Overview

The Azure Metrics Event Monitor watches and alerts on metrics from Microsoft Azure that you choose.

Use Cases

• Singling out important Azure metrics to monitor round-the-clock
• Keeping record of data for specific metrics over time

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Namespace

Enter the namespace that corresponds with the metric you want to monitor.

Metric Name

Here, enter the name of the metric you want to monitor.

Resource

Enter the resource type that matches your Azure metric.

Aggregation

Select the aggregation type you want to use with your metric, from average, maximum, minimum, total, or count.

Alert if the value is

Here, you can choose the conditions of your alerting. You can choose to be alerted if the value is greater than, less than, or equal to the value you input in the following field.

Value

Enter the value that the event monitor will compare the detected metric value with.

Data Type

Here, you can enter the type of data that the Azure metric you're monitoring represents.

Level

Enter the level at which your Azure metric is stored.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if Azure cannot be contacted

Use this option to alert if the event monitor cannot connect to Microsoft Azure.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if data for the specified metric is missing

This alerting option will send a notification of your choice of severity if the event monitor cannot find data for the specified metric.

Authentication and Security

The account used for authentication must have an app registration that has User.Read permissions at the delegated level.

Protocols

Data Points

This data points generated by this event monitor correlate 1:1 with the Azure metrics you choose to monitor.

Sample Output