Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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Please refer to the Microsoft Azure Sources topic for additional information on how to configure the LPU, and general Azure Data Collection setup details.

Least Privileged User

Steps:

Using the Azure CLI Client, find the Subscription ID and Tenant ID from your account list
Create a custom RBAC role using the JSON provided. Include your Subscription ID and rename the file to azure.json
Create an Active Directory Service Principal and assign the custom RBAC role t it.

Creating custom roles using the Azure CLI:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/custom-roles

Assigning roles using the Azure CLI:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/role-assignments-portal

{
  "Name": "LPU Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets",
  "Description": "LPU for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets",
  "Actions": [
    "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/*/read",
    "Microsoft.Insights/metrics/*/read",
    "Microsoft.Authorization/*/read"
  ],
  "AssignableScopes": [
    "/subscriptions/[Subscription ID]"
  ]
}

Connection Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
Subscription ID	Required	GUID Subscription ID
Tenant ID	Required	GUID Tenant ID (also known as Directory ID)
Client ID	Required	GUID Client ID (also known as Application ID)
Client Secret	Required	The Secret (also known as Key) corresponding to the Client ID.
Maximum HTTP Retry Time (seconds)		The maximum amount of time in seconds to retry each API request when the API is throttling.
HTTP Request Timeout (seconds)		The maximum amount of time in seconds before a single HTTP request will fail.

Metrics

API Usage

Name	Description
Average Pages	The average amount of pages needed for a paged resource type.
Average Request Retries	The average number of retry requests per unique requests made.
Average Retry Attempts	The average number of retry requests made per unique request that was retried.
Average Retry Wait (Milliseconds)	The average amount of time retried requests spent waiting.
Client ID	The client ID used to make API calls.
Failed Requests	The total number of requests that returned a failure response.
Maximum Pages	The most amount of pages needed for a paged resource type.
Maximum Retries	The highest number of retries made for a single request.
Maximum Retry Wait (Milliseconds)	The most amount of time a retried request spent waiting.
Minimum Pages	The least amount of pages needed for a paged resource type.
Minimum Retry Wait (Milliseconds)	The least amount of time a retried request spent waiting.
Other Status Responses	The total number of successful requests that responded with some other accepted status.
Request Timeouts	The total number of requests that timed out waiting for a response.
Requests Retried	The number of unique requests that were retried.
Retry Status Responses	The total number of successful requests that responded with the status TOO MANY REQUESTS (429).
Retry Timeouts	The total number of requests that needed to be retried, but the request retry time exceeded the maximum retry time.
Status OK Responses	The total number of successful requests that responded with the status OK (200).
Subscription ID	The subscription ID used to make API calls.
Successful Requests	The total number of requests that returned a successful response.
Tenant ID	The tenant ID used to make API calls.
Total Monitor Requests	The total number of requests made to get monitor metrics.
Total Paged Requests	The total amount of resource types that required paging.
Total Requests	The total number of requests made during collection.
Total Retries	The total number of retry requests that were made.
Unique Monitor Requests	The number of unique requests made to get monitor metrics.
Unique Requests	The number of requests made with unique endpoints.

