Azure Metrics Event Monitor

Watches Microsoft Azure metrics and alerts about their conditions.

Overview

The Azure Metrics Event Monitor watches and alerts on metrics from Microsoft Azure that you choose.

This event monitor provides the following options:

Namespace
Enter the namespace that corresponds with the metric you want to monitor.
Metric Name
Enter the name of the metric you want to monitor.
Resource
Enter the resource type that matches your Azure metric.
Aggregation
Select the aggregation type you want to use with your metric: average, maximum, minimum, total, or count.
Alert if the value is
Choose the conditions for alerting: greater than, less than, or equal to the value you input in the following field.
Value
Enter the value that the event monitor will compare the detected metric value with.
Data Type
Enter the type of data that the Azure metric you're monitoring represents.
Level
Enter the level at which your Azure metric is stored.

Note: You can add as many Azure metrics as you want, all in one event monitor. Use the "Add New Entry" button to generate as many rows as needed.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if Azure cannot be contacted
Use this option to alert if the event monitor cannot connect to Microsoft Azure.
Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if data for the specified metric is missing
This alerting option will send a notification of your choice of severity if the event monitor cannot find data for the specified metric.

Important: This event monitor queries Azure Metrics. Azure charges your account based on the computation cost of the queries you run.

The account used for authentication must have an app registration that has User.Read permissions at the delegated level.

The data points generated by this event monitor correlate 1:1 with the Azure metrics you choose to monitor.