Deploy to Single VM

For a single VM, go to the VMs blade, scroll down to the “Monitoring” section, select “Insights” and press “Try now”

The Azure Monitor Insights Onboarding wizard will open. If your VM is already onboard at a Log Analytics workspace just click Enable. Otherwize select a Log Analytics workspace or create one.

You will start seeing data form the VM in about 20-30 minutes.

Deploy to multiple VMs using Azure Policy

For deploying to multiple VMs, the easiest way is to use Azure Policy

Go to the Azure Policy, select Assignments and press “Assign initiative”

The first option is the Scope. Press the three dots “…” at the Scope field. You can choose a a Management Group, a Subscription or a Resource Group. So if you just select a Management Group (And don’t select subscription and resource group), this policy will apply to all Subscriptions under the Management Group and of course to all resources of the subscription. If you choose a Subscription (and don’t select a resource group then the policy will apply to all resources of the subscription. Finally if you choose a resource group then the policy will apply only to this resource group. Later we will see how to select specific VMs in the Subscription or Resource group.

After selecting the Scope you can add exclusions. There you can check the VMs you don’t want this policy to apply.

The next step is to select the Policy. At the BASICS section, press the three dots “…” near the “Initiative definition” and find the “Enable Azure Monitor for VMs”

Next step is to configure the Parameters. There select the Log Analytics workspace that the VM will onboard, or create a new one. Optionally you can provide a list of VMs instead of adding all of them

Finally press Apply. Back at the Azure Policy main menu you will see the new Definition Assignment.

View the Health / Performance / Service Map of the VMs

To view the Azure Monitor of the VMs, go to the VM that you have enabled Insights, select the Insights blade and you will be able to see the health status not only for the common CPU. Memory, Disk,

But also for the services that run inside the VM and the Azure Monitor discovered.

By clicking on any service you will have a list of all logs of this service

At the performance section you have the ability to select time range and have performance analytics for a requisted period of time

Finally at the MAp, you have a service map of the services and ports that are open and listening

Product Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/insights/vminsights-overview

Pantelis Apostolidis

Pantelis Apostolidis is a Sr. Specialist, Azure at Microsoft and a former Microsoft Azure MVP. For the last 20 years, Pantelis has been involved to major cloud projects in Greece and abroad, helping companies to adopt and deploy cloud technologies, driving business value. He is entitled to a lot of Microsoft Expert Certifications, demonstrating his proven experience in delivering high quality solutions. He is an author, blogger and he is acting as a spokesperson for conferences, workshops and webinars. He is also an active member of several communities as a moderator in azureheads.gr and autoexec.gr. Follow him on Twitter @papostolidis.

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In this article we will create a CPU Performance monitor View for our servers at the Azure Log Analytics (OMS) Portal.

At the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) portal press the + button to create a new View

The View Designer workspace will open. Select the “Line chart & callout”

At the Properties blade enter a Name, something like “CPU Performance Monitor”, add the below query and press Apply

Type:Perf CounterName="% Processor Time" InstanceName="_Total" | measure avg(CounterValue) by Computer Interval 10Minutes

Pressing Apply you will see at the Preview window the “Name” and the CPU Performance of all the Windows servers that are monitored by OMS agent.

The next step is to press the “+ View” tab and add a “Stack of line charts

The “Stack of line charts” will add three charts per row and we can use it to add our servers. We will create something like that:

So, at the Properties blade add a name and a query for each server needs to be monitored and press Apply. For more than three servers add more “Stack of line charts”.

The query is the below, just change the Computer = “server.domain.local” with your servers.

Type:Perf CounterName="% Processor Time" InstanceName="_Total" AND Computer = "server.domain.local" | measure Avg(CounterValue) as 'CPU_Percentage' by Computer Interval 10Minutes

Finally press “Save” at the View Designer

The result is a CPU Performance monitor for all servers at the OMS Portal.

And when you press it you have the CPU Performance Monitor of all added servers.

Stay tuned for the next part

Pantelis Apostolidis

Pantelis Apostolidis is a Sr. Specialist, Azure at Microsoft and a former Microsoft Azure MVP. For the last 20 years, Pantelis has been involved to major cloud projects in Greece and abroad, helping companies to adopt and deploy cloud technologies, driving business value. He is entitled to a lot of Microsoft Expert Certifications, demonstrating his proven experience in delivering high quality solutions. He is an author, blogger and he is acting as a spokesperson for conferences, workshops and webinars. He is also an active member of several communities as a moderator in azureheads.gr and autoexec.gr. Follow him on Twitter @papostolidis.

www.cloudcorner.gr

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