Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with your Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
With Paessler PRTG, you get native sensors for monitoring your Azure resources out of the box. Just download and install PRTG, deploy a Microsoft Azure device by connecting your Azure account with PRTG, and add the PRTG Azure sensors you need.
PRTG makes sure that your Microsoft Azure virtual machines are up and running around the clock. Its Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine sensor monitors the status of each VM in your Microsoft Azure subscription and displays the CPU usage as well as used and remaining CPU credits.
A quick glance is all it takes to determine whether your virtual machines are available and performing as expected.
The Microsoft Azure Subscription Cost sensor monitors the cost of an Azure subscription. This includes the overall cost of the current and previous period as well as a cost forecast.
In addition, the sensor shows the used amount of a budget that you specified in your subscription. You can choose the specific budget during sensor setup.
With the Microsoft Azure Storage Account sensor, you can ensure that everything is fine with the storage accounts in your Azure subscription.
The sensor lets you keep an eye on the average E2E latency, the storage latency, total ingress and egress, the used capacity, and the number of request breakdowns.
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database sensor monitors the metrics of an Azure SQL Database, either a single database or an elastic pool. This way, you can check if your database storage and processes are all working as intended.
The sensor monitors the number of failed connections and deadlocks, CPU and data space usage, data and log input and output, the session percentage, and more.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the health and performance of your Azure virtual machines, storage accounts, and SQL databases. Show Azure alarms and performance metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot all kinds of issues with your cloud computing infrastructure as well as your entire network.
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If you have tried monitoring your Azure applications and services with Azure-native monitoring from Microsoft, you might have encountered several challenges.
A typical Azure architecture is usually very complex and dynamic. Applications and services are made up of various siloed Azure resources (for example, virtual machines) and each resource needs to be monitored individually.
This means that to comprehensively monitor an Azure application or service, you must navigate between the different monitored resources or analyze different Azure Monitor logs to get the full picture.
Microsoft Azure-native monitoring only allows you to set a very limited number of alerting conditions per rule.
This means that in order to be notified of an issue in a comprehensive way, you need to add multiple alerts for the same issue – and, of course, each alert costs extra.
In addition, notification methods are very limited and it is not possible to customize the available email notification templates.
While Azure functions from Microsoft lets you monitor all kinds of metrics of an Azure resource itself, it is not possible to deploy it as a monitoring solution for monitoring your entire IT environment.
This means that in order to get insights into the full IT stack including hardware like servers, routers, and switches, or other operating systems and software, you need further monitoring tools – which will make monitoring not only more complicated, but also way more expensive than necessary.
PRTG monitors your complete IT infrastructure – no matter if you have an on-premises, hybrid, or cloud environment. Watch your Azure app services alongside everything else: as an all-in-one monitoring tool, every PRTG subscription includes more than 250 preconfigured sensors and out-of-the-box support for the most popular vendors.
Sit back, relax, and let PRTG do the monitoring and alerting for you. If there is an issue with your Azure resources or any other problem in your ecosystem, PRTG alerts you immediately via highly customizable notifications. Define, for example, threshold values that trigger an alert, set granular alerting rules, and choose if you want to be informed via email, SMS, push notification, Teams or Slack message, and more.
Gone are the days where you have to log in to each Azure resource separately to check their health status. PRTG provides you with a central overview that consolidates all your monitoring data in an easy-to-read dashboard. What’s more: with PRTG, you can create your own, customized maps and dashboards that show your Azure monitoring metrics the way you want - for an enhanced end-user experience.
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
The Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine sensor monitors the status of a virtual machine (VM) in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:
The Microsoft Azure Subscription Cost sensor monitors the cost in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:
The Microsoft Azure Storage Account sensor monitors the storage account in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database sensor monitors the metrics of an Azure SQL Database (single database or elastic pool) in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with your Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
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Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is a public cloud computing platform from Microsoft. It offers a broad range of cloud services for all kinds of serverless IT operations, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Azure monitoring with Paessler PRTG keeps track of all the cloud services, VMs, critical applications, and the subscription costs of your Microsoft Azure infrastructure and visualizes all data on easy-to-read dashboards for easier workloads and improved workflows.
Azure Monitor is a built-in service in the Azure cloud that offers basic monitoring functionalities. For a more sophisticated monitoring with custom alerts and a complete overview over your entire IT infrastructure, you should choose a professional tool like Paessler PRTG.
By monitoring your Microsoft Azure Cloud, you cab assure all service are running smoothly. As soon as a problem occurs, you'll be notified immediately, and you'll be able to fix it quickly before great costs arise.
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive. On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
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