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Monitoring and Observability
premium
KQL
KQL controls how operators search telemetry, detect incidents, investigate performance, build dashboards, create alerts, and summarize operational evidence across Azure services. Teams see it in log analytics workspaces, azure monitor logs. It is not SQL, PromQL, OData filters, ARM template expressions, Azure Data Factory expression language, or application code; confusing them can create missed incidents, expensive queries. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Query language
Fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Kusto Query Language, Kusto query, Azure Monitor query language, Sentinel query language
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Management and Governance
premium
Policy Insights
Policy Insights is where Azure Policy compliance evidence becomes queryable. Azure Policy definitions and assignments describe what should happen, but Policy Insights shows what Azure observed after evaluation. It stores state records that show current compliance and event records that show recent evaluation activity. Operators use it to answer questions such as which resources are non-compliant, which assignment is responsible, when the state changed, and whether remediation improved results. It turns policy from a static rule set into operational telemetry.
Azure Policy
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Policy Insights, policy-insights
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Databases
premium
PostgreSQL log analytics
PostgreSQL log analytics means collecting PostgreSQL flexible server logs in Azure Monitor so operators can search them, build alerts, and investigate problems with KQL. Instead of downloading log files manually or guessing from symptoms, teams route PostgreSQLLogs and related categories to a Log Analytics workspace. The value comes from patterns: failed connections, slow queries, audit events, PgBouncer signals, configuration effects, and workload changes. It is not free and not automatically useful; teams must choose categories, retention, workspace access, alert logic, and dashboards that match the database risk.
PostgreSQL flexible server
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL log analytics, postgresql log analytics, Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Availability result
Availability result is the recorded outcome of an Application Insights availability test run, including whether the probe succeeded, how long it took, and where it ran. In Azure, teams encounter it when teams query Azure Monitor Logs after a synthetic web test reports failures, slow responses, or regional differences. The useful question is what behavior
Availability
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AppAvailabilityResults, availability test result, Application Insights availability result
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Log Analytics table
A Log Analytics table is the named storage structure inside a Log Analytics workspace that holds one kind of Azure Monitor log record, with its own schema, plan, retention behavior, access considerations, and KQL query patterns for troubleshooting, analytics, and compliance.
Azure Monitor Logs
fundamentals
4 commands
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Log Analytics workspace
A Log Analytics workspace is the Azure Monitor Logs data store where collected log records are retained, secured, queried with KQL, and used by alerts, workbooks, Microsoft Sentinel, Application Insights, and operations teams to troubleshoot and govern Azure workloads in governed production environments.
Azure Monitor Logs
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: workspace, LAW
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
AppDependencies
AppDependencies is the Azure Monitor Logs table used by Application Insights to store dependency telemetry for downstream calls such as HTTP services, SQL databases, storage, queues, and other remote components. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
Application Insights
fundamentals
2 commands
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
AppExceptions
the Azure Monitor Logs table that stores exception telemetry collected from Application Insights-enabled applications.
Application Insights table
intermediate
2 commands
Aliases: AppExceptions, appexceptions
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
AppRequests
AppRequests is an Azure Monitor Logs table for Application Insights request telemetry, including request duration, result code, success state, operation, and related application context.
Application Insights table
fundamentals
2 commands
Aliases: Application Insights requests table, apprequests
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
AppTraces
AppTraces is the Azure Monitor table where Application Insights stores trace and log messages emitted by an application. In plain terms, it is where developers and operators look for the app’s own words during troubleshooting. Requests and dependencies explain what happened around the app, but traces often explain what the code thought it.
Application Insights table
intermediate
2 commands
Aliases: Application Insights traces, traces table, Azure Monitor AppTraces, trace telemetry table
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Monitoring and Observability
verified
Workspace retention
Workspace retention defines how long Log Analytics data remains available for analytics and how long it is kept in long-term retention. Retention can be configured at workspace and table levels, affecting query availability, search jobs, compliance evidence, incident review, and Azure Monitor storage cost before data is deleted.
Logs
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Log Analytics retention, Workspace data retention, Azure Monitor Logs retention, Table retention
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s unified observability service for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from Azure, hybrid, and application workloads. It brings together metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, workbooks, and Application Insights capabilities so teams can understand health, performance, and reliability.
Monitoring
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: Azure Monitor, Monitor, Azure observability, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure metrics and logs
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Compute
premium
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is Azure serverless compute for running code from triggers such as HTTP requests, queues, timers, events, and service integrations without managing servers.
