Configuring Azure Compute monitoring

The Azure Compute agent provides you with a central point of monitoring for the health, availability, and performance of your Azure Compute instances. The agent displays a comprehensive set of metrics to help you make informed decisions about your Azure Compute environment. These metrics include CPU usage, network usage, and disk performance.

Before you begin

Read the entire Configuring Azure Compute monitoring topic to determine what is needed to complete the configuration.
The directions here are for the most current release of the agent, except as indicated. For more information about how to check the version of an agent in your environment, see Agent version command.
Make sure that the system requirements for the Azure Compute agent are met in your environment. For the up-to-date system requirement information, see the Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) for the Azure Compute agent.
Ensure that the following information is available:
- The Azure Subscription Credentials with permission to access the Azure Compute instances to monitor. See Azure Compute Configuration Information for more details.

About this task

The Azure Compute agent is both a multiple instance agent and also a subnode agent. Each Azure Compute agent subnode monitors a grouping of Azure Compute virtual machines according to a filter you define. You can create one agent instance with multiple subnodes – one for each virtual machine grouping, or you can create an agent instance for each virtual machine grouping with one subnode for that grouping. Or you can create a combination of each type of configuration. After you configure agent instances, you must start each agent instance manually. It is suggested that you have no more than 50 resources per Azure Compute virtual machine grouping. Each Azure Compute agent subnode name must be unique within your environment.

Procedure

Configure the agent on Windows systems with the IBM Performance Management window or the silent response file.
- Configuring the agent on Windows systems.
- Configuring the agent by using the silent response file.
Configure the agent on Linux® systems with the script that prompts for responses or the silent response file.
- Configuring the agent by responding to prompts.
- Configuring the agent by using the silent response file.

What to do next

In the Cloud APM console, go to your Application Performance Dashboard to view the data that was collected. For more information about using the Cloud APM console, see Starting the Cloud APM console.

If you are unable to view the data in the agent dashboards, first check the server connection logs and then the data provider logs. The default paths to these logs are listed here:

/opt/ibm/apm/agent/logs
C:\IBM\APM\TMAITM6_x64\logs

For help with troubleshooting, see the Cloud Application Performance Management Forum.