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.

Opsview Monitor's Azure Virtual Machines Opspack provides all the latest metrics to track your IAAS VM 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.

Tested with Python 2.7. In order for the Opspack to run, you will need to have these packages installed by running the commands using pip.

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

Ubuntu

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

Centos

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

sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install requests
pip install nagiosplugin
pip install azure
pip install azure.monitor
pip install azure.mgmt

Setup Azure for Monitoring

Step 1: This requires Admin access to Azure.

For the plugin to be able to connect to Azure, you will need the subscription ID, Client ID (Application ID), Secret Key and your Tenant ID (Directory ID).

First, the subscription ID can be found in the subscriptions section under the more services section.

Step 2 : Next the Tenant ID (Directory ID) can be found in the properties of the Azure Active Directory.

The client ID and Secret Key require the setup of an App in the App Registration.

Press the add button and give the App a Name, set the app type and create a sign-on URL.

Step 3: The Client ID called Application ID can be found in the properties of your new App.

Step 4: The Secret Key can be created by clicking on the All Settings of your new App and then going into the keys section.

There you can create a new key by adding the description, when it will expire and the value.

The Secret Key will be created from these details.

Step 5: The final step is to give access to the subscription you wish to monitor.

To do this, navigate to the Subscriptions section of Azure.

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

Then click the add button and select Reader. After that, select the new App we created.

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

Configure

Step 1: Add the host template and the 'Cloud - Azure - Virtual Machines' Opspack to the host monitoring the VM's software.

Step 2: Add and configure the host Variables tab, add in 'AZURE_CREDENTIALS' and give it the resource group name in the value location, Subscription ID, Client ID, Secret Key and Tenant ID.

Step 3: Reload and view the VM statistics.