Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources for AZ-104

The final AZ-104 domain is about operational signal and recovery readiness. Azure administrators need to detect problems early, investigate them with the right telemetry, and recover services or data without improvising during an outage.

What this domain is really testing

Microsoft wants to know whether you can separate metrics from logs, connect alerts to real actions, and choose backup or replication tools that match the recovery goal. This domain also checks whether you know where Azure’s operational troubleshooting tools fit.

Current weight in the study guide

Microsoft currently weights this domain at 10–15% of AZ-104. It is the lightest domain by percentage, but it is still worth cleaning up because monitoring and recovery distinctions are easy points once the tool boundaries are clear.

Work this domain in order

Start with Azure Monitor, Insights, and Alerting and then finish with Backup, Site Recovery, and Network Watcher.

Common AZ-104 traps

• treating every monitoring question like a log query problem
• setting alerts without thinking about who gets notified or what should happen next
• confusing backup with disaster-recovery replication
• designing recovery plans that have never been tested once

Finish this chapter, then use the cheat sheet and resources for final review and official references.

In this section

• Use Azure Monitor, Insights, and Alerting for AZ-104
  Learn the metrics, logs, alerting, and insights behaviors that matter most for AZ-104 operational scenarios.
• Use Backup, Site Recovery, and Network Watcher for AZ-104
  Understand Azure Backup, Site Recovery, vault choices, failover, reporting, and Network Watcher troubleshooting for AZ-104.