Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

Microsoft Azure SQL Server Database Elastic Pool

This SAM application monitor template contains metrics for monitoring SQL Server Database Elastic Pool. Some counters may require manual configuration, such as setting up installation-specific instances or correcting thresholds for your environment.

Microsoft AzureRM was deprecated on February 29, 2024. To use the Az module templates, uninstall the AzureRM module and install the Az module. To install the Azure Az module, refer to: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps?view=azps-7.1.0.

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

  • PowerShell modules (Az, Az.Accounts, Az.Resources) installed

  • Parameters for connecting to your Azure account

    • Subscription ID

    • Application ID

    • Tenant ID

    • Secret Key

  • Any Azure App (with its name and ID) having minimum role as Read Only

  • SQL Server Database Elastic Pool name for which metrics are being calculated

  • PowerShell 5.1 or later

Credentials

  • Windows Administrator privileges on the target system
  • Login credential to access the Azure Portal, passed as script arguments per prerequisites (<SubscriptionID>, <TenantID>, <ApplicationID>, value=<Secret Key>, <SQL Server Database Name>).
  • Optional parameters can be passed to script argument:
    • Time interval for which data has to be fetched (in hours).
    • Number of retries as the second last argument; the default is 3 retries.
    • WaitTime as the last argument; the default is 0.5 seconds.

Notes

Component monitors

CPU percentage

This metric provides the average compute utilization in percentage of the limit of the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the Polling Frequency.

Unit: Percent

DTU percentage

This monitor provides the average eDTU utilization in percentage of eDTU limit of the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the Polling Frequency.

Unit: Percent

eDTU (Database Throughput Unit) limit

This metric provides the current average elastic pool DTU setting for the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the Polling Frequency.

Unit: Count

eDTU (Database Throughput Unit) used

This metric provides the average eDTUs used by the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the Polling Frequency.

Unit: Count

Log IO percentage

This metric provides the average write resource utilization in percentage of the limit of the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the Polling Frequency.

Unit: Percent

Data IO percentage

This metric provides the average I/O utilization in percentage based on the limit of the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the polling frequency.

Unit: Percent

Sessions percentage

This metric provides the average concurrent sessions in percentage based on the limit of the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the polling frequency.

Unit: Percent

Storage limit

This metric provides the current average elastic pool storage limit setting for the given SQL database pool in megabytes during the time period specified as the polling frequency.

Unit: Bytes

Storage percentage

This metric provides the current average elastic pool storage used percentage for the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the polling frequency.

Unit: Percent

Storage used

This metric provides the average storage used by the pool in bytes during the time period specified as the polling frequency.

Unit: Bytes

Workers percentage

This metric provides the average concurrent workers (requests) in percentage based on the limit of the given SQL database pool during the time period specified as the polling frequency.

Unit: Percent