Azure Load Balancer Monitoring Integration
Azure Load Balancer scales your applications and offers high-availability, low-latency, high-throughput services. You can scale up to millions of flows for all TCP and UDP applications using Azure Load Balancer.
You can now monitor your load balancer, get precise analytics, set thresholds, automate operations, and stay on top of outages with Site24x7's integration.
Table of contents
Setup and configuration
You can add Azure Load Balancer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allocated SNAT Ports | Total number of Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) ports allocated within the time period | Average | Count |
| Byte Count | Total number of bytes transmitted within the time period | Average | Count |
| Health Probe Status | Average load balancer health probe status per time duration | Average | Count |
| Packet Count | Total number of packets transmitted within the time period | Average | Count |
| SYN Count | Total number of synchronize (SYN) packets transmitted within the time period | Average | Count |
| SNAT Connection Count | Total number of new SNAT connections created within the time period | Average | Count |
| Used SNAT Ports | Total number of SNAT ports used within the time period | Average | Count |
| Data Path Availability | Average load balancer data path availability per time duration | Average | Count |
Threshold configuration
Global configuration
- Go to the Admin section in the left navigation pane.
- Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and choose the Threshold and Availability (+) tab from the drop-down menu. Click Add Threshold Profile from the top-right corner.
- Set the monitor type as Azure Load Balancer. Now you can set the threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.
Monitor-level configuration
- Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure Load Balancer from the drop-down menu.
- Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold, then click the hamburger icon . Select Edit, which directs you to the Edit Azure Load Balancer 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
You can configure Site24x7's IT Automation to auto-resolve performance degradation issues.
How to configure IT Automation for a monitor
Configuration Rules
Configure parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors with Site24x7's Configuration Rules.
How to add a Configuration Rule
Related links:
How to add an Azure monitor.
How to integrate an Azure App Service monitor.
How to integrate Azure Virtual Machine monitor.
How to configure IT Automations for a monitor.
How to add a Configuration Rule.