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AZ-204 · Question #42
A company is migrating an existing on-premises third-party website to Azure. The website is stateless. The company does not have access to the source code for the website. They do have the original in
The correct answer is D. Use Azure Monitor to create autoscale settings using custom metrics.. Azure Monitor autoscaling allows you to scale the number of running instances up or down, based on telemetry data (metrics). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/insights-autoscale-common-
Submitted by andres_qro· Mar 30, 2026Develop Azure compute solutions
Question
A company is migrating an existing on-premises third-party website to Azure. The website is stateless. The company does not have access to the source code for the website. They do have the original installer. The number of visitors at the website varies throughout the year. The on-premises infrastructure was resized to accommodate peaks but the extra capacity was not used. You need to implement a virtual machine scale set instance. What should you do?
Options
- AUse an autoscale setting to scale instances vertically.
- BUse an autoscale setting with unlimited maximum number of instances.
- CScale out by one instance when the average CPU usage of one of the instance is over 80
- DUse Azure Monitor to create autoscale settings using custom metrics.
How the community answered
(34 responses)- A3% (1)
- B18% (6)
- C9% (3)
- D71% (24)
Explanation
Azure Monitor autoscaling allows you to scale the number of running instances up or down, based on telemetry data (metrics). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/insights-autoscale-common-
Topics
#VM scale sets#autoscale#custom metrics#Azure Monitor
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