Right now I'm limited to using only Azure dashboards for reporting on resources. A dashboard I need to create is one where only the resource health of my resources is displayed the way it is displayed by going to Dashboard->Monitor->Service Health. I need to be able to choose only my resource types and have them display in a nice list with a green arrow for up and that red X for down. Is this possible to do from inside the portal? It's imperative that those that use the dashboard do not have to click anything to see the healthy/unhealthy status. I basically need the list below, but for all of my resources, not just AKS.
Thanks!
I actually found the answer, it's in preview. Create a workbook and add a query. In the query, choose "Azure Health (preview)", for the resource type choose "Subscription" and BOOM!, there it is. This was easier than I thought, I just had to do some heavy digging. I hope this helps other people trying to do this. Oh, and I pinned this to a dashboard and everyone was thrilled.
Interesting ask indeed. AFAIK, pinning Azure Resource Health filtered by resource type to the Azure Dashboard is not supported as of today. Also, I noticed that the pin icon atop the page only creates a shortcut to Azure Service issues but not to the Resource Health blade.
You can submit your suggestion to the Azure Service Health Product Group through their feedback forum, or upvote this similar idea.
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I have below two questions can someone help on them.
1.Is there a script or a way to create custom alert format for azure alerts?
2.Is there a way to pin all the azure VM status to dashboard?
Regarding #1, the feature to customize or configure alert email format is currently not supported. If interested, I suggest you to raise your feedback / feature request here in UserVoice / feedback forum. Responsible product / feature team would triage / start checking feasibility and would prioritize the feedback.
Regarding #2, If 'status' is meant as 'PowerState' (i.e., status of VM whether it is running, deallocated, etc.) or if it's meant as 'StatusCode' (i.e., ok, etc.) or if it's meant as 'ProvisioningState' (i.e., succeeded, etc.) then I don't think we have straight-forward way for it so that we can ingest that particular data directly to dashboard but said that, you may just leverage 'Heartbeat' Log Analytics Kusto table at first place and create a custom view as dashboard using view designer but as views in Azure Monitor are being phased out and replaced with workbooks so I suggest leveraging these workbooks now.
If not, you may leverage a new feature called as Azure Monitor for VMs which basically helps to analyze the performance and health of your Windows and Linux VMs, and monitor their processes and dependencies on other resources and external processes. Here again, you can create interactive reports Azure Monitor for VMs with VM insights workbooks.
Hope these inputs helps!
We have Azure environment with 3 different subscription and around 5 project resources are deployed in this environment.
Each project team has rights to create resources under specific Resource Group (RG) within Azure.
Now from Azure Admin perspective, i would like to know Who, When
This is basic requirements for any organization to track their cost, resource information. When i looked in Azure, this information is not available directly at resource level.
Few posts are mentioning to use Tagging for this or use logs (2 years back, really?)? Is it? I am surprised.
Can i use Application Insight for this? or only available for App Service kind of services?
Please help me to get this information in efficient way
Your only option is to implement some sort of logging (like poll Azure Subscription events) and save it somewhere. You can use Azure Monitor to achieve that rather easily. But by itself Azure doesnt offer anything like that out of the box.
you can use tagging, but with obvious challenges. logs only go 3 months back.
In our landscape we've got a couple of web application gateways deployed with probes set-up to back-end services. In the resource panes of the gateways there is the "Backend Health" option that you can use to check the health state of your back-ends, which is very nice.
Now we were building some dashboards and we wanted to include the same status overview on one of those. I couldn't find a way to do that. Of course there's Azure monitor which you can use to also check the status but I'd then have two solutions doing exactly the same thing just because I need the data to surface on a dashboard. That doesn't feel right.
So the question is; does anyone know of a better way to do this, or am I really bound to the alternative option of monitoring twice?
You can create Alerts if the probes goes down. As of now, Probe health is not exposed to Dashboards. Please raise a User voice to get it added in the future: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/34192--general-feedback?query=dashboard
I just read a small post of #pierreroman with the title Azure Cloud Service VS Azure Resource Manager. Unfortunately I was not able to comment his post (There was an error saving your comment. (Cannot create comment - access denied.)). Therefore and because I think this topic is interesting for many folks who are using azure cloud services right now, I write my "comment" here and send him a tweet. Maybe he or someone else can answer my questions.
I think that more interesting than the "what is the difference between cloud services and resource groups" is the question "should we plan to move from cloud services to azure resource groups?". Is it even possible? Or are we comparing apples to oranges?
What about scaling (for example adding new instances of a worker role with a simple slider or with auto scaling)?
The comparison is kind of apples(Cloud Service) and grocery(ARM) where can manage fruits, meats, and fishes.
But, very first concept of Cloud Service was similar to the ARM. That's why sometimes confusing.
Below quote is from free ebook Azure Web Apps for Developers (download), page 12 and 13.
An Azure Resource Group is a logical container for grouping Azure resources.
Grouping resources this way helps simplify the implementation, deployment, management, and monitoring of resources in the resource group. From a billing perspective, it gives you a way to view costs for the resource group rather than for individual resources, eliminating the need to figure out which resources are related. You can think of an Azure Resource Group as a unit of management.
The last line helps to understand clearly, Azure Resource Group is a unit of management.
In my Azure environment I am often tinkering around, adding new services, scaling roles up and down, etc. The problem is that I am always unsure as to how I may have affected my monthly bill. I'm also scared of forgetting to kill services after I don't need them (for example, I mistakenly had a Reporting Service running for a few weeks - very expensive!).
I'm looking for an add-on or service which can give be a basic idea of how much money I am consuming in Azure. I don't need something complicated. A graph or two could be great (perhaps a burn down).
I found these but without luck:
Foglight for Azure: This didn't work for me. All my figures showed up as 0.
Active Cloud Monitoring: This has been removed from the Azure add-ons.
Does anyone know of such a solution?
thank you for the question and the feedback. The new Azure portal, which is currently in public preview, does have this feature. You can try out the new portal at https://portal.azure.com/ . Once there, click on Billing tab on the left of the screen, which should bring up a billing summary for all your subscriptions. Click on the subscription that you need to check, and that will show you the billing details for that subscription. Details include subscription status, days left, current charges, burn down, and a breakdown of current charges by resource.
Please try this out and send your feedback using the "Give feedback" link at the top of the new portal page. You will have to click on your account name to see the "Give feedback" option in the drop down.
If you are using "Enterprise Agreement" as a billing option, the Azure portal does not provide sufficient billing information.
You could use Microsoft Power BI to import the data from Azure and use it for reporting. In Power BI you can use the Content pack "Microsoft Azure Enterprise" and connect it to your subscription. You will need the Enrollment number for your Enterprise Agreement and an API key to access the data.
A detailed explanation can be found in this blog entry.