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AZ-104 Prep

Monitoring and Alerting Field Guide

Self-paced with live checkpoints · 3 weeks

This field guide format reads like a dispatch series. You will tune alerts against noisy sample tenants, write concise incident records, and practice handoffs that fit Korean on-call etiquette. Cloud cost ops tie-ins appear where metrics overlap with spend signals.

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What is included

  • Signal triage worksheets
  • Rotating editor notes on alert copy tone
  • Guest segment from a partner SRE on enterprise markets

Outcomes

  1. Draft a humane alert template with clear owner routing
  2. Build a dashboard trio that answers three executive questions
  3. Run a post-incident review using the provided template

FAQ

Is Grafana included?

We reference Azure-native tools first; Grafana appears as an optional bridge module.

Will this reduce pages automatically?

No magic fixes—expect process work and stakeholder conversations.

Is Korean language support available?

Live checkpoints offer Korean-language facilitation when noted on the schedule.

Cohort notes

“Monitoring Field Guide reframed alert text as editorial discipline. Unexpectedly useful for our ops newsletter.”
Taeyang · Industrial IoT vendor