Azure Monitor Integration Technical Reference

Overview

The Azure Monitor integration enables you to retrieve all metrics and logs available in your Azure Monitor setup and display them as dataviews in Geneos.

The integration provides a Gateway configuration file that enables monitoring of Azure Monitor through a set of pre-configured Toolkit samplers. You can query and list the available metrics for your environment and running instances.

This technical reference provides information on the metrics and dataviews for the samplers available through the Azure Monitor integration. If you are setting up the integration for the first time, see the Azure Monitor Integration User Guide.

Audience

This technical reference is intended for users who are monitoring data from the Azure Monitor environment. If you are setting up the integration for the first time, see the Azure Monitor Integration User Guide.

Environment variables

The azureMonitoring.xml script provides the variables that are set in the Environments section. They are configured to ensure that the integration monitors your target Azure Monitor environment.

Variable	Type	Description
AZURE_TENANT_ID	String	Your tenant ID from the service principal (this is called tenant in the Azure environment).
AZURE_CLIENT_ID	String	Your client ID from the service principal (this is called appId in the Azure environment).
AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET	String	Your password from the service principal (this is called password in the Azure environment).
AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID	String	Your subscription ID from your Azure account.
AZURE_RESOURCE_ID	String	The resource ID for your Azure appliance when viewing metrics.
AZURE_METRIC_INT	String	The interval in which your data is based on.
GET_AZURE_METRIC_NAMES	String	Variable used to list out the metric names and their units.
AZURE_SAMPLING_RATE	Integer	Frequency of sampling. If checks are executed manually, the value is shown as `0`.
PYTHON_PATH	String	Path of the Python library located on the machine where the Netprobeis running.

Command line options

Command line options can be used along with the Environment variables.

Option (long)	Option (short)	Type	Description
--list-res-names	-lr	Boolean	List names, location and details of your Azure account resource groups.
--list-res-metrics	-lm	Boolean	List metrics for a particular VM.
--list-db-servers	-lds	Boolean	List database servers information.
--list-databases	-db	Boolean	List databases information.
--list-networks	-lvn	Boolean	List virtual networks.
--list-interfaces	-lvi	Boolean	List virtual interfaces.
--list-load-balancers	-llb	Boolean	List your load balancers.
--list-storage-accounts	-lsa	Boolean	List your storage accounts.
--list-cosmosdb-accounts	-lca	Boolean	List your CosmosDB accounts.
--get-powerstate	-gp	Boolean	Powerstate is not automatically shown on VM view listing, this option makes calls to each VM status directly.

Metrics and dataviews

The sections below show example dataviews available with the Azure Monitor integration.

Note: Samplers make multiple HTTP queries to build one single dataview. Depending on the API response time, and the number of items in the dataview, these samplers can take longer to run than most Geneos samplers.