Our Wish list
- 1. Alerting for when a server is restarted – We have tested the resource check profile and added in the server restart codes from the logs but this doesn’t work.
- 2. Monitor web apps in Microsoft Azure i.e http request errors (would be great if we can stop/start webapps from Site24x7 and from the mobile app in a similar way that we can with services on servers)
- 3. Azure Subscription Monitoring i.e. when new resources are added to the subscription such as VMs, Web Apps, Databases, we can be notified
- 4. The ability to enter Azure Subscription details into Site24x7, then it queries and pulls all of our resources, allowing us to choose which resources we would like to monitor, then we can drill down into each resource to specify how we monitor them.
- 5. Microsoft Azure Data centre region outage alerting i.e. if the US East region were to suffer an outage, it would be good to know (as far as MS Azure will inform you) so you can alert based on the information provided if any.
- 6. Ability to write custom plugins for Azure itself in addition to the VMs that are running in Azure with strong support for PowerShell scripting
- 7. Microsoft Azure Storage Monitoring
- 8. Microsoft Server Cluster Monitoring
- 9. Microsoft SQL Server Cluster Monitoring
- 10. Server Memory Maps – this will show graphically what services/processes are using what % of memory
- 11. Active Directory Replication Monitoring – Monitor Sites, DFSR, health check monitors.
- 12. IIS Logs resource profile checks – This may be in place already but need more documentation about this
- 13. Linux Servers in Azure Cloud to have the same level of monitoring/alerting capabilities as Microsoft Servers
- 14. Better support for Windows PowerShell interaction with Site24x7
- 15. Microsoft DSC support – At the moment we are using MS DSC as a configuration management tool to deploy Site24x7 agent to servers; however, we are unable to configure the monitoring specifics in our DSC scripts, which means we have to log into Site24x7 to assign the monitor group, threshold template, notification template, Disk space utilization thresholds and services to monitor etc.
- 16. Microsoft DSC alerting – alert us when DSC has to pull a node back into its Desired State Configuration and what changes were made to bring the server back in line.
- 17. The ability to select whether a custom dashboard is made public or private.
- 18. All Dashboards should auto-refresh – nobody has time to sit there refreshing the page to see if monitoring information is up-to-date. We shouldn’t need to install third party plugins for google chrome for example for such a basic feature that should be standard.
- 19. Custom Azure Dashboards, again, with the ability to make this public or private. All Private Dashboards, should require login to Site24x7.
Thanks for your details requirements. These are definitely helpful in our analysis / requirement gathering for the Azure monitoring feature.
We will keep you posted as we move ahead and see some progress.
Regards,
Raji.
We understand Azure monitoring is important. We are in the very early stages of analysis. We haven't started on the implementation yet. So, it is too early to commit on a specified time line. It will take another quarter to get a clarity on the implementation details and then we could give some time line.
We will keep this post updated.
Regards,
Raji.
Hi Guys,
We have started with Azure Monitoring.
Here are the list of things that we will take up initially and progress iteratively.
1. AutoDiscover Azure resources and their meta information.
2. Use our Azure VM Extensions to install agents in Azure VMs automatically.
3. Azure Web App monitoring.
Points 1 and 2 will make sure that all Azure VMs are monitored automatically and auto scaling taken care of.
With regards to Service bus monitoring, this is a classic resource and MS themselfs are coming out of it. Hence it would be unwise to support them at this point. More techincally, APIs for monitoring these (classic resources) may well be stopped. Hence we will concentrate on the new ARM based resources now.
Please feel free to comment on this. If you need more specific Azure resources that you need to monitor please feel free to post them here.
-Jasper
Hi Oriol,
"monitor an instance of Azure SQL".
- By "Instance" if you mean SQL Server Instance (Azure VM with SQL server) then our SQL monitoring can help you; here is the link to the help page. You need to install our agent in your Azure SQL Server VM and start monitoring (You can use the Site24x7's Azure extension to install the agent. Link for installing the extension is here).
- If you are asking for direct Azure SQL (PaaS) service monitoring, we are yet to provide this feature. As part of Azure monitoring we are starting with Azure VM and Azure Web App monitoring for Azure (see my above reply) after which we may take up SQL as a service.
However you can use our APM Insight feature to monitor your Azure SQL queries of an application and drill down which SQL query is causing the problem.
Please feel free to converse with us.
Jasper Paul,
Site24x7 Team.
Hi Ole,
We are working on it. ETA for it is still not decided. BTW, how do you want Azure Monitoring to be?
