I have an application installed on a VM that publishes a page via OData.
I need to be able to trigger a high urgency alert based on one specific value published by the page.
I am little aware of Application Insights to monitor applications in Azure. But I am not sure if there is a way to read the data from the API and trigger an alert.
What options do I have to accomplish this in Azure?
Pls allow me to share my idea here.
creating app insights alert
enable app insights for azure vm
First, adding app insights to your application can made AI to capture your requests, dependencies, logs and some other messages, including calling API.
In my thoughts, I can log the response message of the API and set alert for some specific keywords. I created an azure function, and it will call MS graph API when triggered, and log the response. This function has integrated AI, so I created an alert by kql:
traces
| where timestamp > ago(30m) and message contains "xxx"
and set alert rule based on number of results greater than 0. When the alert was triggered, it will send email to my mailbox to mention me.
This means any time my API returned the response contains specific words, I will receive an email about it.
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I am working on Azure web API which uses Log4Net Application Insight appender to track traces. We are planning to use the Application Insight SDK directly (TrackTrace(), TrackEvent()) in order to use built-in alerting features.
However it does seem like, Azure is not supporting trace or event alerts but only metric alerts. So we got some issue there.
If I go one step back, web API is invoked by number of Logic Apps runs in x time intervals. Logic App simply calls web API (business logic is here) and it log all information/managed exceptions.
The main requirement is to be proactive when an exception happens like sending a mail to technical inbox. Secondary requirement is notify sources, if it got any data issues.
Any suggestion on our approach please, what we can do more to fulfill our requirements?
Please refer to this App Insights Exception Alerts. It is possible to set alerts for rates of exceptions in a defined time period.
Set up Exception alerts
You can also invoke webhooks to perform additional actions when the alert is fired.
Thanks Sreejit for your suggestion.
To conclude the answer, what's the preferred engine to process alerts please, through application insight or log analytics?
application insight only support metric alerts only, so the application exceptions need to be flagged as custom metrics as opposed to traces.
[TelemetryClient --> TrackTrace() vs TrackMetric()]
If we go for log analytics, we can use custom events. Then use alert management solution in OMS workspace. Perhaps even use of a separate logic app to built the logic of sending alerts.
[TelemetryClient --> TrackEvent()]
I'm trying to figure out how I can set up Email/Text alerts for custom requests inside application insights.
I have a number of different custom requests that are uniquely identified by a property in application insights. I can filter on these properties in the Metrics Explorer and even create graphs of the server response time for these specific requests. However I cant figure out how to set an alert if the server response time (for this individual custom request) goes over a certain threshold.
I've tried added a new metric alert rule but the only Metric that is relevant in the drop down in Server Response Time but there appears to be no way to specify this to a specific type of request as identified by a property on the request.
Would anyone know if this is currently possible in application insights and possibly be able to point me in the right direction.
Thanks for your help.
There are two options:
1) Call TrackMetric (provide some metric name) when particular request happens. Then configure alert based on this metric.
2) Write a tool/service/azure function which every few minutes runs a query in Application Insights Analytics and posts result as metric (using TrackMetric). Then configure alert from portal.
Right now AI team is working on providing #2 out of the box.
I've recently been playing around with the Bing's image search api, however I have a concern I hope to resolve.
It is to do with the limit on the number of api requests that are allowed per month. After doing some reading it seems like if I were to exceed this limit, my Azure account would be billed depending on the number of api calls I have gone over my limit. Is it possible to set up some kind of alert through the Azure management portal that will stop the api from processing any more calls once a specific threshold has been passed?
If anyone has any experience using the Search api and can enlighten me, that would be great.
Try Metrics Monitoring. Go to the service within Azure Portal, Scroll Down to Monitoring -> Metrics and then click Add Metric Alert.
You can create an alert based on the number of successful calls or total calls and the alert can notify you via e-mail. Additionally, if you want to take action automatically after reaching the threshold, you can use Webhooks to make a call out to a web application or Azure Automation Runbook to automatically run PowerShell scripts or some code to prevent overuse. You can also use Logic Apps for that. Check the following link for further details and examples at the end of the page:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/insights-webhooks-alerts
i have question regarding Azure API Management again : ).
i am using API management which is API Gateway doing HTTPS to Azure Storage REST API directly
and is there any way that i cant get email notification when there are massive requests or high latency at response ??
Thanx for reading : )
You can configure alert notifications either in the portal or via the REST API or .NET SDK to monitor for specific Azure Storage Metrics that you want.
See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/insights-receive-alert-notifications/ for more details.
For massive requests, you might want to consider using "TotalRequests" or "TotalBillableRequests" in a specific time period.
For high response latency, you can track "AverageE2ELatency" or "AverageServerLatency" in a specific time period.
See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-monitoring-diagnosing-troubleshooting/#monitoring-performance for more details on these specific metrics and how they relate to performance monitoring.
Hope this helps.
Sriprasad's answer makes sense for configuration from the Storage side. From the API Management side, you cannot currently set a notification on any event other than the built-in ones (subscription requests, new subscriptions, application gallery requests, new issues/comments, approaching of user subscription quota limit).
You can use Log-To-Eventhub policy to log a message to event hub for every request and consume it in a custom or third party solution like AppInsights/Runscopee to fire an alert.
Refer
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/api-management-log-to-eventhub-sample/
If your requirement is to get report/metrics from API Management you can use the management rest api's for APIM.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn781421.aspx
Specifically you might want to look at reportByAPI (which gives you useful metrics in response like callcounts, apiTimeAvg) based on which you can setup alerts/email notification.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn781421.aspx#ReportByAPI
I want to make a dashboard which shows the status of our Azure services bus queues and displays the history for "messages added to queue", "length of queue" and "messages processed" etc. Using the Azure Management Portal, I can see that most of these statistics manually for each queue.
Is there any way to get access to the data that is displayed in the Management Portal through one of the APIs as I want to combine the data from number of queues that we use into a single interface. I have searched in vain but I don't want to log my own statistics as that seems like redoing a task that Microsoft already perform.
Currently with REST API all I can see is how to get the current approximate count of messages in the queue.
There is an API for this now (wasn't back when the OP created the thread):
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/azure/dn163589.aspx (REST)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt348562.aspx (.NET)
Also, I believe it should be available via Azure Insights API:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.azure.insights.aspx
It is possible to fetch the Count of Messages in a Queue, Incoming Messages, Outgoing Messages with the help of the latest Azure Monitor Metrics, with which you can build you own Dashboard. Or you can make use of the Azure Monitor in Azure portal, which allows you to configure dashboards and alerts.