Azure Storage Account Monitoring Integration

An Azure storage account stores all of your storage data objects, including blobs, file shares, queues, and tables. The storage account creates a unique namespace for your Azure Storage data that can be accessed through HTTP or HTTPS from anywhere in the world.

With Site24x7's integration, you can now monitor your storage account with accurate metrics, configure thresholds, get alerts, and prevent any failure beforehand.

Set up and configuration

Adding an Azure storage account while configuring a new Azure monitor

If you haven't configured an Azure monitor yet, add one by following the steps below:

Log in to your Site24x7 account.
Choose Cloud from the left navigation pane, and select Azure > Add Azure Monitor. You can also follow these steps to add an Azure monitor.
During Azure monitor configuration in the Edit Azure Monitor page, select Azure Storage Account from the Service/Resource Types drop-down.

Adding an Azure storage account to an existing Azure monitor

If you already have an Azure monitor configured for the tenant, you can add the Azure storage account by using the following steps:

Log in to your Site24x7 account.
Navigate to the Azure monitor for which you wish to add an Azure storage account.
Click the hamburger icon and then Edit, which will bring you to the Edit Azure Monitor page.
In the Edit Azure Monitor page, select the corresponding Subscription and Resource Group from the drop-down menu, select Azure Storage Account from the Service/Resource Types drop-down, and click Save.

After successful configuration, go to Cloud > Azure, and select Azure Storage Account from the Azure monitor drop-down. Now you can view the discovered storage accounts.

Note

It will take up to 30 minutes to discover new Azure resources. For immediate discovery of the selected configuration, go to the Service View page of the Azure monitor and click Discover Now.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Azure Storage Account Monitor collects metric data every minute and the statuses from your storage accounts every five minutes.

Supported metrics

The following metrics are collected:

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Availability	The percentage of availability for the storage service or the specified API operation: availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation.	Average	Percent
Egress	The amount of egress data: this number includes egress to external clients from Azure storage as well as egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable egress.	Average	Bytes
Ingress	The amount of ingress data: this number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure.	Average	Bytes
Success E2E Latency	The average end-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation in milliseconds: this value includes the required processing time within Azure storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response.	Average	Milliseconds
Success Server Latency	The average time used to process a successful request by Azure storage: this value does not include the network latency specified in Success E2E Latency.	Average	Milliseconds
Transactions	The number of requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation: this number includes successful and failed requests along with requests that produced errors.	Average	Count
Used capacity	The amount of storage used by the storage account: for standard storage accounts, it's the sum of the capacity used by blobs, tables, files, and queues. For premium storage accounts and blob storage accounts, it is the same as the Blob Capacity or File Capacity.	Average	Bytes

Azure Uptime monitoring

Site24x7’s Azure Uptime monitoring enables proactive tracking of your Azure resources’ availability and uptime, along with their configuration and inventory details. Note that uptime monitoring will disable performance metric data collection.

Threshold configuration

Global configuration

Go to the Admin section on the left navigation pane.
Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and choose the Threshold and Availability (+) tab from the drop-down menu.
Choose the monitor type as Azure Storage Account.

You can also set the threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.

Monitor-level configuration

Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure Storage Account from the drop-down menu.
Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold and then click the hamburger icon . Choose the Edit option, which will direct you to the Edit Azure Storage Account Monitor page.

You can set the threshold values for the metrics by selecting the Threshold and Availability option. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7's IT Automation tools help auto-resolve performance degradation issues. The alarm engine continually evaluates the system events for which thresholds are set and executes the mapped automation when there is a breach.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor.

Configuration Rules

Configure parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, Monitor Group, and others for multiple monitors with Site24x7's Configuration Rules. You can run a scan and associate any of the previously generated rules that suit the monitor configurations while adding new monitors.

In Azure Storage, you can add configuration rules for:

Add Blob Containers - Monitor specific blob containers in your storage account
Add File Shares - Monitor specific file shares in your storage account

Regular expressions (RegEx) are supported for both configuration types, allowing you to define patterns for monitoring multiple resources that match specific naming conventions.

How to add a configuration rule.

Storage License Details

The following licensing applies to Azure Storage Account monitoring:

One Basic Monitor License for each Storage Account
One Basic Monitor License for every 25 Blob container monitors
One Basic Monitor License for every 25 File Share monitors

Summary

The Summary tab will give you a comprehensive view and the performance data organized by time for the above mentioned metrics.

To view the summary, go to Cloud > Azure and click the Azure monitor > Azure Storage Account.
Click a resource and select the Summary tab.

The Summary tab includes a dashboard that provides a comprehensive overview of your storage resources with data from these monitor types:

File Storage: Displays metrics related to your file shares
Blob Storage: Shows performance and usage data for blob containers
Table Storage: Provides metrics for table storage resources
Queue Storage: Displays information about queue storage performance

These metrics allow you to view the Availability, Ingress, Egress, and much more.

Dashboard View

For a more comprehensive view of all your storage resources like Blob Storage, Queue Storage, File Share, and more, you can access the dedicated dashboard:

Navigate to Azure > Storage Account
Click on Dashboard View in the top-right corner

This dashboard provides detailed metrics and visualizations for all your storage resources in one consolidated view, making it easier to monitor and manage your entire storage infrastructure.

Configuration Details

The Configuration Details of an application instance are provided under this tab. Here, you'll find the Storage Account type, Endpoints, Encryptionrelatedconfigurations and so on.

To get the configuration details, go to Cloud > Azure and click the Azure monitor > Azure Storage Account.
Click a resource and select the Configuration Details tab.

Reports

Gain in-depth data about the various parameters of your monitored resources and highlight your service performance using our insightful reports.

To view reports for your Azure storage account:

Navigate to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
Select Azure Storage Account from the menu on the left.

You can find the Availability Summary Report and the Performance Report for one selected monitor, or you can get the Inventory Report, Summary Report, Availability Summary Report, Health Trend Report, and the Performance Report for all the storage account monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Azure Storage Account Monitor.

Go to the Summary tab of the Azure Storage Account Monitor, and get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking on Availability or Downtime.
You can also find the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking on any chart title.