Azure Resources Event Monitor

Alerts about Microsoft Azure resources and resource groups.

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Overview

The Azure Resources Event Monitor watches and alerts about Microsoft Azure resources and resource groups.

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Use Cases

• Detecting new or deleted resources
• Keeping a table of current resources handy

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

• Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if Azure cannot be contacted
  If the event monitor cannot contact Azure and this option is selected, FrameFlow will send you an alert of your choice.

• Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if there are new resources since the previous check
  Select this option to receive an alert if the event monitor detects new resources that have been added since the last time the event monitor performed checks.

• Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if a resource is updated
  Use this option to get alerts if a resource has been updated.

• Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if a resource is removed
  This option will send you an alert if a previously discovered resource is not found upon subsequent event monitor runs.

• Include a table of resources [before all/after all] event text
  Check this box to include a table of resources either before the event text the monitor generates or after. The following sub-options control the information that will be included in the table.

  • Include all the resources
    This option includes all resources in the table that will be generated each time the monitor runs.

  • Include new resources
    This option will include only new resources in the generated table.

• Only check the following resource groups
  Check this box if you want to specify the resource groups that will be checked. All others will be skipped. Enter multiple resource groups one per line.

• Resource groups to ignore
  Check this box and enter the names of resource groups that the event monitor should skip monitoring. All others will be checked.

• Only check the following resources
  Use this option to specify the resources you want checked. The event monitor will skip all others.

• Resources to ignore
  Use this option to specify resources you want the event monitor to ignore. All other resources will be checked.

• Only check the following resource types
  Check this box if you want to enter the resource types that the event monitor should check. Resource types that aren't listed here will not be checked.

• Resource types to ignore
  Use this option to list resource types to ignore. All other resource types will be checked.

Authentication and Security

The account used for authentication must have read permissions at the subscription level.

Protocols

• HTTPS

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Deleted Resources	List of deleted resources.
New Resources	List of new resources.
Resources	List of all resources.
Updated Resources	List of updated resources.

Sample Output