Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability and is also available in a standalone module, Server & Application Monitor (SAM). Hybrid Cloud Observability and SAM are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online

This SAM application monitor template shows information about Office 365 SharePoint Online and includes the following component monitors:

  • Site Name & Count
  • Site Status
  • Storage Used by Site
  • Storage Allocated to Site
  • Number of Page View
  • Number of files on Site

Tip: Consider using one of the new SAM API Poller templates designed for Microsoft 365 instead of legacy application monitor templates.

Prerequisites

  • The following component monitors use the PowerShell SharePoint Online Module:
    • Site Name & Count
    • Site Status
    • Storage Used by Site
    • Storage Allocated to Site

    To install the PowerShell SharePoint Online Module, execute Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell in your PowerShell console. To verify installation, run Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name "*SharePoint*.

  • Review component monitor descriptions below for additional requirements. For example, some require an Organization Name (orgName=<Value>) argument.
  • Configure the following monitors to use the Microsoft Graph API to fetch data; see Integrate Office 365 application monitor templates with Microsoft Graph in SAM:
    • Number of Page View
    • Number of Files on Site

Credentials

  • An SolarWinds Platform account with SAM administrator permissions.
  • An all-in-one, inclusive Office 365 account with Global Administrator privileges.

    Alternatively, use an account with an admin role that has permission to access data to be monitored via the Office 365 API.

    • Use UPN format (username@domain) — not domain\username format to enter credentials.

    To avoid authentication issues if passwords change, use a service account.

User can pass credentials as arguments to included component monitors, as described next.

Portions of this topic are based on What is the SharePoint Online Management Shell?, Overview of Microsoft Graph, and Working with Office 365 usage reports in Microsoft Graph (© 2019 Microsoft Corp., available at docs.microsoft.com, obtained on May 8, 2019).

Component monitors

Site Name & Count

Get the count of the sites and return all site names in message.

Arguments: Organization Name

Format: OrgName=<value>

Statistic Unit: Number

Site Status

Get the status of a particular site.

Argument: Organization Name, Site URL

Format: orgName=<value>, siteName=<value>

Output: 0 – In-active, 1 – Active

Statistic Unit: Boolean (0 or 1)

Storage Used by Site

Get the storage of the site used, in gigabytes. The monitor returns the storage of all the sites. To get the storage of a specific site, pass the site name in the argument.

Argument: Organization Name, Site URL (Optional)

Format: orgName=<value>, siteName=<value>

Statistic Unit: GB

Storage Allocated to Site

Get the storage allocated to a particular site.

Argument: Organization Name, Site URL

Format: orgName=<value>, siteName=<value>

Statistic Unit: GB

Number of Page View

Get the number of pages viewed across all sites.

Argument: Client ID, Tenant ID, Client Password

Format: client_id=<Value>, TenantID=<Value>, client_secret=<Value>

Statistic Unit: Number

Number of files on Site

Get the total number of files across all sites.

Argument: Client ID, Tenant ID, Client Password

Format: client_id=<Value>, TenantID=<Value>, client_secret=<Value>

Statistic Unit: Number