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AZ-500 · Question #340

Your company's Azure subscription includes an Azure Log Analytics workspace. Your company has a hundred on-premises servers that run either Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016, and is…

The correct answer is C. You should make use of the Metric signal type. Metric alerts in Azure Monitor provide a way to get notified when one of your metrics cross a Metric alerts work on a range of multi-dimensional platform metrics, custom metrics, Application Insights standard and custom metrics. Note: Signals are emitted by the target resource…

Submitted by ravi_2018· Mar 6, 2026Secure Azure using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel

Question

Your company's Azure subscription includes an Azure Log Analytics workspace. Your company has a hundred on-premises servers that run either Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016, and is linked to the Azure Log Analytics workspace. The Azure Log Analytics workspace is set up to gather performance counters associated with security from these linked servers. You have been tasked with configuring alerts according to the information gathered by the Azure Log Analytics workspace. You have to make sure that alert rules allow for dimensions, and that alert creation time should be kept to a minimum. Furthermore, a single alert notification must be created when the alert is created and when the alert is sorted out. You need to make use of the necessary signal type when creating the alert rules. Which of the following is the option you should use?

Options

  • AYou should make use of the Activity log signal type.
  • BYou should make use of the Application Log signal type.
  • CYou should make use of the Metric signal type.
  • DYou should make use of the Audit Log signal type.

How the community answered

(43 responses)
  • A
    9% (4)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    84% (36)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Metric alerts in Azure Monitor provide a way to get notified when one of your metrics cross a Metric alerts work on a range of multi-dimensional platform metrics, custom metrics, Application Insights standard and custom metrics. Note: Signals are emitted by the target resource and can be of several types. Metric, Activity log, Application Insights, and Log. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/alerts-metric

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