Monitoring your Azure deployments is key to observing how your cloud migration goes and/or how Microsoft IaaS/PaaS platforms behave over time while running your applications.

This summer, we’ve brought several enhancements to Azure monitoring to align all probes and packs to the latest best practices. That might impact your current configuration so be careful when updating your Monitoring Packs to avoid false positives. 

We’ve also added some minor improvements to existing Packs our customers expected to have a better vision of what’s going on in detail. 

">Monitoring Packs refactoring 

Here is the list of the Packs that benefit from the latest code optimization and documentation layout: 

• Azure Virtual Machine

• Azure Express Route

• Azure SQL Database

• Azure SQL Server

• Azure Virtual Network

• Azure VPN Gateway

">Enhancements 

• Last month, we released new tenant discovery host discovery rules to reduce the number of jobs to configure to discover all your Azure assets (Azure Discover Tenant Discovery). To deal with a huge number of assets (more than 20k), we introduced a new –select-type option to reduce the scope of the discovery and ignore resource types that are irrelevant.  

• A new lookback option in the existing Items check has been added. It allows you to define how far in the past the plugin will look for failed VM/Vault backup allowing you to get rid of very old failed backups for which an alarm became irrelevant

• A new Replication mode is added to add broader support for recovery points. You can monitor your site/vaults' replication and failover health. 

">New Monitoring Packs - Community powered 

Thanks to an open-source contributor, two news packs have been added, and we love it! They will enable you to watch over your Azure objects allocation and financial spending carefully.

• Azure Active Directory: leveraging the Microsoft Graph API and helping you track the evolution and quota usage of objects configured on your Cloud Azure Directory. An explanation of how important it is can be found here. 

• Azure Management Costs: connect to the consumption APIs provided by Microsoft to track down the financial spending for a given subscription or resource group. Very helpful to control and optimize your cloud costs over time! Use the embedded service discovery rule to add services without effort easily! 

All these enhancements and new capabilities are our this September. Make sure to check it out!