Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Front Door metrics

Azure Front Door is a scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global web applications. Use the Azure Resource Manager to gather metrics for this resource, then ensure your cloud platform is configured in SolarWinds Observability SaaS to collect this resource type's data. See Add an Azure cloud account.

Depending on the subscription pricing tier of your Azure account or its resources, additional metrics may be available for this entity. To collect additional Azure metrics, select the premium pricing tier when configuring your Azure namespaces.

Many of the collected metrics from Azure Front Door entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the Azure Front Door metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type azure.frontdoor in the search box.

MetricUnitsDescription
sw.metrics.healthscore Percent (%)

Health score. A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction.

To view the health score for Azure Front Door entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select azurefrontdoor.

azure.frontdoor.backend_health_percentage Percent (%)

BackendHealthPercentage. The average percentage of successful health probes from AFD to origin.

azure.frontdoor.backend_request_count Count

BackendRequestCount. The total number of requests sent from AFD to origin.

azure.frontdoor.backend_request_latencymilliseconds (ms)

BackendRequestLatency. The average time calculated from when the request was sent by AFD edge to the backend until AFD received the last response byte from the backend.

azure.frontdoor.billable_response_size bytes

BillableResponseSize. The total number of billable bytes (minimum 2KB per request) sent as responses from HTTP/S proxy to clients.

azure.frontdoor.request_countCount

RequestCount. The total number of client requests served by CDN.

azure.frontdoor.request_sizebytes

RequestSize. The total number of bytes sent as requests from clients to AFD.

azure.frontdoor.response_sizebytes

ResponseSize. The total number of bytes sent as responses from Front Door to clients.

azure.frontdoor.total_latencymilliseconds (ms)

TotalLatency. The average time from the client request being received by CDN until the last response byte is sent from CDN to the client.

azure.frontdoor.web_application_firewall_request_countCount

WebApplicationFirewallRequestCount. The total number of matched WAF requests.