Azure Queue Storage Monitoring Integration

Azure Queue Storage is a service that allows you to store massive amounts of data. Access messages from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS.

You can now monitor your queue storage, get precise metrics, set thresholds, automate tasks, and identify breaches with Site24x7's integration.

Setup and configuration

Adding Azure Queue Storage 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, then select Azure > Add Azure Monitor. You can also follow these steps to add an Azure monitor.
During Azure monitor configuration, on the Edit Azure Monitor page, select Azure Queue Storage from the Service/Resource Types drop-down.

Adding Azure Queue Storage to an existing Azure monitor

If you already have an Azure monitor configured for the tenant, you can add Azure Queue Storage by following these steps:

Log in to your Site24x7 account.
Navigate to the Infrastructure/Inventory/Management Dashboards from the left pane of the Azure monitor for which you wish to add Azure Queue Storage.
Click the hamburger icon and then Edit, which will bring you to the Edit Azure Monitor page.
On the Edit Azure Monitor page, select the corresponding Subscription and Resource Group from the drop-down menu, select Azure Queue Storage from the Service/Resource Types drop-down, and click Save.

After successful configuration, go to Cloud > Azure, and select Azure Queue Storage from the Azure monitor drop-down. Now you can view the discovered queues.

Note

It will take 15-30 minutes to discover new Azure resources. For immediate discovery of the selected configuration, go to the Infrastructure Dashboard of the Azure monitor and click on Discover Now from the icon.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Azure Queue Storage monitor collects metric data every minute and the statuses every five minutes.

Supported metrics

The following metrics are collected:

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Queue Capacity	The amount of queue storage used by the storage account	Average	Bytes
Queue Count	The number of queues in the storage account	Average	Count
Queue Message Count	The number of unexpired queue messages in the storage account	Average	Count
Availability	The availability of the storage service or the specified API operation	Average	Percentage (%)
Transactions	The number of requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation. This number includes successful and failed requests, as well as requests that produced errors	Average	Count
Egress	The amount of egress data. This number includes egress to an external client from Azure Storage as well as egress within Azure	Average	Bytes
Ingress	The amount of ingress data. This number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure	Average	Bytes
Success E2E Latency	The average end-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation	Average	Milliseconds
Success Server Latency	The average time used to process a successful request by Azure Storage	Average	Milliseconds

Threshold configuration

Global configuration

Go to the Admin section on 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 in the top-right corner.
Set the monitor type as Azure Queue Storage. Now you can set the threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.

Monitor-level configuration

Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure Queue Storage 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 Queue Storage Monitor page.

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

IT Automation

Site24x7's IT Automation helps in auto-resolving performance degradation issues. The alarm engine continually evaluates the system events for which thresholds are set and executes the mapped automation when there is a breach.

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. You can run a scan and associate any of the already generated rules that suit the monitor configurations while adding new monitors.

How to add a configuration rule.

Summary

The Summary tab will give you the performance data organized by time for the above-mentioned metrics.

To view the summary, go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure Queue Storage from the drop-down menu.
Click a resource and select the Summary tab.

By doing so, you can view the Queue Capacity, Queue Count, Queue Message Count, Ingress, Egress, and much more.

Reports

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

To view reports for Azure Queue Storage:

Navigate to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
Select Azure Queue Storage from the menu on the left.

You can find the Availability Summary Report and the 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 Azure Queue Storage monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Azure Queue Storage monitor.

Go to the Summary tab of the Azure Queue Storage monitor, and get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking Availability or Downtime.
You can also find the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking any chart title.