Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Question

Azure Monitor Container insights deploys a monitoring agent as a DaemonSet on every node in an AKS cluster. The agent automatically collects node, pod, and container metrics (such as CPU and memory), counts restarts and OOM events, and exposes a live data view in the Azure portal. All data is sent to a Log Analytics workspace, which can be shared by multiple clusters-even when those clusters reside in different subscriptions-giving operations a single place to run queries and create alerts.

Instrumenting each microservice with the Application Insights SDK would meet the telemetry requirement but violates the no-code-change constraint and is focused on application traces rather than Kubernetes platform health. VM insights targets virtual machines and scale sets, not Kubernetes objects, so it cannot provide pod or container-level visibility. Streaming metrics and logs to Azure Event Hubs could centralize raw data, but you would still need additional services (such as Stream Analytics and custom dashboards) to parse, store, and visualize Kubernetes-specific information and to implement alerts, and it does not provide the built-in live pod view available in Container insights.