Azure App Service Monitoring Integration

Microsoft Azure enables you to create applications fast. You can easily create enterprise-ready web and mobile apps for any platform or device and deploy them on scalable and reliable cloud infrastructures using Azure App Service.

With Site24x7's integration support with Azure App Service, you can now monitor your hosted applications with accurate metrics, configure thresholds, and get instant alerts when there is a threshold breach.

Setup and configuration

Adding Azure App Service while configuring new Azure monitor

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

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

Adding Azure App Service to an existing Azure monitor

If you already have an Azure monitor configured for the tenant, you can add the Azure App Service using the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Infrastructure Dashboard, Inventory Dashboard, or Management Actions from the left navigation pane of the Azure Monitor for which you wish to add Azure App Service.
2. Click this icon and then the Edit option, which will bring you to the Edit Azure Monitor page.
3. In the Edit Azure Monitor page, select the corresponding Subscription and the Resource Group from the drop-down menu and select Azure App Service from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.

After successful configuration, go to Cloud > Azure, select Azure App Service from the the Azure monitor drop-down. Now you can view the discovered App services.

Note

It will take up to 15-30 minutes to discover new Azure resources. For the immediate discovery of the selected configuration, go to the Infrastructure Dashboard of the Azure monitor and click the Discover Now option from this icon.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Azure App Service monitor collects the metric data of every minute and the statuses from your applications in a five minute interval.

Supported metrics

The following metrics are collected:

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Connections	The number of bound sockets existing in the sandbox (w3wp.exe and its child processes). A bound socket is created by calling bind()/connect() APIs and remains until said socket is closed with CloseHandle()/closesocket()	Average	Count
Memory Working Set	The current amount of memory used by the app	Average	Bytes
Average Memory Working Set	The average amount of memory used by the app	Average	Bytes
Average Response Time	The average time taken for the app to serve requests	Average	Seconds
Response Time	The time taken for the app to serve the requests	Average	Seconds
Data In	The amount of incoming bandwidth consumed by the app	Average	Bytes
Data Out	The amount of outgoing bandwidth consumed by the app	Average	Bytes
CPU Time	The amount of CPU consumed by the app	Average	Seconds
Current Assemblies	The current number of assemblies loaded across all AppDomains in the application	Average	Count
Gen 0 Garbage Collections	The number of times the generation 0 objects are garbage collected since the start of the app process. Higher generation garbage collections (GCs) include all lower generation GCs	Average	Count
Gen 1 Garbage Collections	The number of times the Gen 1 objects are garbage collected since the start of the app process. Higher generation GCs include all lower generation GCs	Average	Count
Gen 2 Garbage Collections	The number of times the Gen 2 objects are garbage collected since the start of the app process	Average	Count
Handle Count	The total number of handles currently opened by the app process	Average	Count
Http 101	The total number of requests resulting in an HTTP 101 status code	Total	Count
Http 401	The total number of requests resulting in an HTTP 401 status code	Total	Count
Http 403	The total number of requests resulting in an HTTP 403 status code	Total	Count
Http 404	The total number of requests resulting in an HTTP 404 status code	Total	Count
Http 406	The total number of requests resulting in an HTTP 406 status code	Total	Count
Thread Count	The number of threads currently active in the app process	Total	Count
Http 2xx	The count of requests resulting in an HTTP status code greater than or equal to 200 but less than 300	Average	Count
Http 3xx	The count of requests resulting in an HTTP status code greater than or equal to 300 but less than 400	Average	Count
Http 4xx	The count of requests resulting in an HTTP status code greater than or equal to 400 but less than 500	Average	Count
Http Server Errors	The count of requests resulting in an HTTP status code greater than or equal to 500 but less than 600	Average	Count
IO Other Bytes per Second	The rate at which the app process is issuing bytes to input or output (I/O) operations that don't involve data, such as control operations	Average	Bytes per second
IO Other Operations per Second	The rate at which the app process is issuing I/O operations that aren't read or write operations	Average	Bytes per second
IO Read Bytes per Second	The rate at which the app process is reading bytes from I/O operations	Average	Bytes per second
IO Read Operations per Second	The rate at which the app process is issuing read I/O operations	Average	Bytes per second
IO Write Bytes per Second	The rate at which the app process is writing bytes to I/O operations	Average	Bytes per second
IO Write Operations per Second	The rate at which the app process is issuing write I/O operations	Average	Bytes per second
Requests	The total number of requests regardless of their resulting HTTP status code	Total	Count
Private Bytes	The current size of memory that the app process has allocated that can't be shared with other processes	Average	Bytes
Requests in Application Queue	The average number of requests in the application request queue	Average	Count
Health Check Status	The health check data of the app	Average	Count
File System Usage	The amount of file system consumed by the app	Average	Bytes

Threshold configuration

Global configuration

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

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

Monitor-level configuration

1. Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure App Service from the drop-down menu.
2. Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold and then click this icon on the top. Choose the Edit option, which directs you to the Edit Azure App Service Monitor page.
3. 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 offers a set of exclusive IT automation tools to auto-resolve performance degradation issues. These react to an event or incident proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention. These tools help automate repetitive tasks and automatically remediate threshold breaches.

How to configure IT automations for a monitor

Configuration Rules

Editing multiple monitors to configure Threshold profile, Notification profile, Tags, Monitor groups and other settings can be a tedious process. With the Configuration Rules, you can automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. While adding new monitors, you can run a check, and associate any of the previously created rules that match the monitor configurations.

How to add a configuration rule

Summary

The summary tab will show the performance data organized by time for the above-mentioned metrics.

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

Note

If the Resource Log option is enabled, you can also view the stats of the HTTP status code and the response time analysis.

Configuration Details

The Configuration Details tab provides details of an application instance. Here, you will find the enabled Host Names, Site Properties, SSL Certificates, Server Farm Details, and so on.

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

Resource Logs

Monitor all the operations performed within the Azure App Service resources with the resource logs. To enable resource logs, follow the steps in the document.

You can view the Resource Logs by navigating to Cloud > Azure > Azure App Service, click a resource, and then select the Resource Logs tab.

Forecast

The Forecasting Engine of Site24x7 enables you to predict the future points of Azure App Service performance metrics based on historical observations. To predict your metric value for the next seven days, it takes about fifteen to thirty days of historical data to observe.

You can view the forecast charts by navigating to the Cloud section in the left navigation pane.
Select Azure App Service from the Azure drop-down, click a resource, and then choose the Forecast tab.

Reports

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

To view reports for Azure App Service:

Navigate to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
Select Azure App Service from the menu on the left.

You can find the Availability Summary Report and the Performance Report for the selected monitor. You can also get the Inventory Report, Summary Report, Availability Summary Report, Health Trend Report, and the Performance Report for all the Azure App Service monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the App Service Monitor.

Go to the Summary tab of a resource, and get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking on Availability or Downtime. Similarly, you can view the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking on any chart title.

Check out the list of reports offered by Site24x7 for your individual monitor types.