Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Account
This SAM application monitor template contains performance and statistics counters for monitoring Azure blob accounts.
Passwords for legacy Microsoft Azure application monitor templates and related application monitors are stored as plain text in the SolarWinds Platform database. SolarWinds recommends switching to Microsoft Azure API poller templates that leverage OAuth 2.0 authorization.”
Prerequisites
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PowerShell module (Azure, AzureRM) is installed before using this template.
To install the Azure module, execute these PowerShell commands:
Install-Module -Name Azure
Install-Module -Name AzureRM
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To connect with the Azure account, you'll need the SubscriptionID, ApplicationID, TenantID, and Secret Key.
Any Azure App (with its name and ID) having minimum role as Read Only -
Blob Account name for which metrics are being calculated.
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PowerShell 5.0 or later.
Credentials
- Login credential to access the Azure Portal, passed as script arguments per prerequisites (<SubscriptionID>, <TenantID>, <ApplicationID>, value=<Secret Key>, <Blob Account Name>).
- Optional parameters can be passed to script argument:
- value=<Time Interval> - during which data must be fetched, in minutes. The default is 1 hour.
- Number of retries as the second last argument; the default is 3.
- WaitTime as the last argument; the default is 0.5 seconds
Notes
- Run scripts with Administrator privilege on target system.
- The ApplicationID with which you are connecting to the Azure portal must be registered in Azure Active Directory as contributor role for the monitored application. See Add an Azure Active Directory app for cloud monitoring in the SolarWinds Platform.
- For reference, see
- Supported metrics with Azure Monitor. (© 2019 Microsoft Corp., available at https://docs.microsoft.com, obtained on May 8, 2019)
- This template was tested with AzureRM Module 6.9.0.
Component monitors
Storage Account - Total Transactions
This monitor provides the number of requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation. This number includes successful and failed requests, as well as requests which produced errors.
Unit: Count
Storage Account - Billable Transactions
This monitor provides the number of requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation. This number includes successful and failed requests, as well as requests which produced errors.
Unit: Count
Storage Account - Egress
This monitor provides the amount of egress data, in Megabytes. This number includes egress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable egress.
Unit: Megabytes
Storage Account - Ingress
This monitor provides the amount of ingress data, in Megabytes. This number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure.
Unit: Megabytes
Storage Account - Availability
This monitor provides the percentage of availability for the storage service. Availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation.
Unit: Percent
Storage Account - Success E2E Latency
This monitor provides the average end-to-end latency of successful requests. This value includes the required processing time within Azure Storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response.
Unit: Milliseconds
Storage Account - Success Server Latency
This monitor provides the average latency used by Azure Storage to process a successful request in milliseconds. This value does not include the network latency specified in AverageE2ELatency.
Unit: Milliseconds
Blob Services - Blob Capacity
This monitor provides the amount of storage used by the storage account’s Blob service in Megabytes.
Unit: Megabytes
Blob Services - Container Count
This monitor provides the number of containers in the storage account’s Blob service.
Unit: Count
Blob Services - Blob Count
This monitor provides the number of Blob in the storage account’s Blob service.
Unit: Count
File Services - File Capacity
The amount of storage used by the storage account’s File service in Megabytes.
Unit: Megabytes
File Services - File Count
This monitor provides the number of files in the storage account’s File service.
Unit: Count
File Services - File Share Count
This monitor provides the number of file shares in the storage account’s File service.
Unit: Count
Queue Services - Queue Capacity
This monitor provides the amount of storage used by the storage account’s Queue service in Megabytes.
Unit: Megabytes
Queue services - Queue Count
This monitor provides the number of queue(s) in the storage account’s Queue service.
Unit: Count
Queue services - Queue Message Count
This monitor provides the approximate number of queue messages in the storage account’s Queue service.
Unit: Count
Table Services - Table Capacity
This monitor provides the amount of storage used by the storage account’s Table service in Megabytes.
Unit: Megabytes