Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions including development and testing, running applications, and extending your data centre. With the power to deploy applications instantly, Azure enhances security measures, provides flexibility to operate within multiple environments and scales depending on your needs.

Monitors the performance and system health for your virtual machines running in Azure

Opsview Monitor's Azure Virtual Machines Opspack provides all the latest metrics to track your IaaS Virtual Machines metrics. Our Opspack allows you to pull all your metrics into dashboards, graphs and powerful reporting to get the information you need to diagnose performance issues.

The monitoring plugin for this Opspack has been tested with Python 2.7. In order for the Opspack to run, you will need to have some Python packages installed by running the pip python package tool.

If a cryptography error occurs when trying to install the Azure packages, you can run the commands which should fix the problem.

Debian and Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev python-pip

CentOS and RHEL

sudo yum install gcc libffi-devel python-devel openssl-devel python-pip

Common

When python-pip is installed, you can then run:

sudo pip install --upgrade pip==9.0.2
sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools
sudo pip install --upgrade requests
sudo pip install nagiosplugin
sudo pip install azure
sudo pip install azure-monitor

To monitor you Azure environment, you need to configure it for monitoring

This requires Administrator access on Azure. You need to retrieve the following credentials:

• Subscription ID
• Tenant/Directory ID
• Client/Application ID
• Secret Key

The Subscription ID can be found in the Subscriptions section under the All services section from the Azure dashboard

The Tenant/Directory ID can be found in the Azure Active Directory under the Properties section from the Azure dashboard

You need to create and register your application if you haven't already. Use the following documentation from Microsoft: Create an Azure Active Directory application

The Client/Application ID can be found in Azure Active Directory under the App registrations section from the Azure dashboard

You will need to create a Secret Key for your application, once this has been created its value will be hidden so save the value during creation

To create the Secret Key, select your application from the list, select the Settings within your application and then select the Keys option

There you can create a new key by adding the description and expiration period and the value will be generated

Navigate to the Subscriptions section and select the Subscription you selected before

In the Subscription to be monitored, click Access Control (IAM)

Then click the Add button, select Reader and select the application

If you are running more than one subscription these steps will need to be done for each one you wish to monitor

To configure and utilize this Opspack, you simply need to add the 'Cloud - Azure - Virtual Machines' Opspack to your Opsview Monitor system

Add 'AZURE_CREDENTIALS' to the host and set the Resource Group as its variable value

Then override the Subscription ID, Client ID, Secret Key and Tenant ID