simpler, faster, and require no log forwarding setup.
C
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Enable Application Insights availability tests and configure an alert on test failure rate
Availability tests check whether an endpoint responds to HTTP pings from external locations. They detect downtime or reachability issues but do not reflect the HTTP 5xx error rate of real user traffic.
D
Distractor review
Configure a diagnostic setting to stream logs to Azure Storage, then write a Function that reads the storage file and sends email when errors are found
This is an over-engineered custom pipeline. Azure Monitor's built-in metric alert and action group system eliminates the need for custom code, storage routing, and a Function just to send an alert email.
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KKey Concepts to Remember
- Azure Monitor metric alert
- action group
- HTTP 5xx errors
- evaluation period
TExam Day Tips
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Azure Monitor metric alert
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What does this AZ-204 question test?
Azure Monitor metric alert
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Create a metric alert on the Http5xxErrors metric with a 5-percent threshold, a 5-minute evaluation window, and an action group that sends email — Azure Monitor metric alerts evaluate a metric against a threshold over a configurable evaluation window. The HTTP 5xx error metric is natively exposed by App Service. An action group defines what happens when the condition is met — including sending email, SMS, or calling a webhook. Combining a metric alert with an email action group requires no code and fires within the configured evaluation window.
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