Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL monitoring integration

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is a non-relational service that natively stores JSON documents with flexible schema.

With Site24x7's integration, you can monitor your database with accurate metrics, configure thresholds, and get instant alerts if there is a breach.

Setup and configuration

Adding an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL while configuring a new Azure monitor

If you haven't configured an Azure Monitor yet, add one by following the steps below:

Log in to your Site24x7 account.
Choose Cloud from the left navigation pane, and select Azure > Add Azure Monitor. You can also follow these steps to add an Azure Monitor.
During Azure monitor configuration, in the Add Azure Monitor page, select Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL along with other required resource types from the Service/Resource Types drop-down. Check if you have configured the corresponding Resource groups and Tag filters in the Edit page.

Adding an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL to an existing Azure monitor

If you already have an Azure monitor configured for the tenant, you can add the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL using the following steps:

Log in to your Site24x7 account.
Navigate to Cloud > Azure > select the Azure monitor from the left pane for which you wish to add an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL.
In the Service View page, click the Enable Monitoring button in the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Service type. Check if you have configured the corresponding Resource groups and Tag filters in the Edit page.

Note

It will take 15-30 minutes to discover new Azure resources. To immediately discover the selected configuration, click Discover Now in the top-right corner, by doing which all the resources that match the filters configured in Azure Edit page will be discovered even if the Auto-Discover New Resources option is disabled.

Now, you can view the discovered databases from the Service View dashboard itself.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL monitor collects metric data every minute and the statuses from your applications every five minutes.

Supported metrics

Usage

Metric	Description	Statistic	Unit
Service Availability	The percentage of availability requests made by the account at one hour, day, or month granularity.	Average	Percent
Metadata Requests	The number of metadata requests. Cosmos DB maintains a system metadata collection for each account, which allows users to enumerate collections, databases, etc., and their configurations, free of charge.	Count	Count
Data Usage	The total data usage reported at five minutes granularity.	Average	Bytes
Index Usage	The total index usage reported at five minutes granularity.	Average	Bytes
Document Count	The total document count reported at five minutes, one hour, and one day granularity.	Average	Count
Document Quota	The total storage quota reported at five minutes granularity.	Average	Bytes
Account Created	The number of accounts created.	Count	Count
Account Deleted	The number of accounts deleted.	Count	Count
Total Requests	The total number of requests made.	Count	Count
Total Request Units	The number of SQL request units consumed.	Average	Count
Normalized RU Consumption	The percentage of maximum RU consumed per minute.	Average	Percent
Autoscaled RU	The number of autoscaled RU consumed per region and per partition autoscale.	Maximum	Count
Account Keys Updated	The number of updated account keys.	Count	Count
Account Network Settings Updated	The number of updated account network settings.	Count	Count
Autoscale Max Throughput	The number of throughputs that autoscale in the particular database.	Maximum	Count
Provisioned Throughput	The number of provisioned throughputs.	Maximum	Count
Account Replication Settings Updated	The number of updated account replication settings.	Count	Count
Account Diagnostic Settings Updated	The number of updated account diagnostic settings.	Count	Count
Materialized View Catchup Gap In Minutes	Maximum time difference in minutes between data in the source container and data propagated to the materialized view.	Maximum	Count
Materialized Views Builder Average CPU Usage	Average CPU usage across materialized view builder instances, which are used for populating data in materialized views.	Average	Percent
Materialized Views Builder Average Memory Usage	Average memory usage across materialized view builder instances, which are used for populating data in materialized views.	Average	Bytes
Materialized Views Builder Maximum CPU Usage	Average maximum CPU usage across materialized view builder instances, which are used for populating data in materialized views.	Average	Percent

Resilience

Metric	Description	Statistic	Unit
Server Side Latency	The amount of latency recorded on the server side.	Average	Milliseconds
Server Side Latency Direct	The amount of latency recorded in the server side on direct connection mode.	Average	Milliseconds
Server Side Latency Gateway	The amount of latency recorded on the server side in gateway connection mode.	Average	Milliseconds
Physical Partition Count	The number of physical partitions.	Maximum	Count
Physical Partition Size	The size of physical partition.	Average	Bytes
Physical Partition Throughput	The number of physical partition throughputs.	Maximum	Count
Region Added	The number of regions added.	Count	Count
Region Removed	The number of regions removed.	Count	Count
Region Offlined	The number of regions made offline.	Count	Count
Region Onlined	The number of regions made online.	Count	Count
Region Failed Over	The number of regions that failed over.	Count	Count
P99 Replication Latency	The amount of P99 replication latency across source and target regions for geo-enabled account.	Average	Milliseconds

