Task: Monitor Resources with Azure Monitor

Video: Azure Monitor

Estimated time: 10 minutes

Goal

The goal of this task is to use the Azure monitor. This includes setting diagnostic logging for resources, monitoring activity and creating performance graphs.

Pre-requisites

Non-production Azure subscription
A virtual machine with required resources

Requirements

Requirement 1: Configure monitoring for Azure resources
Requirement 2: Generate activity
Requirement 3: Monitor activity logs with Azure monitor
Requirement 4: Generate a performance graph with Azure monitor

Pre-requisite setup

This task requires a virtual machine, network interface, public IP address, virtual network and bastion host. To deploy the resources required for this task, run the following from a bash cloud shell:

curl https://inedemoassets.blob.core.windows.net/taskfiles/azure_admin/deploy-3509T140-pre.sh | sh

This script will deploy the following resources:

Setting	Value
Virtual network	webApp-vnet
NSG	webApp-nsg
VM	webApp-vm
VM public IP	webApp-vm-pip
Storage account	<a unique name>
Web app	<a unique name>
Bastion	webApp-bastion
Bastion public IP	webApp-bastion-pip

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Important: Record the password output. You will need it for requirement 3.

Requirement 1: Configure monitoring for Azure resources

To meet this requirement you must configure diagnostics for several resources. Configure each of the following resources to write 7 days* worth of diagnostic data to the storage account that was provisioned during the pre-requisite setup:

webApp-bastion Bastion host
webApp-nic network interface
webApp-bastion-pip public IP
webApp-vm virtual machine

*Not all resources will allow you to set the retention period.

Requirement 2: Generate activity

For this requirement you will log onto the virtual machine using the Bastion connection and generate a network load. You will install software on the virtual machine to generate the load. To complete this requirement:

Connect to the webApp-vm virtual machine via the Bastion host:
Navigate to the webApp-vm blade in the Azure portal
Select the Connect button and choose the Bastion option.
Login using student for the user name and the password generated during the pre-requisite deployment.
Generate network traffic by running the following statements:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install -y npm

Requirement 3: Monitor activity logs with Azure monitor

Now you need to confirm that activity for the resources is accessible from Azure monitor. Navigate to the Activity log view of the monitor blade in the Azure portal. Verify activity logging as follows:

Filter the list to only show activity from the task-mntr-rg resource group.
Add a filter to only show virtual machines.
Find the activity record for configuring diagnostics on the virtual machine.
View the JSON data for the record.

Requirement 4: Generate a performance graph with Azure monitor

For the final requirement, you will build a metrics chart in Azure monitor. Display data for the last 30 minutes for the following metrics:

Resource	Metric
webApp-vm	Disk write bytes
webApp-nic	Bytes received
webApp-pip	Byte count

Cleanup

When you have completed this task, delete the task-mntr-rg resource group.