Serverless compute
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Functions, Function App, serverless functions
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Web
premium
App Service logs
Microsoft Learn explains App Service diagnostic logging as settings that collect application logs, web server logs, detailed errors, failed request traces, container logs, and platform resource logs for App Service apps. These logs can be streamed, stored temporarily, written to storage, or routed through Azure Monitor.
App Service diagnostics
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure App Service logs, app service logs
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Analytics
premium
Azure Data Explorer
A fully managed, high-performance analytics service for near-real-time analysis of large telemetry, log, event, and time-series datasets.
Real-time analytics
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADX, Kusto
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL auditing
Azure SQL auditing tracks database events and writes audit logs to supported destinations such as storage, Log Analytics, or Event Hubs.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL audit logs, Azure SQL auditing, SQL auditing, database auditing
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Search service diagnostic logs
Search service diagnostic logs are Azure Monitor resource logs from Azure AI Search that record query, suggest, autocomplete, lookup, indexing, service statistics, and operational events. They are collected in Log Analytics or storage when diagnostic settings are enabled on the search service.
Data operations
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search logs, search resource logs, Microsoft.Search diagnostics, search operation logs, Search diagnostic settings
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI metrics
Azure AI metrics is the measurable signals used to observe Azure AI applications, model endpoints, agents, evaluations, safety checks, and business outcomes.
Azure AI services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AI metrics, AI service metrics, Azure AI Metrics Advisor, Azure Monitor metrics for AI, Metrics Advisor, time series anomaly detection
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Analytics
premium
Data Factory monitoring
The operational view of Data Factory pipeline runs, activity runs, trigger history, integration runtime health, metrics, logs, and alerts.
Data integration and orchestration
Intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Data Factory monitoring, ADF monitoring, data factory monitoring
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage analytics logs
Storage Analytics logs are classic Azure Storage logs that record details about successful and failed requests for Blob, Queue, and Table services. They help troubleshoot request-level behavior, but Azure Monitor storage logs are generally preferred for modern monitoring, querying, alerting, and centralized retention.
Storage monitoring
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: classic storage logs, Azure Storage Analytics logging, storage request logs
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI resource
An Azure OpenAI resource is the Azure control-plane boundary that hosts deployments, endpoints, access, networking, and billing context.
Azure OpenAI
fundamentals
12 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Monitoring and Observability
field-manual-ready
Monitoring Reader
Monitoring Reader is an Azure role that lets users view monitoring data and settings without broad resource management permissions.
Azure Monitor RBAC
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Monitor Reader, Monitoring Reader, monitoring RBAC
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service provides managed access to OpenAI model capabilities through Azure endpoints and enterprise controls.
Generative AI
fundamentals
11 commands
Aliases: Azure OpenAI
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI provides OpenAI model capabilities through Azure resources, deployments, identity, networking, quota, and monitoring controls.
Azure OpenAI
intermediate
8 commands
Aliases: Azure OpenAI Service
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Developer Tools
premium
Azure Developer CLI
An open-source developer command-line tool that accelerates provisioning, deployment, pipeline setup, and monitoring for application resources on Azure.
Developer workflow
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: azd
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Containers
premium
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service is Azure’s managed Kubernetes service for deploying, scaling, and operating containerized applications while Azure manages much of the cluster control plane.
Managed Kubernetes
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: AKS, managed Kubernetes
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Local
Azure Local is Microsoft’s distributed infrastructure solution that extends Azure capabilities to customer-owned environments for local VMs, containers, and selected Azure services through Azure Arc.
Distributed infrastructure
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Stack HCI, Azure Local infrastructure, Arc-enabled local infrastructure
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Databases
premium
Azure Managed Redis
Azure Managed Redis is a Microsoft-managed in-memory data store based on Redis Enterprise, used for low-latency caching, session storage, messaging, and semantic cache scenarios.
Managed cache
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Managed Redis, Redis Enterprise on Azure, Azure Redis Enterprise
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Analytics
premium
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft’s integrated analytics service for enterprise data warehousing, big data, data integration, and exploratory analytics.