Dedicated Gateway

Metric	Description	Statistic	Unit
Dedicated Gateway Average CPU Usage	The average amount of CPU usage across dedicated gateway instances.	Average	Percent
Dedicated Gateway Average Memory Usage	The average memory usage across dedicated gateway instances, which is used for both routing requests and caching data.	Average	Bytes
Dedicated Gateway CPU Usage	The amount of CPU usage across dedicated gateway instances.	Average	Percent
Dedicated Gateway Maximum CPU Usage	The average maximum CPU usage across dedicated gateway instances.	Average	Percent
Dedicated Gateway Memory Usage	The average memory usage across dedicated gateway instances.	Average	Bytes
Dedicated Gateway Requests	The number of requests at the dedicated gateway.	Count	Count
Integrated Cache Evicted Entries Size	The average size of the entries evicted from the integrated cache.	Average	Bytes
Integrated Cache Item Expiration Count	The number of items evicted from the integrated cache due to time to live (TTL) expiration.	Average	Count
Integrated Cache Item Hit Rate	The percentage of the number of point reads that used the integrated cache divided by number of point reads routed through the dedicated gateway with eventual consistency.	Average	Percent
Integrated Cache Query Expiration Count	The number of queries evicted from the integrated cache due to TTL expiration.	Average	Count
Integrated Cache Query Hit Rate	The percentage of the number of queries that used the integrated cache divided by number of queries routed through the dedicated gateway with eventual consistency.	Average	Percent

Threshold configuration

Associating a threshold profile can be done from the monitor Edit page:

Under Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability > select the corresponding threshold profile from the drop-down.

Note

The changes done for this threshold profile will be applied to all the associated monitors. You can either add or edit the threshold profile by clicking the + or

pencil icon respectively.

Bulk Action:

Bulk association of threshold profiles can be done from Admin page (Admin > Inventory > Bulk Action > Under Monitor Configuration, go to Modify Threshold Profile).

You can set the threshold values for the metrics by selecting the Threshold and Availability option. You can also configure IT automation at the attribute level.

Default thresholds

Site24x7 alerts you based on a set of default thresholds. These default thresholds ensure that your database capacity is not overutilized, thus maintaining optimal storage and performance. This also helps in reducing costs. The default thresholds are provided for the below metrics:

Public Network Access Changed
Default Consistency Policy Changed
Service Availability
Normalized RU Consumption
Account Keys Updated
Region Removed
SQL Container Created
SQL Container Updated
SQL Container Deleted
SQL Database Created
SQL Database Updated
SQL Database Deleted

IT automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT automation tools to auto-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. These rules can be configured and run for the existing or new monitors (during addition) matching the given criteria.

How to add a configuration rule.

Reports

Gain in-depth data about the various parameters of your monitored resources and accentuate your service performance using our insightful reports.

To view reports for an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL:

Navigate to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
Select Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL from the menu on the left.

You can find the Availability Summary Report, and Performance Report for one selected monitor, or you can get the Inventory Report, Summary Report, Availability Summary Report, Health Trend Report, and Performance Report for all the monitors.

Schedule reports

You can also schedule the Inventory Report by navigating to Reports > Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL > Inventory Report and clicking the Share This button at the top-right corner. In the Schedule Report pop-up, choose the monitor, assign the desired frequency—daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly—and receive the regular reports of your inventory details to the groups that you desire.

Site24x7 Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL monitoring also provides CosmosDB for NoSQL by Default Consistency Level reports that will enable you to gain deeper insight into your resources.

Top N and Bottom N reports

Service Availability
Normalized RU Consumption
Data Usage
Index Usage
Document Count
Total Requests
Provisioned Throughput

CosmosDB for NoSQL Top N Bottom N Report

You can also view the reports from the Usage tab of the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Monitor.

Go to the Usage tab of the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Monitor, and get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking on Availability.
You can also find the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking on any chart title.

Site24x7's Cosmos DB for NoSQL monitoring interface

Get an overview of the availability and usage status of your Cosmos DB for NoSQL.

Usage:

The Usage tab will help you view the data and index usage of your resource as well as the availability status of your service and database. You can view metrics like Metadata Requests, Normalized RU Consumption, Provisioned Throughput, and many more.

Resilience:

With the Resilience tab, you can view the latency details, partition information, and the status of the regions.

SQL

The SQL tab will provide the details of your SQL database and containers, along with the throughput information.

Dedicated Gateway

The Dedicated Gateway tab contains dedicated gateway request information, integrated cache details, along with the CPU, and memory usage information.

Configuration Details

The Configuration Details tab provides the configuration details of your Cosmos DB for NoSQL. Details on the SQL EndPoint, Public Network Access, Default Consistency Level, Backup Policy Type, Automatic Failover, and more are included in this section.

Zia Forecast:

By leveraging the AI-driven Zia framework, you can examine resource consumption measurements through the forecast chart located in the Zia Forecast tab. This chart predicts upcoming performance metrics based on a 7-day historical data analysis, providing insights into the expected metric usage for the next seven days.

Outages:

The Outages tab provides the history of the Cosmos DB for NoSQL statuses, including Down, Trouble, and Critical.

Inventory:

The Inventory tab provides the licensing details, the Threshold and Availability Profiles, the Notification Profiles set, the set User Alert Group, and the monitor created time and modified time.

Log Report:

The Log Report tab lists all the logs collected during every data collection, along with their statuses.