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Manage Monitoring of Web Sites in Azure

Take control of your Azure Web Sites with Nodinite. Manage monitoring, perform remote actions, and empower your teams—all without direct Azure Portal access.

With this guide, you will:

✅ Receive instant alerts for issues with Azure Web Sites through Alarm Plugins
✅ Empower teams with secure, delegated management and self-service
✅ Gain valuable run-time statistics for Azure Functions
✅ Reduce risk by limiting Azure Portal access and attack vectors
✅ Enable support and maintenance teams to resolve issues quickly with Start and Stop Remote Actions

Nodinite uses an App Registration to connect and authenticate with the Azure REST API. You can read more about this concept in the Azure Application Access user guide, and the Prerequisites list the rights the App Registration needs.

Start with Monitoring Web Site to understand the monitored Web App and Function App scope and the state evaluation rules before using the remote actions below.

You can empower your business and end-users to manage and gain insights into selected Web Sites in Azure. Nodinite Monitoring gives support and maintenance teams the data they need for root cause analysis—without requiring individual direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. By reducing access, you minimize attack vectors and lower the risk of disrupting mission-critical services.

graph LR subgraph NOD["Nodinite Azure Web Site Monitoring"] roA["fa:fa-monitor-waveform Azure Monitoring Agent"] --- roMonitor("fa:fa-watch-fitness Monitoring") end subgraph AZ["Azure"] roMonitor --- roWS("fa:fa-globe Web Site") roWS --- roWSWA("Web App") roWS --- roWSFA("Function App") roWSFA ---|"Statistics"| roFX("fa:fa-function Functions") end style roA fill:#2678BD,color:#fff style roMonitor fill:#2678BD,color:#fff style roWS fill:#3F827B,color:#fff style roWSWA fill:#3F827B,color:#fff style roWSFA fill:#3F827B,color:#fff style roFX fill:#E47528,color:#fff

Diagram: The Azure Monitoring Agent (blue) monitors Web Sites, both Web Apps and Function Apps (teal), and collects statistics for the Functions (orange) inside each Function App.

Application Management Team	IT Operations	Business
Empower your AM team to be proactive without disturbing IT operations	Stay in control with full access	Give your business information and self-service for Azure-based solutions

Management Features

For Resources in Role-based Monitor Views with Remote Actions privileges, your Users can use these Remote Actions grouped by Category:

Category	Monitoring	Actions	Metrics/Statistics
Web App	✅ Yes	Details Start Stop	-
Function App	✅ Yes	Details Start Stop	Functions

Info
The Nodinite Audit Log records every Remote Action that you and other Users perform, including every Start and Stop.

As an Administrator with access to the Configuration for Monitoring Agents, you can also:

Monitoring	Remote Configuration
Monitoring Web Site	Manage monitoring thresholds

Web Site

Use Remote Actions to manage and gain insights into your monitored Web Sites.

The following categories exist:

Web Site - Web App
Web Site - Function App

The 'Web Site - Web App' and 'Web Site - Function App' Categories provide one Resource for each Web Site to monitor, using the Azure name as the Resource name. For the Functions inside a Function App, see Managing Function.

Example from a Monitor View with a list of 'Azure Web Sites'.

See Monitoring Web Site for more details about Web Site Monitoring.

The Web Site category provides Resources that display the evaluated monitored state according to built-in rules.

If you have permission to perform Remote Actions, you can use these operations for both Categories:

The Details, Start, and Stop Remote Actions available for a Web Site Resource.

Details

To view the selected Web Site Resource and manage the set of monitored Resource Groups, click the Action button and then select the Details menu item in the 'Control Center' section.

Use the 'Details' action menu item to open the details modal for the selected Web Site.

Web App Details

Select the option to open the modal for a Web App.

Example of the details Nodinite shows for a Web App.

Function App Details

Select the option to open the modal for a Function App.

Example of the details Nodinite shows for a Function App, including its Functions.

Tip
Use Azure Functions Statistics to gain insights into the performance of your Functions. You can also identify Functions that are no longer in use.