Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Load Balancer metrics

With Azure Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create high availability for your services. Load Balancer supports inbound and outbound scenarios, provides low latency and high throughput, and scales up to millions of flows for all TCP and UDP 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.

Many of the collected metrics from the Azure Load Balancer resource are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability custom and pre-built dashboards; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer.

This topic lists some of the metrics collected for the resource. To see the Azure Load Balancer metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type azure.lb in the search box.

Name Units Description
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 Load Balancer entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select azureloadbalancer.

azure.lb.vip_availability Count Average Load Balancer data path availability per time duration.
azure.lb.dip_availability Count Average Load Balancer health probe status per time duration.
azure.lb.bytes bytes Total number of Bytes transmitted within time period.
azure.lb.packets Count Total number of Packets transmitted within time period.
azure.lb.syns Count Total number of SYN Packets transmitted within time period.
azure.lb.snat_connections Count Total number of new SNAT connections created within time period.
azure.lb.allocated_snat_ports Count Total number of SNAT ports allocated within time period.
azure.lb.used_snat_ports Count Total number of SNAT ports used within time period.