Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Azure cloud platform monitoring

To monitor Azure resources from your cloud platform, integrate SolarWinds Observability SaaS with your cloud account. To provide additional resource information, add the SolarWinds Observability Agent to your cloud platform.

Depending on the way your cloud platform or its resources were configured, some metrics may not be available. Use the Azure Resource Manager to gather metrics for an Azure resource.

The metrics available may also depend on the subscription pricing tier of your cloud platform or its resources. For some Azure metrics, the premium pricing tier would need to be selected when configuring your Azure namespaces.

See Overview of Event Hubs Premium for details about the Premium pricing tier for the Event Hub resources, and Configure processing units for a premium tier Azure Event Hubs namespace for how to set up your Event Hub namespace with the premium tier.

The exact pricing tier requirements and instructions may vary by Azure resource.

For a summary of your Azure accounts connected to SolarWinds Observability SaaS click Infrastructure in the left panel and click the Azure tab. The Infrastructure area overview shows the health of all Azure entities and a summary table of your connected accounts, as well as other widgets that offer quick insights into your monitored Azure resources. Azure resources that provide cloud hosting are also summarized alongside other hosts in the Infrastructure area overview. See Host monitoring.

Metrics for Azure entities are also available as widgets in the Entity Explorer, meanwhile metrics for other Azure resources that are not entities can be found in pre-built dashboards. Azure resources that provide cloud hosting can also be found under the host category in the Entity Explorer.

Azure entities

When the following Azure resources are enabled in the Azure integration, an entity is created in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

Entities are created for each Azure resource, and the display name of these entities are the Azure storage account names. However, Azure storage accounts can contain multiple resources. As a result, the Entity Explorer contains two entities with identical names for the Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files entity types.

Other Azure resources

Entities are not created for all Azure resources, but data may still be collected. When the following Azure resources are enabled in the Azure integration, metric data is consumed and available in the Metrics Explorer. The metrics can also be added to custom dashboards and are included in some pre-built dashboards.

  • Azure Network Interfaces
  • Azure Public IP Addresses
  • Azure Storage

Azure widgets

In addition to standard visualizations of Azure resource metric data, the following widgets display detailed insights into your cloud accounts.

Details

On the Overview tab, the Details widget shows different information, depending on the specific type of Azure account selected in the Entity Explorer. Details may include cloud provider, account IDs and status, the native state, tags, and more.

Active Alerts

An overview of the active alerts triggered by Azure, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts.

Top 5 Services by Critical Alerts

On the Entities tab, this widget shows five Azure services with the most critical alerts.

Top 5 Regions by Entities

On the entities tab, this widget shows five regions associated the most with the monitored Azure entities.

Top 10 Regions by Entities Count

On the Entities tab, this widget shows ten regions associated the most with the monitored Azure entities.

Top 10 Services by Entities Count

On the Entities tab, this widget shows ten services used most by the monitored Azure entities.

Azure alert templates

You can use pre-filled alert templates to create alerts related to your Azure entities. Alert templates are suggested within the onboarding wizard. When adding Azure entities, the wizard lists all Azure-related alert templates for you to choose from.

You can also create Azure alerts from alert templates through the Alert Settings page in SolarWinds Observability SaaS, or manage your Azure-specific alerts on the Alerts tab of Cloud Account details page in the Entity Explorer.