Cloud - Azure Opspack

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft that provides on-demand cloud services to individuals, companies and governments across the world for building, testing, deploying and managing applications and services through Microsoft managed data centers.

What You Can Monitor Copied

This Opspack provides several Host Templates, allowing you to monitor various Azure Cloud Resources, such as Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts and Load Balancers, as well as many others.

Host Templates Copied

The following Host Templates are currently provided by this Opspack. Click the name of each Host Template to be taken to the relevant information page, including a full Service Check description and usage instructions.

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Setup Microsoft Azure for Monitoring Copied

To monitor your Azure environment, you need to configure it for monitoring. This requires Administrator access on Azure.

You need to retrieve the following credentials, which will allow Opsview Monitor access to the metrics provided by Azure:

• Subscription ID
• Tenant/Directory ID
• Client/Application ID
• Secret Key

Follow the steps below to retrieve this information.

Find the Subscription ID Copied

The Subscription ID can be found in the Subscriptions section under the General section of the All services menu in the Azure dashboard.

Find the Tenant/Directory ID Copied

Navigate to the Security section under All services in the Azure dashboard. The Tenant/Directory ID can then be found in the Azure Active Directory menu in the Properties section.

Find the Client/Application ID for your application Copied

You need to create and register your application if you haven’t already. For more information, refer to: Create an Azure Active Directory application

Navigate to the Security section under All services in the Azure dashboard. The Client/Application ID can be found in the Azure Active Directory menu under the App registrations section in the Azure dashboard.

Generate the Secret Key for your application Copied

You will need to create a Secret Key for your application, once this has been created its value will be hidden, so save the value during creation.

To create the Secret Key, select your application from the list, select the Certificates and secrets section and then click on New client secret.

Specify a description and expiration date for your key and then click Add.

Find the Resource Group Copied

You will need the name of your Resource Group in order to monitor the resources inside of it. The Resource Groups can be found in the Resource Groups section, found in All services. Here we can find the names of Resource Groups that we have already created or create new ones.

Find your Resource Name Copied

You will need the name your Resource in order to monitor it. The Resources can be found in the All resources section, found in All services. Here we can find the names of the Resources that we have already created or create new ones.

Here you can see 3 different Resources with their names highlighted. Note that we don’t require the details in the brackets that follow certain resources.