It’s crucial to watch the well being of your digital machine. However how a lot time do you spend reviewing every metric and alert to watch the well being of a digital machine?
We’re saying the preview of Azure Monitor for digital machines visitor well being characteristic that screens the well being of your digital machines and fires an alert when any parameter being monitored is exterior the appropriate vary. This characteristic offers you:
- A easy expertise to watch the general well being of your digital machine.
- Out-of-the-box well being screens based mostly on key VM metrics to trace the well being of your digital machine.
- Out-of-the-box alerts to inform if the digital machine is unhealthy.
Digital machine visitor well being characteristic has a parent-child hierarchical mannequin. It screens the well being state of CPU, disks, and reminiscence for a digital machine and notifies the shopper concerning the adjustments. The three states—wholesome, warning, and significant—are outlined based mostly on the thresholds set by the shopper for every baby monitor. Every monitor measures the well being of a specific part. The general well being of the digital machine is set by the well being of its particular person screens. The highest degree monitor on the VM teams the well being state of all of the baby screens and offers a single well being state of the digital machine. It matches the state of the kid monitor with the least wholesome state.
Get began
You possibly can view the well being of every VM in your subscription and useful resource group within the Visitor VM well being column from the get began web page of Azure Monitor for digital machines.
Well being tree
You possibly can view the detailed well being standing of the VM by clicking on the well being standing from the get began web page. Within the aspect pane, the overview tab offers an outline of the monitor, the final time it was evaluated, and values sampled to find out the present well being state. The historical past tab lists the historical past of state adjustments for the monitor. You possibly can view and modify the thresholds for important and warning states for every monitor from the configuration tab. From this tab, it’s also possible to allow the alert standing when you want to obtain an alert upon the state change of the monitor.
Pricing
There isn’t any direct price for the visitor well being characteristic, however there’s a price for ingestion and storage of well being state information within the Log Analytics workspace. All information is saved within the HealthStateChangeEvent desk.
Supported OS and areas
For the preview, solely Azure Digital Machines are supported. Digital machine scale units and Azure Arc for servers usually are not at the moment supported.
- Digital machine should run one of many following working programs:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Home windows Server 2012 or later
- Digital machine and Log Analytics workspace have to be situated in one of many areas as listed right here.
Try our full documentation to get extra particulars. We’d love to listen to what you want and don’t like about this characteristic, and the place you’d like us to take it. Please click on Present Suggestions within the consumer expertise to share your ideas.
