We have a requirement to monitor the Azure express route links for the following metrics; * Interface monitoring * BGP monitoring * VRF SVI/OSPF monitoring * QoS monitoring * Throughput Is there a way to do this via NPM, we dont have SAM nor are we able to monitor the VMs, so installing the agent isn't really an option at present. We could view their status via a REST API call, does NPM have this functionality? Thanks

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Azure express route monitoring

We have a requirement to monitor the Azure express route links for the following metrics;

Interface monitoring
BGP monitoring
VRF SVI/OSPF monitoring
QoS monitoring
Throughput

Is there a way to do this via NPM, we dont have SAM nor are we able to monitor the VMs, so installing the agent isn't really an option at present. We could view their status via a REST API call, does NPM have this functionality?

Thanks

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Seashore

Monitoring things in Azure is mostly done by REST calls or Powershell scripts. That can only be done with the SAM module. Don't see that you can do that with only NPM.

00shep

Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm struggling to come up with a throughput monitor for Azure ExpressRoute. I deployed the Azure native NPM solution that integrates with Log Analytics - it's terrible. The interface is buggy. The agents randomly disappear from the config if I configure alerts. Generally not a good solution. Bugs aside, log analytics log ingestion lags behind by about 30 minutes or so. So operationally it's not good for monitoring.

I have reviewed numerous 3rd parties but I suspect they just lack visibility to that layer of the stack. I cannot find a simple way to get the data. I do own SAM and have written the Kusto to pull the data. I could probably translate that to REST/JSON pretty easily. But I still have the delay issues.

Just a sample of the LA query in case someone finds it useful. (sub BitsInPerSecond with BitsOutPerSecond to get Egress)

NetworkMonitoring
| where SubType == "ERCircuitTotalUtilization"
| top 5 by TimeGenerated
| summarize avg(BitsInPerSecond)

Is there a way to get Orion agents on both ends and to do what Azure NPM attempts to do. Technically speaking, Azure is sampling every 1 min --- The data is there. I just need something the same behavior in Orion.

abdullah.khalid

Hi 00shep,

Did you make any progress ?