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Microsoft Azure Firewall

Microsoft Azure Firewall - An Overview

Azure Firewall is a brilliant network Firewall security service provided by Microsoft Azure, with high availability and unhindered cloud scalability. It offers the best threat protection for the cloud workloads in Azure. Applications Manager's Azure Firewall monitoring tool helps to monitor your Azure Firewall instances and their underlying conditions in an efficient manner.

Creating a new Microsoft Azure Firewall Monitor

To learn how to create a new Microsoft Azure Firewall 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 Firewalls monitor from the displayed tooltip. This action will display the bulk configuration view for Azure Firewall 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.

The Microsoft Azure monitor provides a brief detail of the Azure Firewall under the given subscription. Following are the list of metrics monitored in Azure Firewall Monitoring in their corresponding tabs:

Overview

ParameterDescription
Firewall HEALTH
Firewall Health State The average health of the Firewall based on SNAT port availability, at the time of polling (in %).
SNAT PORT UTILIZATION
SNAT Port Utilization The average amount of SNAT ports that have been utilized by the Firewall, at the time of polling (in %).
DATA PROCESSED (TOTAL)
Data Processed (Total) The total amount of data traversing the Firewall, between the poll interval (in MB).
DATA THROUGHPUT
Data Throughput The average Megabits of data traversing the Firewall per second, between the poll interval (in Mb/s).
LATENCY
Latency Probe The average latency of the Firewall, as measured by latency probe between the poll interval (in milliseconds).
RULE HITS
Total Application Rule Hits The total number of times an Application rule was hit, between the poll interval.
Total Network Rule Hits The total number of times a Network rule was hit, between the poll interval.

Configuration

ParameterDescription
CONFIGURATION
Resource Group Name The name of the resource group.
Location The location of the resource.
Provisioning State The current provisioning state of the Firewall resource. Possible values:
  • Succeeded
  • Failed
  • Updating
  • Deleting
SKU The SKU of the Azure Firewall. Possible values:
  • Premium
  • Standard
  • Basic
Threat Intelligence Mode Indicates the operation mode for Threat Intelligence. Possible values:
  • Alert
  • Deny
  • Off
IP CONFIGURATION
Private IP Address The private IP address of the Firewall.
Public IP Address The primary public IP address of the Firewall.
Public IP Address Resource Name The name of the primary public IP address of the Firewall.
Virtual Network The name of the Virtual Network bound to the Firewall.
Subnet Name The name of the Subnet bound to the Firewall.
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