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Monitoring Key Vaults in Azure

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This page provides documentation about the Key Vault Monitoring options using Nodinite from one or more role-based Monitor Views. Nodinite monitors the age of Keys and Secrets in one or more Key Vaults. You can manage the monitoring thresholds for the Key Vault; Remote commands are available as Actions to help you swiftly address reported problems. The Remote Actions are detailed on the Managing Key Vault page.
Key Vaults as Resources
Example list of monitored Key Vaults in a Nodinite Monitor View.

Monitoring Features

  • State Evaluation - Provide state evaluation according to pre-defined policy.

    If Nodinite can't check your Key Vault items' state, chances are no one else can use them either.

  • Automatic Discovery of Key Vaults.
  • Category-based monitoring - The monitored Resources groups by the Nodinite concept of Categories.
  • Share access to individual items from within Nodinite using one or more role-based Monitor Views.

State evaluation for Key Vaults

The Key Vaults to monitor manifests within Nodinite as one or more Resources. For example, if you have three Key Vaults, you will have three Resources in Nodinite.

  • The Nodinite Resources name is the same as the deployed Key Vault name.
  • Monitored Key Vaults belong to 'Key Vault' Category:

Many other Azure related Categories exists as well, please review the Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview

  • The Application name is created with the following pattern: Configuration name/Resource Group Name

Each item (presented in Nodinite as a Resource) evaluates with a state (i.e. OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable).

You can override the evaluation process by configuring the Expected State option available for all Nodinite Resources.

Key Vault

For Key Vault Resources, the state evaluates as described in the table below:

State Status Description Actions
Unavailable Resource not available
  • Evaluation of the 'Key Vault' is not possible either due to network or security-related problems
Review prerequisites
Error Error threshold is breached One or more Secrets or Keys is about to expire, or is expired Edit
Warning Warning threshold is breached One or more Secrets or Keys is about to expire, or is expired Edit
OK Within user-defined thresholds Details

Alert history for Key Vault

During root cause analysis or other purposes, it might be helpful to understand how often your Key Vault problems happen. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for the provided time-span either for all your Key Vault or individually. This topic is further detailed within the generic instructions on how to Add or manage Monitor View page.

Search Resource history

Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View

Alert history for the selected Key Vault item

Frequently asked questions

Use the troubleshooting guide to find the FAQ and answers to known problems.


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