Azure virtual machines are monitored based on the parameters or the attributes listed below. These attributes provide information about the functioning of Azure Virtual machines. You can also configure thresholds to the numerical attributes based on these details and get notified when the thresholds are violated.
Prerequisites for monitoring Azure VM metrics: Click here
Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on Azure Virtual Machines under the Cloud Apps section. Displayed is the Azure Virtual Machine bulk configuration view distributed into three tabs:
Click on the monitor name to see all the server details listed under the following tabs:
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| Name | Display name of the Virtual machine |
| Subscription ID | Subscription ID of the Azure subscription which contains this VM |
| Virtual Machine name | Name of the Virtual machine |
| Virtual Machine Resource ID | Resource ID of the Virtual machine |
| Enable Guest OS monitoring | Guest OS monitoring option given in Edit monitor page |
| Username | VM's username |
| Timeout | Timeout Duration (seconds) |
| Associated groups | The monitor groups to which this monitor is associated |
| Last polled at | Specifies the time at which the last poll was performed |
| Next poll at | Specifies the time at which the next poll is scheduled |
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| CPU UTILIZATION | ||||
| CPU Utilization | Amount of CPU utilized by the virtual machine (in %). |  |
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| MEMORY METRICS ** | ||||
| Physical Memory Utilization | Percentage of RAM used | |
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| Free Physical Memory | Amount of free RAM | |
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| CPU CREDITS (Applicable only for B-series virtual machines) | ||||
| CPU Credits Consumed | Number of credits consumed by the virtual machine |  |
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| CPU Credits Remaining | Remaining number of credits available for the virtual machine. | |
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| PROCESSOR METRICS ** | ||||
| % Priviledged Time | Percentage of time the processor was running in privileged mode | |
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| % User Time | Percentage of time the processor was running in user mode | |
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| Processor Frequency | |
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| MEMORY (COMMITTED vs AVAILABLE) ** | ||||
| Committed Bytes | Amount of commited Virtual Memory | |
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| Available Bytes | Amount of available Physical Memory | |
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| % Committed Bytes In Use | Ratio of Committed Bytes to the Commit Limit | |
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| POOL (PAGED vs NONPAGED) ** | ||||
| Pool Paged Bytes | Size in bytes of the paged pool | |
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| Pool Nonpaged Bytes | Size in bytes of physical memory that cannot be written to disk eventhough it is not in use | |
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| MEMORY FAULTS ** | ||||
| Page Faults/sec | Number of page faults per second. | |
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| DISK UTILIZATION * | ||||
| Disk | Disk Partition | |
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| Disk Usage | Disk Free space & Used space | |
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| Total Size (MB) | Total disk size | |
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| Used (%) | Used disk space as percentage | |
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| Used (MB) | Used disk space | |
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| Free (%) | Free disk space as percentage | |
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| Free MB | Free disk space | |
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| DISK IO STATISTICS * | ||||
| Disk | Disk partition | |
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| Transfers/Sec | The number of read/write operations on the disk that occur each second | |
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| Writes/sec | The percentage of elapsed time that the disk drive was busy servicing write requests | |
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| Reads/Sec | The percentage of elapsed time that the disk drive was busy servicing read requests | |
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| % Busy Time | The percentage of time the disk was busy | |
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| Average queue length | The average number of both read and write requests that were queued for the disk during the sample interval | |
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| Disk Read Bytes/sec ** | Bytes read from the disc per second | |
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| Disk Write Bytes/sec ** | Bytes written on the disc per second | |
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| DISK SPACING | ||||
| Disk Name | Name of the hard disk | |
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| VHD URI | Virtual hard disk URI that identifies this disk | |
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| Disk Size | Total size of the disk | |
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| READ THROUGHPUT | ||||
| OS Disk Read Throughput | Amount of data read from OS disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| Data Disk Read Throughput | Amount of data read from data disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| WRITE THROUGHPUT | ||||
| OS Disk Write Throughput | Amount of data written to OS disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| Data Disk Write Throughput | Amount of data written to data disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| DISK I/O OPS | ||||
| Disk Read Ops | Number of disk read IOPS (in Ops/sec). | |
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| Disk Write Ops | Number of disk write IOPS (in Ops/sec). | |
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| NETWORK INTERFACE * | ||||
| Network Interface | The name of the network interface | |
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| Speed (Mbps) | The estimate of the current bandwidth in Mbps | |
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| Input traffic (KBps) | The rate at which packets are received on the interface, in kilo bytes per second. | |
