You have an Azure Blob storage account.
The storage account has an alert that is configured to indicate when the Availability metric falls below 100 percent.
You receive an alert for the Availability metric. The logs for the storage account show that requests are failing because of a ServerTimeoutError error.
What does ServerTimeoutError indicate?
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A. B. C. D.D
The ServerTimeoutError is an error that occurs when a server takes too long to respond to a client request. In the case of an Azure Blob storage account, the error occurs when the server fails to respond to a client request within the timeout period set by the client.
In the context of the given scenario, the ServerTimeoutError is the reason for the failing requests and the trigger for the Availability metric alert. This means that the server is taking too long to respond to requests, causing them to fail and resulting in a decrease in the availability of the storage account.
Option A, "Read and write storage requests exceeded capacity," is incorrect because it suggests that the storage account is overloaded with requests, which is not necessarily the case. While an overloaded storage account can cause requests to fail, the ServerTimeoutError specifically indicates that the server is not responding within the timeout period.
Option B, "A transient server timeout occurred while the service was moved to a different partition to load balance requests," is also incorrect because it suggests that the server is undergoing maintenance or migration, which is not relevant to the given scenario.
Option C, "A client application attempted to perform an operation and did not have valid credentials," is incorrect because it suggests that the error is caused by authentication issues, which is not relevant to the given scenario.
Option D, "There was excessive network latency between a client application and the storage account," is also incorrect because it suggests that the error is caused by network issues, which is not relevant to the given scenario.
Therefore, the correct answer is B, which is a server-side issue that causes the server to take too long to respond to client requests.