Azure Monitoring Hackathon

Overview

This challenged based Azure Monitoring Hackathon is intended to teach you how to monitor Azure workloads. During these three days you will be working Azure Monitor and Alerting, Log Analytics and Application Insights.

Goals

1. Build attendees technical skills on Monitoring workloads in Azure

2. Understand what Monitoring Tools are available in Azure and how to implement them.

Prerequisites

1. Attendees have access to an Azure Subscription where they can each deploy the provided ARM template that will build a very detailed infrastructure to monitor.  This includes the Vnet, subnets, NSG(s), LB(s), NAT rules, Scales Set and a fully functional .NET Core Application (eShopOnWeb) to monitor.

2.Attendees should have a level 200-300 understanding of the Azure platform.  Understand concepts like PowerShell, Azure Cli, ARM, resource groups, RBAC, network, storage, compute, Scale Sets, virtual machines and security.  Previous experience working with ARM templates is recommended.

3. Access to a machine with Visual Studio Code and the Azure PowerShell Modules loaded or Azure CLI. VS Code ARM and PowerShell extensions should be configured.

Agenda

Day 1

9 – 9:30 AM: Kickoff & Introductions

9:30 - 11 AM: Azure Monitoring Briefing on Azure Monitor and Alerts, Log Analytics and Application Insights

11 am - Noon: Setup Infrastructure (PowerShell (or Azure CLI) and ARM template)

Noon – 1 PM: Lunch

1 – 3 PM: Azure Monitor and Alerting Challenges

3 – 3:15 PM: Break

3:15 – 5 PM: Log Analytics Challenges begins

Day 2

9 – 9:30 AM: Team Sync up (what did you learn from Day 1?, how did it go?, blocked?)

9:30 - Noon: Log Analytics Challenges Starts\Continues

Noon – 1 PM: Lunch

1 – 3 PM: Log Analytics Solution Challenge begins

3 – 3:15 PM: break

3:15 – 5 PM: Setup eShopOnWeb Application in VS

Day 3

9 – 9:30 AM: Team Sync up (what did you learn from Day 2?, how did it go?, blocked?)

9:30 - Noon: App Insights Challenges begin

Noon – 1 PM: Lunch

1 – 3 PM: Application Insight Challenges Continues

3 – 4 PM: Plan & Whiteboard Monitoring for existing Application