Azure Application Insights Monitoring Integration

Azure Application Insights enables you to monitor the performance and health of your Azure services.

With Site24x7's integration, you can now monitor your Azure Application Insights, configure thresholds, and receive alerts about critical issues.

Setup and configuration
Supported metrics
Threshold configuration
IT Automation
Configuration Rules

Setup and configuration

You can add Azure Application Insights while adding a new monitor or you can add it to an existing Azure monitor. Follow these steps to add the service.

Supported metrics

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Availability Test Duration	The duration of the availability test	Average	Milliseconds
Page Load Network Connect Time	The elapsed time between the user request and the network connection	Average	Milliseconds
Client Processing Time	The elapsed time between receiving the last byte of a document and loading the document object model (DOM)	Average	Milliseconds
Receiving Response Time	The elapsed time between receiving the first and the last bytes or until disconnection	Average	Milliseconds
Send Request Time	The elapsed time between the network connection and the receipt of the first byte	Average	Milliseconds
Browser Page Load Time	The elapsed time between the user request and the loading of the DOM, style sheets, scripts, and images	Average	Milliseconds
Dependency Calls	The number of calls made by the application to external resources	Count	Count
Dependency Duration	The average duration of the calls made by the application to external resources	Average	Milliseconds
Dependency Call Failures	The number of failed dependency calls made by the application to external resources	Count	Count
Exceptions	The combined count of all uncaught exceptions	Count	Count
Browser Exceptions	The number of uncaught exceptions thrown in the browser	Count	Count
Server Exceptions	The count of uncaught exceptions thrown in the server application	Count	Count
Page Views	The number of page views	Count	Count
Page View Load Time	The average page view loading time	Average	Milliseconds
Exception Rate	The count of handled and unhandled exceptions reported to Windows, including .NET exceptions and unmanaged exceptions that are converted into .NET exceptions	Average	Count per second
Available Memory	The amount of physical memory immediately available for allocation to a process or for system use	Average	Bytes
Process CPU	The percentage of elapsed time for all process threads to execute instructions	Average	Percent
Process I/O Rate	The total data read and written to files, the network, and devices	Average	Bytes per second
Processor Time	The percentage of time that the processor spends on non-idle threads	Average	Percent
Process Private Bytes	The average memory exclusively assigned to the monitored application's processes	Average	Bytes
HTTP Request Execution Time	The execution time of the most recent request	Average	Milliseconds
HTTP Requests In Application Queue	The length of the application request queue	Average	Count
HTTP Request Rate	The rate of all requests to the application from ASP.NET	Average	Count per second
Server Requests	The number of completed HTTP requests	Count	Count
Server Response Time	The elapsed time between receiving an HTTP request and sending the response	Average	Milliseconds
Failed Requests	The number of HTTP requests that are marked as failed	Count	Count
Server Request Rate	The rate at which the server requests are received	Average	Count per second

Threshold configuration

Global configuration

In the Site24x7 web client, go to the Admin section on the left navigation pane.
Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and select the Threshold and Availability (+) tab from the drop-down menu.
Click Add Threshold Profile in the top-right corner.
For Monitor Type, select Azure Application Insights.

You can now set the threshold values for all the metrics listed above.

Monitor-level configuration

In the Site24x7 web client, go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure Application Insights from the drop-down menu.
Choose a resource you would like to set a threshold for, then click the hamburger icon .
Select Edit, which directs you to the Edit Azure Application Insights Monitor page.
You can set the threshold values for the metrics by selecting Threshold and Availability.

You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT Automation tools that automatically resolve performance degradation issues. These tools react to events proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

Configuration Rules

With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can set parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors.

How to add a Configuration Rule