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Azure AZ-204 Monitoring Guide

Study Azure AZ-204 Monitoring: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.

This chapter is small in percentage but high in point-loss risk because the answer choices often all sound plausible. AZ-204 expects you to know how to instrument apps, read metrics, traces, and logs, and set alerts that support real troubleshooting instead of noise.

Current weight in the study guide

Microsoft currently weights Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions at 5-10% of the exam.

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Lesson Focus
4.1 App Insights, Logs & Alerts Learn how Azure Monitor Application Insights supports instrumentation, diagnostics, and alert-driven operations.

What strong answers usually do

  • separate instrumentation from deployment
  • read the right signal before changing code
  • use alerts for actionable thresholds instead of noisy event spam

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Revised on Sunday, May 10, 2026