Synapse Analytics
intermediate
6 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Foundry
Create a governed project boundary where AI teams can build agents, evaluations, files, and model deployments without unmanaged sprawl.; Compare, evaluate, and approve model deployments before a generative AI feature is
AI platform
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: AI Foundry, Microsoft Foundry, Foundry resource, Foundry project, Azure AI Foundry, azure ai foundry
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search indexer
An Azure AI Search indexer is the automated worker that fills a search index from another data source. Instead of your application pushing every document into Azure AI Search, the indexer pulls from places such as Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or Data Lake Storage. It can map fields, detect changes, crack documents, and run enrichment skills before writing searchable documents. It is useful when source data changes regularly.
AI platform and search
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search indexer, search indexer, indexer, azure-ai-search-indexer
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Databases
premium
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure database service for MySQL workloads with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, and high availability options.
Managed MySQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: MySQL Flexible Server
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Databases
premium
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure PostgreSQL service with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, extensions, and high availability options.
Managed PostgreSQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL Flexible Server
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Analytics
premium
Azure Databricks
A unified, open analytics platform on Azure for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.
Data engineering and AI
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Databricks on Azure
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Analytics
premium
Azure Databricks Unity Catalog
A unified governance layer in Azure Databricks for data and AI assets, including catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models, privileges, and lineage.
Data governance
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog
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DevOps
premium
Azure DevOps organization
The top-level Azure DevOps Services container that connects related projects, users, repositories, pipelines, artifacts, permissions, and organization settings.
Azure DevOps
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure DevOps org
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DevOps
premium
Azure DevOps project
A workspace inside Azure DevOps for a team to plan, track, code, build, test, deploy, and collaborate on software delivery.
Azure DevOps
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ADO project
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Storage
premium
Azure Elastic SAN
A cloud-native Azure storage area network service that provides scalable, cost-effective, high-performance block storage volumes for compute workloads.
Block storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Elastic SAN
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Storage
premium
Azure HPC Cache
Azure HPC Cache was a managed Azure file-caching service for HPC workloads; Microsoft retired the service on September 30, 2025, so current work should focus on migration or historical inventory.
Retired HPC caching
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: HPC Cache, Azure Storage Cache
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Analytics
premium
Azure integration runtime
Azure integration runtime is the compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines to move data, dispatch activities, and connect across network environments.
Data integration compute
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Integration Runtime, IR, ADF integration runtime
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Management and Governance
premium
Azure Lighthouse
Azure Lighthouse enables secure delegated management of Azure resources across customer tenants, supporting service providers and central teams with scalable cross-tenant governance.
Delegated resource management
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Lighthouse, delegated resource management, Microsoft Managed Services delegation
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is a cloud service for managing the machine learning lifecycle, including workspaces, data, training jobs, model deployment, monitoring, and MLOps.
Machine learning operations
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Azure ML, AML, Machine Learning workspace
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Storage
premium
Azure Managed Lustre
Azure Managed Lustre is a managed parallel file system for high-performance computing and AI workloads that need scalable, low-latency file storage in Azure.
Parallel file systems
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Managed Lustre, Azure Managed Lustre File System, AMLFS
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Migration
premium
Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate helps organizations discover, assess, plan, and migrate servers, databases, web apps, virtual desktops, and other workloads to Azure with reduced risk.
Migration planning
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Migrate, Azure Migrate hub, migration assessment
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Management and Governance
premium
Azure reservation
An Azure reservation is a one-year or three-year commitment that provides discounted pricing for eligible Azure resource usage.
Cost Management
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Reservations, Azure reservation, reservation order, reserved capacity, reserved instance
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Azure Resource Health
Azure Resource Health reports current and past health for individual Azure resources and helps diagnose service-impacting problems.
Operational hygiene
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Resource Health, Azure resource health status, Resource Health, resource availability status
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Management and Governance
premium
Azure savings plan
An Azure savings plan provides discounted pricing on eligible compute usage when you commit to an hourly spend for one or three years.
Cost Management
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure savings plan, Azure savings plans, compute savings plan, savings plan for compute
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Migration
premium
Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery helps provide disaster recovery by managing replication, failover, and failback for supported workloads.
Disaster recovery
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ASR, Azure Site Recovery, Azure disaster recovery, Site Recovery
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Storage
premium
Azure Site Recovery vault
An Azure Site Recovery vault is a Recovery Services vault used to manage replication, failover, and recovery metadata for Site Recovery.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ASR vault, Azure Site Recovery vault, Recovery Services vault, Site Recovery Recovery Services vault
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL active geo-replication
Azure SQL active geo-replication creates readable secondary databases in other regions for database-level disaster recovery and failover.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL active geo-replication, SQL geo-replication, active geo-replication, geo-secondary database
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