A team sets an Azure Monitor alert on CPU > 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which alert type is this?

1. A Log alert
2. ✓ B Metric alert (static threshold) (correct answer)
3. C Activity log alert
4. D Smart detection alert

Shortcut: Metric alerts evaluate numeric metric values against a static or dynamic threshold. They are near-real-time (evaluated every 1 minute by default). Log alerts query Log Analytics on a schedule.