Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Integration | VMware Aria Operations for Applications Documentation

Learn about the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Integration.

This page provides an overview of what you can do with the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine integration. The documentation pages only for a limited number of integrations contain the setup steps and instructions. If you do not see the setup steps here, navigate to the Operations for Applications GUI. The detailed instructions for setting up and configuring all integrations, including the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine integration are on the Setup tab of the integration.

Log in to your Operations for Applications instance.
Click Integrations on the toolbar, search for and click the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine tile.
Click the Setup tab and you will see the most recent and up-to-date instructions.

Microsoft Azure Integration

The Microsoft Azure integration enables monitoring Azure with Tanzu Observability and offers pre-defined dashboards and alert conditions.

Dashboards

Tanzu Observability provides Microsoft Azure dashboards for the following services:

Azure: Application Gateway
Azure: App Service
Azure: Container Instances
Azure: Cosmos DB
Azure: Event Hubs
Azure: Files
Azure: Functions
Azure: HDInsight
Azure: Kubernetes Service
Azure: Load Balancer
Azure: Cache for Redis
Azure: Storage Accounts
Azure: SQL Database
Azure: SQL Data Warehouse
Azure: Summary
Azure: Virtual Machine
Azure: Virtual Machine Scale Set

Here’s a preview of the Virtual Machine dashboard: images/azure-overview.png

Metrics Configuration

Tanzu Observability ingests Microsoft Azure metrics using the Azure Monitor APIs. For details on the metrics that the API supports, see the documentation.

Metrics originating from Microsoft Azure are prefixed with azure. within Tanzu Observability. After you set up the integration, you can browse the available metrics in the Metrics browser. Simply click Browse > Metrics from the taskbar and search for azure..

The metric names consist of the actual metric name and a suffix for the aggregation type. The default metric name without a suffix corresponds to the total aggregation type. For example, the metric names for metric azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu are:

azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.average azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.maximum azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.minimum azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.count azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu (corresponds to azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.total)

Metrics Information

You can see the information about the metrics on the Azure metrics doc site. Click a link below to see the detailed metrics information per service:

Add a Microsoft Azure Cloud Integration

Adding a Microsoft Azure cloud integration requires establishing a trust relationship between Azure and VMware Aria Operations for Applications (formerly known as Tanzu Observability by Wavefront). The overall process involves the following:

Getting a Directory ID
Creating an Azure Active Directory application that represents Operations for Applications inside Azure and getting the Application ID.
Creating a secret key and getting the Application secret.

To register a Microsoft Azure Cloud Integration:

In the Name text box, enter a meaningful name.
In the Directory ID text box, enter your Microsoft Azure Directory ID.
In the Application ID text box, enter the Azure Active Directory Application (client) ID.
In the Application Secret text box, enter the secret key that you created. Note: The Azure application secret that you enter is securely stored and never exposed except for read only access to the Azure APIs.
(Optional) Enter the category names to fetch.
(Optional) In the Metric Allow List text box, you can add metrics to an allow list by entering a regular expression. For example, ^azure.(compute|dbforpostgresql).*$.

Note: Metric names consist of the actual metric name and a suffix (starting with a dot (“.”)). The suffix represents an aggregation type. In the regular expression, you must use the actual metric names without the aggregation types, such as: count, average, minimum, maximum, sum, and so on.

For example, the metric names for the metric azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu are:
- azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.average
- azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.maximum
- azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.minimum
- azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.count
- azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu (corresponds to azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.total)
Here, the actual metric name is azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu, while average, maximum, minimum, and count are the aggregation types. When you create the regular expression, you must use only azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu. For example, ^azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu$.
(Optional) Enter the resource group names to fetch.
Select whether you want to fetch logs. If you decide that you want to fetch activity logs, you can also specify the log categories to fetch, e.g. Administrative, Service health, Alert, and so on.
Click Register.

Alerts

Azure Instance CPU Usage Too High:Alert reports when the Azure Instance CPU utilization constantly exceeds the defined limit.
Azure Disk IOPS Consumed Percentage Too High:Alert reports when the Azure Disk IOPS consumed percentage constantly exceeds the defined limit.

Metric Name	Description
azure.compute.vm.cpu.credits.consumed.*	Total number of credits consumed by the Virtual Machine. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.cpu.credits.remaining.*	Total number of credits available to burst. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.data.disk.queue.depth.*	Data Disk Queue Depth(or Queue Length). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.data.disk.read.bytes.sec.*	Bytes/Sec read from a single disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.data.disk.read.operations.sec.*	Read IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.data.disk.write.bytes.sec.*	Bytes/Sec written to a single disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.data.disk.write.operations.sec.*	Write IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.disk.read.bytes.*	Bytes read from disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.disk.read.operations.sec.*	Disk Read IOPS. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.disk.write.bytes.*	Bytes written to disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.disk.write.operations.sec.*	Disk Write IOPS. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.inbound.flows.*	Inbound Flows are number of current flows in the inbound direction (traffic going into the VM). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.network.in.total.*	The number of bytes received on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine(s) (Incoming Traffic). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.network.out.total.*	The number of bytes out on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine(s) (Outgoing Traffic). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.disk.queue.depth.*	OS Disk Queue Depth(or Queue Length). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.disk.read.bytes.sec.*	Bytes/Sec read from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.disk.read.operations.sec.*	Read IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.disk.write.bytes.sec.*	Bytes/Sec written to a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.disk.write.operations.sec.*	Write IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.per.disk.qd.*	OS Disk Queue Depth(or Queue Length). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.per.disk.read.operations.sec.*	Read IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.per.disk.write.bytes.sec.*	Bytes/Sec written to a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.os.per.disk.write.operations.sec.*	Write IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.outbound.flows.*	Outbound Flows are number of current flows in the outbound direction (traffic going out of the VM). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.per.disk.qd.*	Data Disk Queue Depth(or Queue Length). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.per.disk.read.bytes.sec.*	Bytes/Sec read from a single disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.per.disk.read.operations.sec.*	Disk Read IOPS. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.per.disk.write.bytes.sec.*	Bytes written to disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.per.disk.write.operations.sec.*	Write IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.percentage.cpu.*	The percentage of allocated compute units that are currently in use by the Virtual Machine(s). Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.premium.data.disk.cache.read.hit.*	Premium data disk cache read hit. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.premium.data.disk.cache.read.miss.*	Premium data disk cache read miss. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.premium.os.disk.cache.read.hit.*	Premium OS disk cache read hit. Statistics: count
azure.compute.vm.premium.os.disk.cache.read.miss.*	Premium OS disk cache read miss. Statistics: count