Azure Virtual Machines

• Azure Virtual Machines - An Overview
• Creating a new Azure Virtual Machine Monitor
• Monitored Parameters

Azure Virtual Machines - An Overview

The Azure Virtual Machines are monitored based on the parameters or the attributes listed below. These attributes provide information about the functioning of the Azure Virtual Machine. Using Applications Manager's Azure Virtual machines monitoring tool, you can also configure thresholds to the numerical attributes based on these details and get notified when the thresholds are violated.

Creating a new Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines monitor

To learn how to create a new Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines monitor, click here.

Monitored Parameters

Navigate to the Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Hover over 'Child Monitors' under Microsoft Azure in the Cloud Apps table, and then select the Virtual Machine monitor from the displayed tooltip. This action will display the bulk configuration view for Azure Virtual Machine in three tabs:

• Availability tab gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• List view enables you to perform bulk admin configurations.

Click on the monitor name to see all the server details listed. Following are the list of metrics monitored in Azure Virtual machines monitoring in their corresponding tabs:

Windows Virtual Machines - Monitored Metrics

• Monitor Information
• Overview
• CPU
• Memory
• Disk
• Network
• Threads & Processes
• Services
• Configuration

Linux Virtual Machines - Monitored Metrics

• Overview
• CPU
• Memory
• Disk
• Network
• Configuration

Windows Virtual Machines - Monitored Metrics

Monitor Information

Overview

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
CPU UTILIZATION
CPU Utilization	Amount of CPU utilized by the virtual machine (in %).
MEMORY UTILIZATION
Memory Utilization	Amount of memory utilized by the virtual machine (in %).
CPU CREDITS (Applicable only for B-series virtual machine)
CPU Credits Consumed	Number of credits consumed by the virtual machine
CPU Credits Remaining	Remaining number of credits available for the virtual machine.

CPU

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
PROCESSOR METRICS
Privileged Time	Amount of time for which the processor was running in privileged mode (in %).
User Time	Amount of time for which the processor was running in user mode (in %).
Processor Frequency	Number of times the processor is in running state.

Memory

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
MEMORY (COMMITTED vs AVAILABLE)
Committed Bytes	Amount of commited Virtual Memory (in MB).
Available Bytes	Amount of available Physical Memory (in MB).
Committed Bytes In Use	Ratio of Committed Bytes to the Commit Limit (in %).
POOL (PAGED vs NONPAGED)
Pool Paged Bytes	Size of the paged pool (in MB).
Pool Nonpaged Bytes	Size of physical memory that cannot be written to disk though it is not in use (in MB).
MEMORY FAULTS
Page Faults/sec	Number of page faults per second.

Disk

Note:  DISK BYTES(TOTAL), OS & DATA DISK OPERATIONS(AVERAGE), and NETWORK TRAFFIC FLOW (AVERAGE) are supported from Applications Manager version 16430 in both Windows and Linux metrics.

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
DISK BYTES (TOTAL)
Disk Read Bytes	Total Bytes of data read from all Disk between the poll interval (in megabytes).
Disk Write Bytes	Total Bytes of data written to all Disk between the poll interval (in megabytes).
DISK OPERATIONS (AVERAGE)
Disk Reads Ops/Sec	Average number of overall Disk read operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
Disk Writes Ops/Sec	Average number of overall Disk write operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
OS & DATA DISK THROUGHPUT (AVERAGE)
OS Disk Read Throughput	Average Bytes of data read from OS Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
Data Disk Read Throughput	Average Bytes of data read from Data Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
OS Disk Write Throughput	Average Bytes of data written to OS Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
Data Disk Write Throughput	Average Bytes of data written to Data Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
OS & DATA DISK OPERATIONS (AVERAGE)
OS Disk Reads Ops/Sec	Average number of OS Disk read operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
Data Disk Reads Ops/Sec	Average number of Data Disk read operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
OS Disk Writes Ops/Sec	Average number of OS Disk write operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
Data Disk Writes Ops/Sec	Average number of Data Disk write operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
DISK UTILIZATION
Disk	Disk Partition
Disk Usage	Disk Free space & Used space
Total Size (MB)	Total disk size
Used (%)	Used disk space as percentage
Used (MB)	Used disk space
Free (%)	Free disk space as percentage
Free (MB)	Free disk space
DISK IO STATISTICS
Disk	Disk partition
Transfers/Sec	The number of read/write operations on the disk that occur each second
Writes/sec	The percentage of elapsed time that the disk drive was busy servicing write requests
Reads/Sec	The percentage of elapsed time that the disk drive was busy servicing read requests
% Busy Time	The percentage of time the disk was busy
Average queue length	The average number of both read and write requests that were queued for the disk during the sample interval
DISK SPACING
Disk Name	Name of the hard disk
Disk Size	Total size of the disk

