Azure Storage Account Classic (Blob, File, Queue, Table) monitoring
Dynatrace ingests metrics for multiple preselected namespaces, including Azure Storage Account Classic. You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.
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.
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
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In the Dynatrace menu, go to Settings and select Cloud and virtualization > Azure.
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On the Azure overview page, select the Edit
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Set Resources to be monitored to Monitor resources selected by tags.
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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.
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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
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
This service monitors a part of Storage Account Classic (Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts). You can find the already monitored resources on the Azure overview page in the Cloud services section or use a dashboard preset. To monitor resources of the Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts (including Storage, StorageV2 and BlobStorage) type, check Storage Accounts and the Storage accounts section on the Azure overview page.
Storage Account (Classic)
| Name | Description | Unit | Dimensions | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | The percentage of availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. Availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. | Percent | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName |  |
| Egress | The amount of egress data, in bytes. This number includes egress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable egress. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| Ingress | The amount of ingress data, in bytes. This number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessE2ELatency | The end-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation, in milliseconds. This value includes the required processing time within Azure Storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessServerLatency | The latency used by Azure Storage to process a successful request, in milliseconds. This value does not include the network latency specified in SuccessE2ELatency. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| 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 which produced errors. Use ResponseType dimension for the number of different type of response. | Count | Authentication, GeoType, ResponseType, ApiName | |
| UsedCapacity | Account used capacity. | Byte | |
Azure Storage Blob Services (Classic)
This service monitors a part of Storage Account Classic (Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts). You can find the already monitored resources on the Azure overview page in the Cloud services section or use a dashboard preset. To monitor resources of the Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts type (including Storage, StorageV2 and BlobStorage), check Storage Accounts and the Storage accounts section on the Azure overview page.
| Name | Description | Unit | Dimensions | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | The percentage of availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. Availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. | Percent | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| BlobCapacity | The amount of storage used by the storage account’s Blob service in bytes. | Byte | BlobType | |
| BlobCount | The number of Blob in the storage account’s Blob service. | Count | BlobType | |
| ContainerCount | The number of containers in the storage account’s Blob service. | Count | | |
| Egress | The amount of egress data, in bytes. This number includes egress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable egress. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| IndexCapacity | The amount of storage used by ADLS Gen2 (Hierarchical) Index in bytes. | Byte | ||
| Ingress | The amount of ingress data, in bytes. This number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessE2ELatency | The end-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation, in milliseconds. This value includes the required processing time within Azure Storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessServerLatency | The latency used by Azure Storage to process a successful request, in milliseconds. This value does not include the network latency specified in SuccessE2ELatency. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| 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 which produced errors. Use ResponseType dimension for the number of different type of response. | Count | Authentication, GeoType, ResponseType, ApiName | |
Azure Storage File Services (Classic)
This service monitors a part of Storage Account Classic (Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts). You can find the already monitored resources in Azure overview page in Cloud services section or use a dashboard preset. To monitor resources of the Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts type (including Storage, StorageV2 and BlobStorage), check Storage Accounts and the Storage accounts section on the Azure overview page.
| Name | Description | Unit | Dimensions | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | The percentage of availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. Availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. | Percent | Authentication, FileShare, GeoType, ApiName | |
| Egress | The amount of egress data, in bytes. This number includes egress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable egress. | Byte | Authentication, FileShare, GeoType, ApiName | |
| FileCapacity | The amount of storage used by the storage account’s File service in bytes. | Byte | FileShare | |
| FileCount | The number of file in the storage account’s File service. | Count | FileShare | |
| FileShareCount | The number of file shares in the storage account’s File service. | Count | | |
| FileShareQuota | The upper limit on the amount of storage that can be used by Azure Files Service in bytes. | Byte | FileShare | |
| FileShareSnapshotCount | The number of snapshots present on the share in storage account’s Files Service. | Count | FileShare | |
| FileShareSnapshotSize | The amount of storage used by the snapshots in storage account’s File service in bytes. | Byte | FileShare | |
| Ingress | The amount of ingress data, in bytes. This number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure. | Byte | Authentication, FileShare, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessE2ELatency | The end-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation, in milliseconds. This value includes the required processing time within Azure Storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response. | MilliSecond | Authentication, FileShare, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessServerLatency | The latency used by Azure Storage to process a successful request, in milliseconds. This value does not include the network latency specified in SuccessE2ELatency. | MilliSecond | Authentication, FileShare, GeoType, ApiName | |
| 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 which produced errors. Use ResponseType dimension for the number of different type of response. | Count | Authentication, FileShare, GeoType, ResponseType, ApiName | |
Azure Storage Queue Services (Classic)
This service monitors a part of Storage Account Classic (Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts). You can find the already monitored resources in Azure overview page in Cloud services section or use a dashboard preset. To monitor resources of type Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts (including Storage, StorageV2 and BlobStorage), check Storage Accounts and Azure overview section Storage accounts.
| Name | Description | Unit | Dimensions | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | The percentage of availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. Availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. | Percent | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| Egress | The amount of egress data, in bytes. This number includes egress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable egress. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| Ingress | The amount of ingress data, in bytes. This number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| QueueCapacity | The amount of storage used by the storage account’s Queue service in bytes. | Byte | | |
| QueueCount | The number of queue in the storage account’s Queue service. | Count | | |
| QueueMessageCount | The approximate number of queue messages in the storage account’s Queue service. | Count | | |
| SuccessE2ELatency | The end-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation, in milliseconds. This value includes the required processing time within Azure Storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessServerLatency | The latency used by Azure Storage to process a successful request, in milliseconds. This value does not include the network latency specified in SuccessE2ELatency. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| 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 which produced errors. | Count | Authentication, GeoType, ResponseType, ApiName | |
Azure Storage Table Services (Classic)
This service monitors a part of Storage Account Classic (Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts). You can find the already monitored resources in Azure overview page in Cloud services section or use a dashboard preset. To monitor resources of the Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts type (including Storage, StorageV2 and BlobStorage), check Storage Accounts and the Storage accounts section on the Azure overview page.
| Name | Description | Unit | Dimensions | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | The percentage of availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. Availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. | Percent | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| Egress | The amount of egress data, in bytes. This number includes egress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable egress. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| Ingress | The amount of ingress data, in bytes. This number includes ingress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as ingress within Azure. | Byte | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessE2ELatency | The end-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation, in milliseconds. This value includes the required processing time within Azure Storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| SuccessServerLatency | The latency used by Azure Storage to process a successful request, in milliseconds. This value does not include the network latency specified in SuccessE2ELatency. | MilliSecond | Authentication, GeoType, ApiName | |
| TableCapacity | The amount of storage used by the storage account’s Table service in bytes. | Byte | | |
| TableCount | The number of table in the storage account’s Table service. | Count | | |
| TableEntityCount | The number of table entities in the storage account’s Table service. | Count | | |
| 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 which produced errors. Use ResponseType dimension for the number of different type of response. | Count | Authentication, GeoType, ResponseType, ApiName | |