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Manage Monitoring of Web Sites in Azure

Manage monitoring and perform administrative remote actions on configured Azure Web Sites.

Get alerts if there is a problem with Azure Web Sites
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Nodinite make use of an App Registration to connect and authenticate with the Azure REST Api. Please read more about this concept in the Azure Application Access user guide.

For your business and other end-users; Delegate the power to manage, and gain insights to selected Web Sites in Azure. Nodinite Monitoring aids the support and maintenance team's people in having additional data for root cause analysis without having individual direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. Reducing access limits the number of attack vectors, and having fewer people with fewer access rights minimizes the risk of disruption of mission-critical services.

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Management Features

For Resources in the Role-based Monitor Views with the Remote Actions privilege grant; The following Remote Actions grouped by Category are available:

Category Monitoring Actions Metrics/Statistics
Web App Details
Start
Stop
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Function App Details
Start
Stop
Manage Api Key
Functions

As an Administrator with access to the Configuration for Monitoring Agents, the additional Monitoring options are available:

Monitoring Remote Configuration
Monitoring Web Site Manage Monitoring thresholds

    Web Site

    Use the Remote Actions to Manage and gain insights to the set of 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' Category provides one Resource for each Web Site to monitor with the name in Azure as the Resource name.
    Web Sites
    Example from a Monitor View with a list of 'Azure Web Sites'.

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

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

    If the permission to perform Remote Action is granted; The following operations exist:
    Category:

    Remote Actions

    Details

    To view the selected Web Site Resource and manage the set of monitored Resource Groups; Click the Action button and then click on the Details menu item within the 'Control Center' section.

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

    Web App Details

    Next, click the option to present the modal for a Web App.
    Web Site - Web App Details Modal

    Function App Details

    Next, click the option to present the modal for a Function App.
    Web Site - Function App Details Modal

    Tip

    Use the Azure Functions Statistics to gain insights to the performance of your Functions. Also, you can spot Functions no longer in use.

    Start

    You can start a stopped Web Site, simply click on the Action button and then click on the Start menu item within the 'Control Center' section.
    Start Web Site Action
    Start Web Site action.

    A prompt will then appear to verify your intent to Start the selected Web Site.
    Start Web Site Prompt
    Confirm intent to start selected Web Site.

    Next, the result from the operation is presented. This can be either success or failure.
    Continuous Web Site started successfully
    Here's an example of successful start result.

    Stop

    You can stop a started Web Site, simply click on the Action button and then click on the Stop menu item within the 'Control Center' section.
    Stop Web Site Action
    Stop Web Site action.

    A prompt will then appear to verify your intent to Stop the selected Web Site.
    Stop Web Site Prompt
    Confirm intent to start selected Web Site.

    Next, the result from the operation is presented. This can be either success or failure.
    Continuous Web Site stopped successfully
    Here's an example of successful stop result.

    Manage API Key

    This feature is shared with the Application Insights category and you can read more about this here.


    Next Step

    Monitoring Web Site
    Configuring the Nodinite Azure Monitoring agent

    Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
    Prerequisites for Azure Agent