azmon

azmon

A tool for Azure Monitor at Microsoft Azure that possible to collect metrics and check it.

Usage

Azmon has two sub-commands named check and metric. When you invoke sub-commands, must be specified global options (see Global options).

azmon check can check metric data as Nagios plugin. You specify the target metric name in --metric-name option.
Also, azmon check provides options --*-over and --*-under, because whether we should check "over than threshold" or "under than threshold" is different by type of metric data.

$ azmon <global options> check --metric-name "Percentage CPU" --warning-over 70 --critical-over 90
CRITICAL - <resource name> Percentage CPU is 95.885000 that over than 90.000000

azmon metric can print metric data in the Sensu plugin format.
The --metric-names option can specify one or more metric data with comma separated. When you invoke without --metric-names option, target metric data is all of the metric data contained namespace.

$ azmon <global options> metric --metric-names "Percentage CPU,Network In,Network Out,Disk Read Bytes"
azure.Microsoft.ComputevirtualMachines.<resouce group>.<resource name>.PercentageCPU.Average     5.932500        1550223420
azure.Microsoft.ComputevirtualMachines.<resouce group>.<resource name>.NetworkIn.Average         37235.038462    1550223420
azure.Microsoft.ComputevirtualMachines.<resouce group>.<resource name>.NetworkOut.Average        5743.250000     1550223420
azure.Microsoft.ComputevirtualMachines.<resouce group>.<resource name>.DiskReadBytes.Average     0.000000        1550223420

Global options

• --subscriptionID
  • Set the subscription id
• --resource-group
  • Set the resource group name
• --namespace
  • Set the metric namespace
• --resource
  • Set the target resource name
• --aggregation
  • Set the aggregation type. Choose from "Total", "Average", "Maximum", "Minimum" ("Count" is not supported)"
• --auth-file
  • Set the azure auth file path (default "/etc/nagios/azure.auth")
  • See also Authentication

Subcommands

check

check sub-command fetches metric data and check it as Nagios plugin.

Options

• --metric-name
  • Set the name of the metric
• --warning-over
  • Set the warning threshold. Occur warning level alert when metric data over than threshold
• --warning-under
  • Set the warning threshold. Occur warning level alert when metric data under than threshold
• --critical-over
  • Set the critical threshold. Occur critical level alert when metric data over than threshold
• --critical-under
  • Set the critical threshold. Occur critical level alert when metric data under than threshold

metric

metric sub-command fetches metric data and print it in the Sensu plugin format.

Options

• --metric-names
  • Set the names of the metric
  • When omitting this option, print metric data contains in metric namespace specified by the global option
    • However except metrics that required dimension
• --prefix
  • Set the metric key prefix (default "azure")

Authentication

Azmon fetches metric data from Azure API, that required authentication with Azure API.

azure-sdk-for-go used in azmon provides several authentication methods.
Currently, azmon supports file-based authentication only.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/go/azure/azure-sdk-go-authorization#use-file-based-authentication

To generate an authentication file, you can run the following command.

az ad sp create-for-rbac --sdk-auth > azure.auth

In the default, azmon reads /etc/nagios/azure.auth as authentication file. You can change the authentication file path by --auth-file option.

License

Apache License 2.0