Is the full Monitoring solution for Azure that you want or is there any particular use case you would like us to solve?
-Jasper
Site24x7
Hi Guys,
We are rethinking of how to best solve Azure use cases. Doing the full blown Azure monitoring (i.e support service by service) is one way and solving the most critical use cases like auto scaling and avoiding false alerts due to the dynamic nature of cloud is another way.
We already have one of a kind integration with our Azure Extensions. We want to leverage them to the fullest.
Please post your suggestions here. If possible please explain 2-3 problem that you find difficult to solve.
-Jasper
Site24x7 Team
We want to monitor our new applications which were hosted in Azure cloud. Please support following Azure related things:
1. Monitoring of WebApps with Application Insights
2. Monitoring of LogicApps
For each point we are interessted in performance, availability and down\trouble alerts.
Regards
Patrik
Hi All,
First, some good news. We are completing implementation of Azure monitoring. We will support all services of Azure in a customer's account from day one. We are using Azure Insights API to get the metrics.
>> 1. Monitoring of WebApps with Application Insights.
We will support WebApps but without Application Insights at the moment.
If anyone need early access to Azure monitoring please mention it here.
PS: Make sure you are logged in, only then can we give access to the right people.
Regards,
-Jasper
Product Manager Site24x7
I am evaluating site24x7 and would like a look. We are an Azure only shop and this option looks promising to us.
Thanks.
Hi Patrik,
Sure we will. BTW, do you have the Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Azure or the pay-as-you-go or any other?
-Jasper
Hi Ole,
We are working on some backend updates. I'll add you to the list. You will receive a mail once we are good for beta.
Hi Jasper, any news? Screenshot looks very good!
Hi Pfeffer,
We are getting ourselves ready. We are yet to open early access. You will get a mail from us soon. BTW, Thanks for the compliments. :)
-Jasper
Hi Jasper,
We are very interested to the early access and would like to try it out with our EA.
Please let me know,
Thanks,
- Parvez
Hello Jasper,
I'm very interested in this early access. This a common demand of my clients. (Also on MSP)
If its possible, include me on access preview.
Thank you
PINPOINT Team
Pinpoint Team,
You will soon hear from us in mail. Thanks for your interest.
-Jasper
Dear support team,
that sounds very good, that you will have extended support for Azure soon - is there any roadmap available?
Also I would be very interested in preview for the solution, what do I have to do so that you can add me?
Thanks and best!
Hi Guest,
Could you please contact us in support@site24x7.com so that we can give access to the right account. Thanks for understanding.
-Jasper
Greetings,
We are excited to announce APM support for Azure App services using APM Insight .NET Agent.
The new extension APM Insight .NET Agent in Azure App Services will monitor the ASP.NET applications built in .NET Framework hosted in Azure App services.
It will analyze the performance of your Azure web apps and obtain a holistic view of your application performance, and enhance your end user experience.
The help link is provided below for enabling APM for in Azure App Services,
https://www.site24x7.com/help/apm/dotnet-agent/monitor-azure-app-services.html
We look forward for your valuable feedback to fulfill all your requirements and make the product better.
If you have any difficulties with the setup, please feel free to contact us. We would be glad to assist you.
Happy Monitoring...!
Regards,
Anburaj
APM Insight .NET Agent Team
Hi Patrik,
We are yet to start work on this. But this is in our plans already. We will update here once we have more concrete plans for this.
-Jasper
Product Manager, Site24x7.
Hi,
We are glad to announce the support to monitor over 100 Azure products in near real-time. Please read our announcement post to get started.
Read this recent launch in our press release, and follow #Site24x7AIOps on our Twitter wall for live updates.
Happy Monitoring!
Hi,
We are glad to be a launch partner for the release of Azure Deployment Manager (ADM). Use Site24x7 health monitors to ensure 100 percent availability of Azure services during deployments.
Read our announcement post on how to set up a health check.
Happy Monitoring!
Hi,
I will check with our development team on the feasibility of adding this feature in our road map and post an update in this thread.
Thanks!
Hi,
is there any possible, to monitor and alter Dead Letter Message Count in Service Bus Queues? Because, we need the get notified if there is at least 1 message in the Dead Letter Queue.
Thanks
Thomas
Hi,
We already support monitoring of Dead Letter Message Count in Service Bus Queues. However, we currently don't support alerting for this metric. I shall post an update in this thread once it's live.
Thanks!
Hi,
We are working on providing support to monitor Dead Letter Message Count. Will post an update once this is live.
Thanks!
Regards
Mathangi