microsoft azure cloud services monitoring

What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a Cloud Computing service operated by Microsoft for application management via Microsoft-managed data-centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

Created in 2010, Microsoft Azure uses large-scale virtualization at datacenters worldwide to offer more than 600 services including Mobile Services, Storage, Communication, etc.

Microsoft Azure monitoring

This package automatically configures the ServicePilot Agent in order to monitor availability and performance of Microsoft Azure with the Microsoft API.

The ServicePilot cloud-azure package can be configured to collect metrics from the following Azure resources:

• Resource Health
• Costs
• Key Vault
• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Disks
• Network Public IP Addresses
• Network Interfaces
• Network Load Balancer
• Storage
• SQL Server
• PostGres Flexible Server
• PostGres Single Server
• Web Service Plan
• Web Application
• Function
• Application Gateway
• Kubernetes Service

API call rate limits

Due to rate limits imposed by Microsoft, ServicePilot recommends limiting the use of this package to elements that cannot be monitored by using other ServicePilot packages. Monitor the WebAPI usage objects to see how many web requests are sent to Microsoft and how many fail. Note the rate limits apply per tenant, per source IP address and per application.

How to install a microsoft-azure resource?

1. Use your ServicePilot OnPremise installation or a SaaS account.
2. Add a new microsoft-azure resource via the web interface (/prmviews or /prmresources) or via API (/prmpackages page), the default ServicePilot agent or another agent will be provisioned automatically.

Details of the microsoft-azure package are located in the /prmpackages page of the software.

Benefits

ServicePilot enables you to deliver IT services faster and more securely with automated discovery and advanced monitoring features.

By correlating the technology MICROSOFT AZURE with APM and infrastructure monitoring, ServicePilot is able to provide a more comprehensive view of an organization's IT environment.

This allows IT teams to quickly identify and diagnose issues that may be impacting application performance, and take corrective action before end-users are affected.

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