Is there a way to monitor the number of times a runbook has been called and then report on it (send email, text)? When I try to create an alert rule I only see an option for activity log not metrics. The runbook is getting called from event grid via webhook.
You can use automation runbooks with three alert types:
Classic metric alerts - Sends a notification when any platform-level metric meets a specific condition. For example, when the value for CPU % on a VM is greater than 90 for the past 5 minutes.
Activity log alerts
Near real-time metric alerts - Sends a notification faster than metric alerts when one or more platform-level metrics meet specified conditions. For example, when the value for CPU % on a VM is greater than 90, and the value for Network In is greater than 500 MB for the past 5 minutes.
When an alert calls a runbook, the actual call is an HTTP POST request to the webhook. The body of the POST request contains a JSON-formated object that has useful properties that are related to the alert.
This Microsoft documentation link might help for metrics alerts for runbook :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-create-alert-triggered-runbook
You can send your Azure Automation runbook status data to Log Analytics. From there, you can alert on the different states. This documentation should help you with this process: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/send-your-runbook-job-status-and-job-streams-from-automation-to-log-analytics-oms/
There are multiple answers to this question although none of them are a perfect solution. What I ended up doing was putting a logic app in front of the runbook that then calls the runbook. This allows me to alert on the metrics of my logic app.
We have just added support for Monitoring runbooks and having Alerts on it. Please go to the Alerts experience in Azure Monitor where you should be able to choose an Automation Account and then a Runbook as a dimension and then perform actions based on number of jobs of the Runbook etc.
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How do you create an alert for when an Azure Function on the Consumption plan has timed out after 10 minutes? There used to be a signal in Application Insights called "Failures" that indicated this but it looks like Microsoft removed it. My old signal was whenever the total count of Failures was > 0 it would send me an email, but I don't see anything comparable anymore.
Open your application insights, click on Alerts and Click on Create alert.
There you can select Custom Log Search in condition as below:
Then you use the below query:
requests
| where duration > 1000
Then you can create alert over there, This is one way of getting alerts using Time Duration.
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.
I have an Application Insight resource on which I activated an Alert rule.
I created this rule around 12:00 so i receive the emails on that time. It is possible to set the hour of reception of this mail in an arbitrary hour?
If you're using azure alerts, it is impossible.
You can take a look at Automate Application Insights processes by using Logic Apps which can help you for this issue.
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 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.