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Log Analytics VM Insights Metrics
This VM Updates dashboard built with the WebAPI tile for the CE and SCOM editions. Since there is a native connection to the Log Analytics workspace in the Azure edition, here it is created using the native Logs tile. This dashboard surfaces key metric data for Virtual Machines, regardless of where the servers are hosted.
Challenge
In today’s hybrid cloud journey that more and more organizations are traversing, centralized data collection and management has become crucial. With an ever-growing adoption of Azure, monitoring and system administrators prefer sending all the important data to Azure’s workspace for easy access and management.
With this sea of data flowing into Azure workspaces, it becomes unavoidable to be able to visualize the useful data and share the right insights to relevant teams, regardless of whether they have access to Azure or not.
Solution
SquaredUp addresses this problem by giving you the power to dashboard this sea of data, from anywhere. By leveraging Azure’s publicly available APIs, you can easily connect to the workspaces in Azure and run Kusto (KQL) queries against it to return the data you want.
This is even easier in SquaredUp Azure edition since there is native connection between SquaredUp and the workspace so you can simply choose the workspace from a dropdown and paste in your query, without having to configure a WebAPI provider.
This sample dashboard demonstrates how easy it is to make this happen to visualize data even outside of the Azure console and share it across.
Dashboard walk-through
The dashboard makes a connection to the Log Analytics workspace through a WebAPI provider and runs KQL to fetch data.
- Updates by Computer.
This donut tile displays the number of servers that are missing updates, grouped by servers.
2. Updates by Classification.
This donut tile displays the number of missing updates, by classification.
3. Critical Security Issues.
This donut tile shows all servers with critical security issues.
4. Disk Space from Logs.
This line graph plots the Disk Space values captured for all servers.
5. CPU Performance from Logs.
This line graph plots the CPU utilization values captured for all servers.
6. Memory utilization from Logs.
This line graph plots the memory utilization values captured for all servers.
How do I import and configure this dashboard
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Ensure you’re using Dashboard Server v5.3 or above.
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Create an Azure Log Analytics provider to connect to your Azure instance. Use the following settings:
Name LogAnalytics
Note: The name is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly like given here for the tiles to recognise the provider automatically. If you name it differently, you will need to select the provider manually for each tile on the dashboard.
For help creating an Azure Log Analytics provider see How to add an Azure Log Analytics provider
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Download and import this dashboard pack.
How to import a dashboard pack-
Download the dashboard pack zip file for the dashboard pack you wish to import.
There may be additional steps before or after the import to get the dashboard working in your environment.
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In SCOM Edition go to the top right hand menu ☰ > Import Dashboard Packs and drag the zip file into the Manual Import box.
The dashboard pack is imported and if the pack contains top-level dashboards, these will automatically appear in the navigation bar, usually in a folder called ‘Community Dashboards’ for dashboard packs from the SquaredUp Community.
If the dashboard pack also contains perspectives (see Working with perspectives), then you’ll see these when you drilldown to the relevant object. Carry out any additional steps required to make the dashboard work in your environment. These steps will be described on the download page for each dashboard. For example, you may need to create the correctly named Web API provider, create a PowerShell profile, or edit tile scopes.
Edit the imported dashboard as required.
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