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How to Monitor Azure PaaS and O365 services

Hello,

I am searching the documentation on How to configure and monitor Azure PaaS and O365 services using SAM. I haven't seen any step by step documentation yet. I have already opened a support ticket 24hours back and waiting for the response.

Meanwhile , if any of you have already done it, please share some references.

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mthangav

Hello All,

At last I managed to get the scripts working, none of the links here provides a complete step by step procedure.

Here is the way I went for it

1.Install Powershell on the Main Poller.

2.Install AzureRM module (Install-Module -Name AzureRM -AllowClobber)

3. Add a node portal.azure.com

4.Go to SAM-Manage Templates - Azure - Choose-Microsoft Azure SQL DB - Edit

5. Select all the component monitor and click multiple edit

6.select script argument and enter your
subcriptionID,TenantID,ApplicationID,SecretKey=yourclientsecret,Database-Name

7. save and submitt

8. Go to Application Monitor template -> select- SQL Database Template --> Assign a Node--select -portal.azure.com; click next

9. Choose Inherit credentials from Template and Test by choosing the node --portal.azure.com

If you Azure credentials are proper it should start working.

I have also tried this method for Azure Storage and it works, only difference is in step 6, you need to provide resource group name like :

subcriptionID,TenantID,ApplicationID,SecretKey=yourclientsecret,storageaccountname,resourcegroup

The only challenge I see is how to assign the same script to multiple storage accounts or multiple SQL Database or WebApps ? Any thoughts on this ?

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neomatrix1217

Azure Paas

https://www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor/use-cases/azure-paas-monitoring

Office 365

https://www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor/use-cases/office-365-monitoring

mthangav

I have seen this link and is not really helpful to get the Azure PaaS service monitor. I am still not able to find a proper structured documentation from where to start.

I assume, the first step would be to deploy the Powershell and Azure CLI module on the Main poller and then I am lost.

Some of the videos and documentation shows directly that they have have template or assigning a template to a Node and some statistics but non of the documents tells how/where do you configure the credentials of Azure. I don't understand how can you assign a template to a node when PaaS service doesn't have a node..there seems to be lot of missing pieces in the documentation.

I would be really helpful if someone who has done this can provide proper steps.

serena

Have you seen our getting started documentation? https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Configure-Microsoft-Azure-for-cloud-monitoring-in-the-Orion-Platform

mthangav

Hello Serena,

Thanks and I am glad that you responded, I have gone through pretty much a lot of links and also your Video which was good but still it lacks how to start with which I am struggling with currently.

I have already created the service principal in Azure and I am using this to monitor the Azure IaaS from Solarwinds, this works pretty straight forward and I can get the relevant statistics from Azure VMs.

The challenge is monitoring the PaaS services. I see we have the templates in the SAM for monitoring the PaaS.

The Gap I see is,

To which node I should assign this Azure PaaS template to ? What should that node be ? How do I create that node to which Azure PaaS template can be applied. Do I need to install Azure Powershell ? if so on the Main Poller or all the pollers ?

itengineer

Is this available on the SAM application Monitoring templates https://SW-MON/Orion/APM/Admin/ApplicationTemplates.aspx ?

serena

Yes these templates are available. https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/SAM/Content/SAM-Microsoft-Azure.htm

In addition in our current release candidate that is available in your customer portal, we've improved the API poller to handle https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Documents/SAM-2020-2-Release-Candidate-Now-Available/ta-p/590357 simplified Azure monitoring as well that is more API endpoint friendly

jan.rachwalik

SAM 2020.2.1 has dedicated Microsoft 365 API Poller templates that are good alternative for Office 365 SAM templates: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/sam/Content/Release_Notes/sam_2020-2-1_release_notes.htm

sachindra

refer this
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/server-application-monitor-sam/f/forum/93220/how-to-monitor-any-azure-services-using-api-polling

would you please mark this as a correct answer