Cloud Monitoring
Sensors that monitor cloud services through each vendor own API - Azure, AWS, Google, Microsoft 365, Zoom and other SaaS platforms - covering availability, performance and spend.
In this chapter
- Azure API Management SensorAzure API Management sensor allows you to monitor the performance and behavior of the Azure API Management service. Azure API Management is a reliable, secure, and scalable way to publish, consume and manage APIs running on the Microsoft Azure platform.
- Azure Cosmos DB SensorThis sensor monitors Azure Cosmos Database Service using Azure Monitor metrics.
- Azure Cost SensorThe sensor monitors the estimated cost of resources in Azure subscription, and the progress of expenses within budgets defined in Azure subscription.
- Azure Insights ComponentsAzure Insights Components Sensor monitors Azure Insights Components resource, using Azure Monitor metrics. Application Insights is a feature of Azure Monitor and an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service. You can use it to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies and includes powerful analytics tools to help in diagnosing issues and understanding what users do with the app.
- Azure Load Balancer SensorThe sensor monitors Azure Load Balancer resource, using Azure Monitor metrics.
- Azure Logic Apps SensorAzure Logic Apps sensor allows you to monitor the performance and behavior of the Microsoft Cloud technology called Azure Logic Apps. Azure Logic Apps is a service in Microsoft Cloud that allows you to schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations.
- Azure Server Farm SensorAzure Server Farm Sensor monitors Azure Server Farm resources, using Azure Monitor metrics. The Microsoft Server Farm simplifies the provisioning, scaling, and management of multiple servers for administrators and hosting providers.
- Azure Service Bus SensorAzure Service Bus sensor allows monitoring the metrics of the cloud apps connected to the Service Bus namespace. Azure Service Bus is a messaging service on the cloud used to connect any applications, devices, and services running in the cloud to any other applications or services. As a result, it acts as a messaging backbone for applications available in the cloud or across any device.
- Azure Storage Account SensorAzure Storage Account Sensor monitors Azure Storage Accounts service, using Azure Monitor metrics. Microsoft Azure Storage Accounts service allows to create a group of data management rules and apply them all at once to the data stored in the account: blobs, files, tables, and queues.
- Azure Web Site SensorWith the Azure Web Site sensor, you can monitor the usage and performance of the web applications that are deployed to the cloud with Azure Web Apps. Azure Web Apps is a managed cloud service that allows the deployment of a web application and makes it available to customers on the Internet in a very short amount of time.
- Azure Kubernetes Cluster SensorThe sensor monitors Azure Kubernetes Services resource, using Azure Monitor metrics.
- AWS Alarm SensorThe Alarm Sensor monitors the status of Amazon alarms with CloudWatch API.
- AWS Auto Scaling SensorAWS Auto Scaling Sensor monitors the parameters of AWS Auto Scaling Group. AWS Auto Scaling automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance for your applications.
- Azure SQL DB SensorThis sensor allows you to monitor the performance and behavior of the databases managed in Azure SQL DB. Azure SQL DB is Microsoft’s cloud database service, that enables organizations to store relational data in the cloud and quickly scale the size of their databases up or down as business needs change.
- AWS Cost SensorThe sensor monitors the estimated cost of services in the AWS cloud and the progress of expenses within AWS Budgets.
- AWS EBS SensorThe sensor allows monitoring of key metrics of AWS Elastic Block Store.
- AWS EC2 SensorAWS EC2 Sensor allows monitoring usage of Amazon Cloud service Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance resources.
- AWS ElastiCache SensorAWS ELB Sensor allows monitoring of the performance of the AWS ElastiCache service.
- AWS ELB SensorAWS ELB Sensor allows monitoring metrics of AWS Elastic Load Balancers.
- AWS SQS SensorAWS SQS Sensor allows monitoring of key metrics of AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS). SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
- Cloud DrivesThis sensor allows monitoring of Microsoft OneDrive storage usage.
- Cloud Email Services (Gmail, Outlook, OAuth2)NetCrunch includes dedicated sensors for monitoring cloud-hosted email services such as Gmail and Outlook. These sensors offer the same diagnostic functionality as traditional email sensors but use OAuth 2.0 authentication instead of basic credentials. They support Gmail, Microsoft 365/Outlook.com, and custom OAuth providers.
- Zoom SensorsZoom sensors allow monitoring various aspects of Zoom services.
- Microsoft 365 Service StatusThis sensor allows you to monitor the health of Microsoft 365 services.
- Google Analytics SensorsGoogle Analytics sensors allow monitoring of various metrics provided by the Analytics Reporting API.
- Other cloud servicesThis sensor monitors the status of the selected Pingdom check and response time of a monitored webpage
- Cisco Meraki CloudThis monitoring solution provides visibility into Cisco Meraki cloud-managed wireless infrastructure, including device availability, wireless performance, network client statistics, connection health, and license status using the Meraki Dashboard REST API.