Azure Batch monitoring

The Azure Batch overview page gives you a comprehensive view of how many jobs and tasks were completed over a period of time. You can also track nodes in different states, such as running, idle, or offline.

Prerequisites

Dynatrace version 1.196+
Environment ActiveGate version 1.195+

Enable monitoring

To enable monitoring for this service, you first need to set up integration with Azure Monitor.

Add the service to monitoring

In order to view the service metrics, you must add the service to monitoring in your Dynatrace environment.

To add a service to monitoring

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
On the Azure overview page, select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
Go to Services and select Add service, choose the desired service name from the list, and select Add service.
Select Save changes to save your configuration.

Monitor resources based on tags

You can choose to monitor resources based on existing Azure tags, as Dynatrace automatically imports them from service instances.
To monitor resources based on tags

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings and select Cloud and virtualization > Azure.
On the Azure overview page, select the Edit icon for the Azure instance.
Set Resources to be monitored to Monitor resources selected by tags.
Enter key/value pairs to identify resources to exclude from monitoring or include in monitoring. You can enter multiple key/value pairs: each time you enter a pair, another empty row is displayed for you to edit as needed.
Select Save to save your configuration.

To import the Azure tags automatically into Dynatrace, turn on Capture Azure tags automatically.

Configure service metrics

Once you add a service, Dynatrace starts automatically collecting a suite of metrics for this particular service. These are recommended metrics.

Recommended metrics:

Are enabled by default
Can't be disabled
Can have recommended dimensions (enabled by default, can't be disabled)
Can have optional dimensions (disabled by default, can be enabled).

Apart from the recommended metrics, most services have the possibility of enabling optional metrics.

Optional metrics:

Can be added and configured manually

To add and configure metrics

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization and select Azure.
On the Azure overview page, scroll down and select Edit for the desired Azure instance.
Go to Services and select Manage services.
To add a metric, select the service for which you want to add metrics.
Select Add new metric.
From the menu, select the metric you want.
Select Add metric to add the metric to monitoring.
To configure a metric, select Edit.
Select Apply to save your configuration.

View service metrics

You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the custom device overview page or on your Dashboards page.

View metrics on the custom device overview page

To access the custom device overview page

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Technologies.
Filter by service name and select the relevant custom device group.
Once you select the custom device group, you're on the custom device group overview page.
The custom device group overview page lists all instances (custom devices) belonging to the group. Select an instance to view the custom device overview page.

View metrics on your dashboard

Once you add a service to monitoring, a preset dashboard for the respective service containing all recommended metrics is automatically created on your Dashboards page. You can look for specific dashboards by filtering by Preset and then by Name.

For existing monitored services, you might need to resave your credentials for the preset dashboard to appear on the Dashboards page. To resave your credentials, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > Azure, select the desired Azure instance, then select Save.

You can't make changes on a preset dashboard directly, but you can clone and edit it. To clone a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Clone.
To remove a dashboard from the dashboards list, you can hide it. To hide a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Hide.

Hiding a dashboard doesn't affect other users.

Available metrics

Name	Description	Dimensions	Unit
CoreCount	Total number of dedicated cores in the batch account	None	Count
CreatingNodeCount	Number of nodes being created	None	Count
IdleNodeCount	Number of idle nodes	None	Count
JobDeleteCompleteEvent	Total number of jobs that have been successfully deleted	jobId	Count
JobDeleteStartEvent	Total number of jobs that have been requested to be deleted	jobId	Count
JobDisableCompleteEvent	Total number of jobs that have been successfully disabled	jobId	Count
JobDisableStartEvent	Total number of jobs that have been requested to be disabled	jobId	Count
JobStartEvent	Total number of jobs that have been successfully started	jobId	Count
JobTerminateCompleteEvent	Total number of jobs that have been successfully terminated	jobId	Count
JobTerminateStartEvent	Total number of jobs that have been requested to be terminated	jobId	Count
LeavingPoolNodeCount	Number of nodes leaving the pool	None	Count
LowPriorityCoreCount	Total number of low-priority cores in the batch account	None	Count
LowPriorityNodeCount	Total number of low-priority nodes in the batch account	None	Count
OfflineNodeCount	Number of offline nodes	None	Count
PoolCreateEvent	Total number of pools that have been created	poolId	Count
PoolDeleteCompleteEvent	Total number of pool deletes that have completed	poolId	Count
PoolDeleteStartEvent	Total number of pool deletes that have started	poolId	Count
PoolResizeCompleteEvent	Total number of pool resizes that have completed	poolId	Count
PoolResizeStartEvent	Total number of pool resizes that have started	poolId	Count
PreemptedNodeCount	Number of preempted nodes	None	Count
RebootingNodeCount	Number of rebooting nodes	None	Count
ReimagingNodeCount	Number of reimaging nodes	None	Count
RunningNodeCount	Number of running nodes	None	Count
StartTaskFailedNodeCount	Number of nodes where the Start Task has failed	None	Count
StartingNodeCount	Number of nodes starting	None	Count
TaskCompleteEvent	Total number of tasks that have completed	poolId,jobId	Count
TaskFailEvent	Total number of tasks that have completed in a failed state	poolId,jobId	Count
TaskStartEvent	Total number of tasks that have started	poolId,jobId	Count
TotalNodeCount	Total number of dedicated nodes in the batch account	None	Count
UnusableNodeCount	Number of unusable nodes	None	Count
WaitingForStartTaskNodeCount	Number of nodes waiting for the Start Task to complete	None	Count