Virtual Machine

Name	Description
CPU Credits Consumed	Total number of credits consumed by the Virtual Machine.
CPU Credits Remaining	Total number of credits available to burst.
CPU Utilization (%)	The ratio of compute units that are currently in use by the Virtual Machine(s) to allocated compute units.
Disk Read (Bytes)	Total amount of data read from disk during monitoring period.
Disk Read Rate (Operations per Second)	The disk read operations rate.
Disk Write (Bytes)	Total amount of data written to disk during monitoring period.
Disk Write Rate (Operations per Second)	The disk write operations rate.
ID	The Azure Resource ID.
Instance ID	The virtual machine instance ID.
Latest Model Applied	Specifies whether the latest model has been applied to the virtual machine.
Location	The resource location.
Name	The resource name.
Network In (Bytes)	The amount of data received on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine(s) (Incoming Traffic).
Network Out (Bytes)	The amount of data out on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine(s) (Outgoing Traffic).
OS Per Disk Queue Depth	OS Disk Queue Depth (or Queue Length).
OS Per Disk Read Rate (Operations per Second)	Total read operation rate done while reading from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
OS Per Disk Read Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total read throughput from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
OS Per Disk Write Rate (Operations per Second)	Total write operation rate done while writing to a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
OS Per Disk Write Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total write throughput to a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
OS Profile Admin Username	Specifies the name of the administrator account.
OS Profile Computer Name	Specifies the host OS name of the virtual machine.
Per Disk Queue Depth	Data Disk Queue Depth (or Queue Length).
Per Disk Read Rate (Operations per Second)	Total read operations rate done while reading from a single disk during monitoring period.
Per Disk Read Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total read throughput from a single disk during monitoring period.
Per Disk Write Rate (Operations per Second)	Total write operations rate done while writing to a single disk during monitoring period.
Per Disk Write Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total write throughput to a single disk during monitoring period.
Provisioning State	The provisioning state, which only appears in the response.
SKU Name	The SKU name.
SKU Tier	Specifies the tier of virtual machines in a scale set. Possible values are: Standard, Basic.
VM ID	The Azure VM unique ID.

Virtual Machine Scale Set

Name	Description
CPU Credits Consumed	Total number of credits consumed by the Virtual Machine.
CPU Credits Remaining	Total number of credits available to burst.
CPU Utilization (%)	The ratio of compute units that are currently in use by the Virtual Machine(s) to allocated compute units.
Disk Read (Bytes)	Total data read from disk during monitoring period.
Disk Read Rate (Operations per Second)	Disk read operation rate.
Disk Write (Bytes)	Total data written to disk during monitoring period.
Disk Write Rate (Operations per Second)	Disk write operation rate.
ID	The Azure Resource ID.
Location	Specifies the supported Azure location where the cluster should be created.
Name	Specifies the name of the virtual machine scale set.
Network In (Bytes)	The amount of data received on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine(s) (Incoming Traffic).
Network Out (Bytes)	The amount of data out on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machine(s) (Outgoing Traffic).
OS Per Disk Queue Depth	OS Disk Queue Depth (or Queue Length).
OS Per Disk Read Rate (Operations per Second)	Total read operation rate done while reading from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
OS Per Disk Read Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total read throughput from a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
OS Per Disk Write Rate (Operations per Second)	Total write operation rate done while writing to a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
OS Per Disk Write Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total write throughput to a single disk during monitoring period for OS disk.
Over Provisioned	Specifies whether the scale set is over-provisioned.
Per Disk Queue Depth	Data Disk Queue Depth (or Queue Length).
Per Disk Read Rate (Operations per Second)	Total read operation rate done while reading from a single disk during monitoring period.
Per Disk Read Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total read throughput from a single disk during monitoring period.
Per Disk Write Rate (Operations per Second)	Total write operation rate done while writing to a single disk during monitoring period.
Per Disk Write Throughput (Bytes per Second)	Total write throughput to a single disk during monitoring period.
Provisioning State	The provisioning state.
Resource Group	The Resource Group of the Azure resource.
Single Placement Group	When true this limits the scale set to a single placement group, of max size 100 virtual machines.
SKU Capacity	Specifies the number of virtual machines in the scale set.
SKU Name	The SKU Name.
SKU Tier	Specifies the tier of virtual machines in a scale set. Possible values are: Standard, Basic.
Unique ID	Specifies the unique id for this virtual machine scale set.
Upgrade Policy Mode	Specifies the mode of an upgrade to virtual machines in the scale set. Possible values are: Manual (You control the application of updates to virtual machines in the scale set. You do this by using the manualUpgrade action), Automatic (All virtual machines in the scale set are automatically updated at the same time).

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Least Privileged User

Steps:

Creating custom roles using the Azure CLI:

Assigning roles using the Azure CLI:

Connection Parameters

Metrics

API Usage

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine Scale Set

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This source has been deprecated