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 |
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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 Report, Microsoft-Azure-agent-actions.
User roles
User Role | Product goal |
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IT Operation users | View all data in the system |
Technology Specialists |
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Solution Administrators |
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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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Monitoring | Monitor the performance of the following:
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Creating filters for monitoring |
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Viewing performance graphs | View graphs created using the monitor type's Key Performance Indicators (KPI). By using the graphing options, you can dynamically change the metric or other graph data. Graph data can be viewed hourly, weekly, monthly, and quarterly. |
Viewing events | View intelligent events on the selected attributes and for the selected duration. PATROL Agent events that are associated with monitors are also considered intelligent events. |