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| Input Utilization (%) | Input traffic percentage | |
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| Output traffic (KBps) | The rate at which packets are sent on the interface, in kilo bytes per second. | |
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| Output Utilization (%) | Output traffic percentage | |
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| Inbound Errors | Number of packets that could not be received | |
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| Outbound Errors | Number of packets that could not be sent | |
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| NETWORK TRAFFIC | ||||
| Incoming Traffic | Amount of data received on all network interfaces by the virtual machine (in KB/min). | |
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| Outgoing Traffic | Amount of data transmitted from all network interfaces by the virtual machine (in KB/min). | |
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| THREAD STATS ** | ||||
| Context switches/sec | The total number of context switches per sec | |
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| PROCESS STATS ** | ||||
| Process count | The total number of processes | |
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| HANDLES ** | ||||
| Handle count | The total number of handles | |
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| SYSTEM INFORMATION | ||||
| Resource Name | Virtual machine name | |
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| Resource ID | Virtual machine resource ID | |
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| Status | State of the VM | |
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| Resource Group Name | The resource group which has this VM | |
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| VM Size | Size of the VM | |
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| Location | Location at which the VM is set up | |
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| Public IP Address | Public IP of the VM | |
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| Private IP Address | Private IP of the VM | |
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| OS INFORMATION | ||||
| OS Type | VM's Operating system | |
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| VM Image | VM server configuration | |
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| NETWORK INTERFACE | ||||
| Network Interface Name | The name of the network interface | |
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| Network Interface ID | The ID of the network interface | |
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| MAC Address | MAC address of the network | |
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| Network security group ID | Network security group of the network interface | |
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The below mentioned metrics are monitored for Linux VM:
| Parameter | Description |
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| CPU UTILIZATION | ||||
| CPU Utilization | Amount of CPU utilized by the virtual machine (in %). | |
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| CPU CREDITS (Applicable only for B-series virtual machines) | ||||
| CPU Credits Consumed | Number of credits consumed by the virtual machine | |
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| CPU Credits Remaining | Remaining number of credits available for the virtual machine. | |
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| CPU METRICS ** | ||||
| IO Wait Time (%) | Percentage of time that the processor is waiting (i.e. is in an idle state and does nothing), during which there in fact was outstanding disk I/O requests. | |
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| Idle Time (%) | Percentage of time that the processor was idle | |
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| Processor Time(Linux) (%) | Percentage of time that the processor was used for processing instructions of a computer program or operating system | |
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| MEMORY DETAILS ** | ||||
| Available Memory | The amount of memory available (MB) | |
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| Used Memory | The amount of memory used (MB) | |
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| Available Memory % | Percentage of memory available to the total memory | |
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| Used Swap Memory % | Percentage of used swap memory to the total swap memory | |
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OAuth Mode
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| DISK METRICS ** | ||||
| Average Read Time | Average time taken for a read operation | |
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| Average Write time | Average time taken for a write operation | |
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| Read Bytes/sec | Number of bytes read per second | |
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| Write Bytes/sec | Number of bytes write per second | |
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| READ THROUGHPUT | ||||
| OS Disk Read Throughput | Amount of data read from OS disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| Data Disk Read Throughput | Amount of data read from data disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| WRITE THROUGHPUT | ||||
| OS Disk Write Throughput | Amount of data written to OS disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| Data Disk Write Throughput | Amount of data written to data disk during monitoring period (in KB/sec). | |
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| DISK I/O OPS | ||||
| Disk Read Ops | Number of disk read IOPS (in Ops/sec). | |
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| Disk Write Ops | Number of disk write IOPS (in Ops/sec). | |
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| DISK SPACING | ||||
| Disk Name | Name of the hard disk | |
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| VHD URI | Virtual hard disk URI that identifies this disk | |
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| Disk Size | Total size of the disk | |
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Configuration Table lists Virtual machine details like Status, Location, IP, Network interface, MAC address and Network Security Group.
