There's a basic functionality of providing a customer with a monthly site availibility report (eg. in order to check the compliance with an SLA agreement).
It would be optimal to generate such a report from custom web scenario monitoring specific functionalities covered in SLA.
How can I achievie it? Standard 'availability reports' seems very basic (only bars, no numbers !) and doesn't seem to be available for web scenarios.
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Is there a way to see what is pulling data out of the system and how much?
I have looked at the Access History(OData refresh) but I am thinking the API can also be an issue.
We currently experiencing massive data pulls via the IIS on our server and I can't see what is pulling the data.
Any ideas or suggestions will be helpful I
You can monitor lots of things such as SQL and Memory through the Request Profiler.
Search for Request Profiler in the search box.
Click Log Requests and Log SQL to enable full logging.
Remember to turn it off when you are done as it will have a small performance hit.
An alternative is to use the License Monitoring Console within Acumatica. You can view historical transactions whether they are commercial or ERP related.
From the help file, commercial transactions are:
Commercial transactions are a subset of ERP transactions. The system
regards a transaction as commercial when the transaction creates or
updates any of the following entities: sales orders, shipments,
Accounts Receivable invoices, payments, purchase orders, purchase
receipts, and Accounts Payable invoices. All requests generated by
using the web services API that create or update data in these
documents are also considered commercial transactions.
Also, you can review the number of web service API requests, requests per minute and maximum number of users. This can also help determine whether your client needs to be on a higher tier for Acumatica.
You can also follow the troubleshooting recommendations listed on Acumatica's help site.
We are looking into building-out some reporting dashboards for use by product owners/etc that might not be familiar with Application Insights or Azure Monitor. We would like to display a list of historical alerts by type as well as some basic aggregations. We see where we can display this information (somewhat) from within Azure Monitor, but we do not see how we can actually surface this information on a dashboard within Azure.
I have found this API call, which seems to retrieve the data, but we are not looking to develop a custom solution.
I hope Serverless360 will be of great fit to your requirements where you will be able to display the historical alerts by type as well as with some advanced aggregations. You can easily set up the powerful dashboards and which can be easily handled by product owners (doesn't necessarily to be familiar with Azure Monitor) to get a high level of insights.
Below is a sample of how a dashboard would look like
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!
Dynamics CRM 365 Online has Telemetry to monitor application performance and usage. My understanding is it stores data in Azure by sending via Script and on this Alerts can be set in Azure.
There is a CRM solution Organization Insight which is used for counters like API faults etc. my understanding is that this solution stores data in CRM and not Azure.
Please help if this solution generated data can also be used for settings alerts in azure and if yes, how? Thanks.
Over a period of time different products, SaaS offerings, platform tools, O365 capability were introduced/evolving in and around the Telemetry space. Some are strong in broader horizontal features vs deeper vertical strengths. Upto you to decide based on functionality matrix.
Dynamics CRM using Application Insights - this is just leveraging Azure Application Insights to track Availability, Performance, Usage of our CRM online using AppInsights features. It gives you the power to utilize client side telemetry like user activities/metrics/exceptions/browser, Server side agent for on-premise logs similar to Event viewer/IIS logs, data export, Alerting mechanism & web hooks, custom query, visualizations inside Azure portal resources blade (slice/dice), predictive analysis, etc.
CRM in-house Organization Insights - this is inbuilt telemetry solution from Product team, not yet fully delivered (still with bugs & limited functionality for data consumption itself), but we can expect more features, options & utilities to explore more in future. These are missing today & thats what you are asking. You can download data, call MS to give you the exported data, but still Alerts & monitoring wont fit using only available odata support for charts. This covers a lot of useful Admin stuffs, like natively gives you all plugins, WF, API calls, user interactions, mailbox, storage data, etc within CRM.
Activity logging - this is in preview and MS saying it’s more than what we have in Audit today, gives you extra than CRM audit but less than what Org Insights providing, even less than AppInsights features. But I expect more functionalities here like Alerts, Monitoring, web hooks as this is across O365 platforms & available for Global admins.
We run a software application on azure for one of our customers. The customer want to see the performance of the systems. This consist of two parts. One is the metric information of the servers and they also want to see some information I want to provide by custom logging.
My plan is to give the customer access to the portal and only allow him access to the metric information and the custom tables.
It seems to me that by assigning a role to the customer I should be able to block all the other possibilities.
Does someone can me tell which actions I have to allow/forbid to achieve this? Or were I can find the information for this?
Solution #1
Instead of giving Read access to the virtual machine which may breaks security policy, I'd recommend to go with Azure Log Analytics (ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-overview
) workspace. That said, you will need to create a workspace which collects and stores server metrics (ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-quick-collect-windows-computer) and other custom metrics.
Your customer will be given access to the workspace only which he can see all metrics in a dashboard. If there is a need for log filtering, you can use Log Analytics query language (ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-log-search-transition)
Log Analytics is a paid service. You are given free up to 10 workspaces per subscription. The workspace is considered an Azure resource so the limit follows by subscription limit, which means you can create up to 800 workspaces per a resource group. A subscription can allow 800 * 800 (for reference if you would like to do capacity planning for your workspace-based solution). For Log Analytics pricing, read here (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/log-analytics/).
Log Analytics is a good choice as its value proportion is to offer your customer intuitive dashboard to monitor their virtual machine performance, and to offer Near Real Time monitoring. And this solution is a cloud native compatibility.
There is a management solution which offers a bundle of VM capacity and performance monitoring which you can try now https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-capacity
Solution #2
Log Analytics might not be your choice because it might add more Azure service and operational cost. If you need a cheaper cost, you would need to collect your virtual machine by Performance Counter which is a built-in feature in Windows OS. With Performance Counter you can export to Excel file, or visualize into Power BI or some custom chart.
Other Solutions
You can utilize Azure Monitor and API to get data, For example, this API https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/monitor/metricdefinitions/list. You would certainly need to visualize or format in some intuitive way to satisfy your customer. It can be a custom front-end web, or Power BI or even Excel with chart.
You can just query to Azure Blob Storage and use Stream Analytics combining with Power BI to visualize your data (https://thuansoldier.net/?p=7187).
There is not a single solution. This really depends on your existing resource capacity, financial stuff or so on.