Product overview


PATROL for Microsoft Azure lets you monitor and manage the availability and performance of your Microsoft Azure Services. It issues visual warnings and alarms when thresholds are exceeded, allowing easy identification of problem areas. The KM monitors the following Azure Services:

  • App Services
  • Storage Accounts
  • SQL Server and Database
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Note: With the PATROL for Microsoft Azure 2.1.00 release, support for Microsoft Azure Cloud Service (Classic) has been discontinued. 


PATROL for Microsoft Azure monitors services that are provided by Microsoft Azure for instance availability. It reports and monitors availability and performance across critical areas of Azure Services. It issues visual warnings and alarms when thresholds are exceeded, allowing easy identification of problem areas. It enables the event-based triggering of automatic user-supplied recovery or intervention actions. 


Automatic discovery and monitoring of Azure Services

PATROL for Microsoft Azure lets you monitor and manage the availability and performance of your Azure Services. 

Monitored Azure Service

Description

App Services

Monitors and analyses the performance and availability of app service, app service environment, and app service plan.

For a list of available attributes, see the following monitor types:

Microsoft SQL Server and Database

Monitors availability of the SQL Server. Provides information about CPU utilization, database size percentage, number of deadlocks, database throughput unit limit of the SQL database.

For a list of available attributes, see the following monitor types:

Storage

Monitors availability of the Storage Account. Provides information about billable requests, total egress, and ingress utilized by the Azure storage blob, storage queue, and storage table. 

For a list of available attributes, see the following monitor types:

Virtual Machines

Monitors availability of the Virtual Machines. Provides information about memory, disk, process, remote calls, and network usage of the virtual machines.

For a list of available attributes, see the following monitor types:

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Monitors availability of the Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Provides information about CPU, Memory, Disk, Process, and Network usage of host and instance virtual machine scale sets

For a list of available attributes, see the following monitor types:

Enable or disable monitored services

Filters are available at each monitor type level to enable or disable the component from monitoring. You can filter one or more of the following monitors to streamline your configuration. For more information, see Configuring-the-Microsoft-Azure-monitor-profile

  • App Services
  • Storage Account
  • Virtual Machine
  • Microsoft SQL Server and Database
  • Virtual Machine Scale Set

Virtual Machines Host metrics monitoring

PATROL for Microsoft Azure monitors performance of host virtual machines. This support has been introduced in 2.1 version of the KM. 

Generate billing reports

You can generate billing reports of your respective subscriptions by using the menu command or agent actions available in the KM. For more information, see Get Billing ReportMicrosoft-Azure-agent-actions.

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Product features

The PATROL for Microsoft Azure provides these capabilities for addressing the following business goals:

Features

Capabilities

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