Quick Answer
Azure Monitor is the correct choice because it delivers a single pane of glass monitoring across subscriptions, unifying telemetry from metrics, logs, and alerts for all Azure resources regardless of subscription boundaries. This works through Azure Monitor’s ability to aggregate data at the tenant level, using Log Analytics workspaces and diagnostic settings to collect and correlate performance and health signals from multiple subscriptions into one centralized view. On the AZ-305 exam, this scenario tests your understanding of cross-subscription observability versus isolated monitoring tools; a common trap is selecting Azure Service Health (which only reports on Azure platform incidents) or Azure Advisor (which focuses on best practices and cost optimization). Remember that Azure Monitor is the only service designed to ingest and analyze resource-level telemetry across subscriptions, while other options address narrower concerns. A helpful memory tip: think of “Monitor” as the master dashboard—if you need to see everything in one place, it’s always Azure Monitor.
This AZ-305 practice question tests your understanding of design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions. Match the stated requirement to the specific cloud service, access model, or configuration option — many options are valid in isolation but not for this scenario. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
Your company has multiple Azure subscriptions and needs a single pane of glass to monitor the health and performance of all resources across subscriptions. Which Azure service should you use?
Microsoft Sentinel
Why wrong: Sentinel is for security event management, not general resource monitoring.
Azure Service Health
Why wrong: Service Health shows status of Azure services, not resource performance.
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor provides metrics, logs, and alerts for all Azure resources across subscriptions.
Azure Advisor
Why wrong: Advisor gives best practice recommendations, not real-time monitoring.
Answer choices
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is the correct choice because it provides a unified, single-pane-of-glass experience for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from all Azure resources across multiple subscriptions. It aggregates metrics, logs, and alerts from various sources, enabling cross-subscription monitoring of health and performance without requiring separate tools.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
Microsoft Sentinel
Why it's wrong here
Sentinel is for security event management, not general resource monitoring.
Azure Service Health
Why it's wrong here
Service Health shows status of Azure services, not resource performance.
Azure Monitor
Why this is correct
Azure Monitor provides metrics, logs, and alerts for all Azure resources across subscriptions.
Related concept
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Azure Advisor
Why it's wrong here
Advisor gives best practice recommendations, not real-time monitoring.
Common exam traps
The trap here is confusing Azure Monitor's broad monitoring capabilities with specialized services like Sentinel (security) or Service Health (Azure infrastructure status), leading candidates to pick a tool that addresses only a subset of the requirement.
Trap categories for this question
Command / output trap
Service Health shows status of Azure services, not resource performance.
Detailed technical explanation
Azure Monitor uses a common data platform that ingests both platform metrics (e.g., CPU, memory from Azure resources) and custom logs via Log Analytics workspaces. It supports cross-subscription queries using resource-context logs and can aggregate data from multiple subscriptions into a single workbook or dashboard. A subtle behavior is that you must explicitly configure diagnostic settings to send resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace; otherwise, only basic platform metrics are available.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A cloud solutions architect for a retail company is evaluating services for a new workload. The correct answer here reflects best practice for the specific scenario described — not a general cloud recommendation. Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option. Cloud exam questions reward reading the constraint carefully: the same technology can be right or wrong depending on the use case.
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Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions — This question tests Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: Azure Monitor — Azure Monitor is the correct choice because it provides a unified, single-pane-of-glass experience for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from all Azure resources across multiple subscriptions. It aggregates metrics, logs, and alerts from various sources, enabling cross-subscription monitoring of health and performance without requiring separate tools.
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