Exercise: Monitor a load balancer resource using Azure monitor

Lab scenario

In this exercise, you create an internal load balancer for the fictional Contoso Ltd organization. Next you create a Log Analytics workspace, and use Azure Monitor Insights to view information about your internal load balancer. Lastly, you configure the load balancer's diagnostic settings to send metrics to the Log Analytics workspace.

Architecture diagram

Job skills

• Create a virtual network.
• Create the load balancer.
• Create a backend pool.
• Create a health probe.
• Create a load balancer rule.
• Create backend servers.
• Add virtual machines to the backend pool.
• Install IIS on the VMs.
• Test the load balancer.
• Create a Log Analytics Workspace.
• Use the Functional Dependency View.
• View detailed metrics.
• View resource health status.
• Configure diagnostic settings.

Launch the exercise, and follow the instructions. When finished, be sure to return to this page so you can continue learning.