AZ-1004: Deploy and Configure Azure Monitor

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in deploying and configuring Azure Monitor for metrics, logs, data collection, alerts, visualizations, governance, and operational troubleshooting. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain Azure Monitor components, platform metrics, resource logs, activity logs, Log Analytics workspaces, and data flow
• Design workspace, retention, access, region, cost, naming, tagging, and monitoring-scope decisions
• Configure Azure Monitor Agent, data collection endpoints, data collection rules, diagnostic settings, and supported sources
• Query logs with KQL, analyze metrics, create custom dimensions, manage tables, and validate data completeness
• Create metric, log-search, activity-log, dynamic-threshold, and service-health alerts with suitable action groups
• Build workbooks, dashboards, charts, queries, parameters, and role-focused operational views
• Apply RBAC, private links, data export, retention, compliance, cost controls, and monitoring-as-code practices
• Troubleshoot missing data, agent issues, query errors, noisy alerts, latency, permissions, and service limits

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.