Network

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
NETWORK TRAFFIC THROUGHPUT (AVERAGE)
Incoming Traffic	The average number of bytes received on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine between the poll interval (in kB/Min).
Outgoing Traffic	The average number of bytes sent from all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine between the poll interval (in kB/Min).
NETWORK TRAFFIC FLOW (AVERAGE)
Inbound Flows	Average number of current flows in the inbound direction (traffic going into the VM).
Outbound Flows	Average number of current flows in the outbound direction (traffic going out of the VM).
NETWORK INTERFACE
Network Interface	The name of the network interface
Speed	The estimate of the current bandwidth (in Mbps).
Input traffic	The rate at which packets are received on the interface (in kB/s) .
Input Utilization	Input traffic percentage (in %).
Output traffic	The rate at which packets are sent on the interface (in %).
Output Utilization	Output traffic (in %)
Inbound Errors	Number of packets that could not be received
Outbound Errors	Number of packets that could not be sent

Threads & Processes

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
THREAD STATS
Thread Count	The total number of threads.
Context switches/sec	The total number of context switches per second.
PROCESS STATS
Process count	The total number of processes.
HANDLES
Handle count	The total number of handles

Services

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
Service Details
Service Name	Name of the service.
Display Name	Display name of the service set by the user.
Status	Status of the service. (Running, Paused, Stopped, StartPending, PausePending, ContinuePending, or StopPending)
Start Mode	Indicates the mode with which the service was started. (Auto or Manual)

You can also add a new service by clicking over the 'Add New Service' link.

Configuration

Linux Virtual Machine - Monitored Metrics

Overview

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
CPU UTILIZATION
CPU Utilization	Amount of CPU utilized by the virtual machine (in %).
MEMORY UTILIZATION
Memory Utilization	Amount of memory utilized by the virtual machine (in %). Note: Memory Utilization for Linux is supported from Applications Manager v171900 and it is not supported for the Diagnostic agent.
CPU CREDITS (Applicable only for B-series virtual machine)
CPU Credits Consumed	Number of credits consumed by the virtual machine
CPU Credits Remaining	Remaining number of credits available for the virtual machine.

CPU

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
CPU METRICS
IO Wait Time (%)	Percentage of time that the processor is waiting (i.e. is in an idle state and does nothing), during which there in fact was outstanding disk I/O requests.
Idle Time (%)	Percentage of time that the processor was idle
Processor Time(Linux) (%)	Percentage of time that the processor was used for processing instructions of a computer program or operating system

Memory

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
MEMORY DETAILS
Available Memory	The amount of memory available (in GB).
Used Memory	The amount of memory used (in GB).
Available Memory %	Percentage of memory available to the total memory.
Used Swap Memory %	Percentage of used swap memory to the total swap memory.

Disk

Note:  DISK IO LATENCY group metrics are not supported for the Azure Monitor Agent.

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
DISK BYTES (TOTAL)
Disk Read Bytes	Total Bytes of data read from all Disk between the poll interval (in megabytes).
Disk Write Bytes	Total Bytes of data written to all Disk between the poll interval (in megabytes).
DISK OPERATIONS (AVERAGE)
Disk Reads Ops/Sec	Average number of overall Disk read operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
Disk Writes Ops/Sec	Average number of overall Disk write operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
OS & DATA DISK THROUGHPUT (AVERAGE)
OS Disk Read Throughput	Average Bytes of data read from OS Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
Data Disk Read Throughput	Average Bytes of data read from Data Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
OS Disk Write Throughput	Average Bytes of data read from OS Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
Data Disk Write Throughput	Average Bytes of data written to Data Disk between the poll interval (in kilobytes/sec).
OS & DATA DISK OPERATIONS (AVERAGE)
OS Disk Reads Ops/Sec	Average number of OS Disk read operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
Data Disk Reads Ops/Sec	Average number of Data Disk read operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
OS Disk Writes Ops/Sec	Average number of OS Disk write operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
Data Disk Writes Ops/Sec	Average number of Data Disk write operations performed between the poll interval (in Operations/Sec).
DISK IO LATENCY
Average Read Time	Average time taken for a read operation.
Average Write time	Average time taken for a write operation.
DISK SPACING
Disk Name	Name of the hard disk
Disk Size	Total size of the disk

Network

Parameter	Description	Data Collection Method
		Azure Monitor	Azure monitor agent/Diagnostic Agent	Guest OS
NETWORK TRAFFIC THROUGHPUT (AVERAGE)
Incoming Traffic	The average number of bytes received on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine between the poll interval (in kB/Min).
Outgoing Traffic	The average number of bytes sent from all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine between the poll interval (in kB/Min).
NETWORK TRAFFIC FLOW(AVERAGE)
Inbound Flows	Average number of current flows in the inbound direction (traffic going into the VM).
Outbound Flows	Average number of current flows in the outbound direction (traffic going out of the VM).

Configuration

Configuration Table lists Virtual machine details like Status, Location, IP, Network interface, MAC address and Network Security Group.