Windows Azure Monitoring Extension

This extension works only with the standalone machine agent.

Use Case

Windows Azure is an Internet-scale computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. It includes a number of features with corresponding developer services which can be used individually or together.

Prerequisite

Create and export management certificate to azure For steps to create a certificate and export to Azure visit http://gauravmantri.com/2013/08/25/consuming-windows-azure-service-management-api-in-java/

Installation

1. Run "mvn clean install"
2. Download and unzip the file 'target/AzureMonitor.zip' to <machineagent install dir}/monitors
3. Open monitor.xml and configure the Azure arguments

<argument name="subscriptionId" is-required="true" default-value="4814ab8f-ebb8-42b5-ac5c-69b675d19e2c" />
<argument name="keyStorePath" is-required="true" default-value="/home/satish/AppDynamics/Azure/WindowsAzureKeyStore.jks" />
<argument name="keyStorePassword" is-required="true" default-value="appdAzure123" />

<!-- Azure REST API version, More info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn166981.aspx -->
 <argument name="x-ms-version" is-required="true" default-value="2013-11-01" />
 <!-- The configuration file which lists out the metrics to be included from monitoring on controller-->
 <argument name="include-metrics-path" is-required="true" default-value="monitors/AzureMonitor/metrics.properties" />

 <!--Proxy server details-->
<argument name="proxyHost" is-required="false" default-value="" />
<argument name="proxyPort" is-required="false" default-value="" />
<argument name="proxyUsername" is-required="false" default-value="" />
<argument name="proxyPassword" is-required="false" default-value="" />

SubscriptionId : Azure subscription id
keyStorePath : Path of keystore which is created and uploaded to azure
keyStorePassword : Password for the keystore
x-ms-version : Azure REST API version (For more info refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn166981.aspx)
include-metrics-path : Path to metrics.properties
proxyHost : Proxy server host if any
proxyPort : Proxy server port if any
proxyUsername : Proxy server user name if any
proxyPassword : Proxy server password if any

Open metrics.properties and configure storage account names
STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAMES_FOR_TABLE: Storage account name for which table level metrics to be fetched
STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAMES_FOR_BLOB: Storage account name for which blob level metrics to be fetched

Metrics

The following metrics are reported.

Subscription

Metric Path	Description
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/MaxCoreCount	MaxCoreCount
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/MaxStorageAccounts	MaxStorageAccounts
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/MaxHostedServices	MaxHostedServices
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/CurrentCoreCount	CurrentCoreCount
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/CurrentHostedServices	CurrentHostedServices
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/CurrentStorageAccounts	CurrentStorageAccounts
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/MaxVirtualNetworkSites	MaxVirtualNetworkSites
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/MaxLocalNetworkSites	MaxLocalNetworkSites
Azure/Subscription/{SubscriptionID}/MaxDnsServers	MaxDnsServers

Disks

Metric Path	Description
Azure/Disk/{Disk Name}/Disk Size	Disk Size

OS Image

Metric Path	Description
Azure/OS Image/{Name}/LogicalSizeInGB	Logical OS Disk Size

Website Management

Metric Path	Description
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/CurrentNumberOfWorkers
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Enabled
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/CPU Time/{Unit}/CurrentValue	CPU Time currentvalue
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/CPU Time/{Unit}/Limit	CPU Time limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Data In/{Unit}/CurrentValue	Data in current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Data In/{Unit}/Limit	Data in limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Data Out/{Unit}/CurrentValue	Data out current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Data Out/{Unit}/Limit	Data out limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Local bytes read/{Unit}/CurrentValue	Local bytes read current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Local bytes read/{Unit}/Limit	Local bytes read limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Local bytes written/{Unit}/CurrentValue	Local bytes written current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Local bytes written/{Unit}/Limit	Local bytes written limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Network bytes read/{Unit}/CurrentValue	Network bytes read current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Network bytes read/{Unit}/Limit	Network bytes read limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Network bytes written/{Unit}/CurrentValue	Network bytes written current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Network bytes written/{Unit}/Limit	Network bytes written limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/WP stop requests/{Unit}/CurrentValue	WP stop requests current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/WP stop requests/{Unit}/Limit	WP stop requests limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Memory Usage/{Unit}/CurrentValue	Memory usage current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/Memory Usage/{Unit}/Limit	Memory usage limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/CPU Time - Minute Limit/{Unit}/CurrentValue	CPU time in minutes current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/CPU Time - Minute Limit/{Unit}/Limit	CPU time in minutes limit
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/File System Storage/{Unit}/CurrentValue	File system storage current value
Azure/Web Space/{Web Space Name}/{Web Site Name}/Usage Metrics/File System Storage/{Unit}/Limit	File system storage limit

Database Server

Metric Path	Description
Azure/DATABASE SERVER/{DB Server Name}/DATABASE/{DB Name}/MaxSizeBytes	Max DB size in bytes
Azure/DATABASE SERVER/{DB Server Name}/DATABASE/{DB Name}/SizeBytes	DB Size in bytes

Storage

Table

Metric Path	Description
Azure/Storage/Table/{Storage Account Name}/No Of Tables	Number of tables in storage account

Blob

Metric Path	Description
Azure/Storage/Blob/{Storage Account Name}/Container/{Container Name}/Blobs/{Blob Name}/Size	Blob size

Custom Dashboard

Contributing

Always feel free to fork and contribute any changes directly here on GitHub.

Community

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Support

For any questions or feature request, please contact AppDynamics Center of Excellence.