Azure PaaS Monitoring
Optimize your Azure PaaS environment with complete Azure PaaS monitoring
With a high-quality Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) services monitoring tool like SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM), you can fully monitor your Azure-based applications and workloads and gain insight into your Azure PaaS services performance. Monitoring Azure PaaS services is the best way to ensure they’re working as expected.
With SAM as your comprehensive Azure PaaS monitoring tool, you can visualize performance metrics such as CPU, memory, requests, response time, and more for your dynamic workloads. Monitoring these services and metrics over time allows you to trend usage, detect abnormalities, and identify potential opportunities to improve performance for the following products:
- App Service
- Event Hubs
- SQL Database
Correlate Azure PaaS performance metrics to gain important insights
Investing in a powerful Azure PaaS monitoring tool like SolarWinds SAM can help you make sense of collected metrics and pinpoint the root cause of performance issues efficiently. SAM allows you to view and correlate your Azure PaaS monitoring metrics alongside your other systems, infrastructure, and application metrics.
Designed to improve visibility into your applications regardless of their location, SAM allows you to graph and chart metrics beside your on-prem systems and applications to quickly compare performance and availability. Thanks to SAM’s visualizations, you can gain important insights to identify and resolve Azure PaaS performance issues faster.
Get comprehensive Azure services monitoring for Azure IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS and your existing infrastructure
The Azure environment is large and complex. SAM allows for monitoring Azure services of various models, configurations, and purposes. If you implement SAM in your organization, you can benefit from comprehensive Azure PaaS environment monitoring alongside other server monitoring capabilities. Built to provide valuable insights into Azure PaaS, Azure IaaS, and Azure virtual machine and service performance, SAM provides:
- A single pane of glass view into systems, applications, and infrastructure performance regardless of where they reside. SAM is designed to eliminate the need to switch between multiple Azure monitoring solutions for different metrics, helping to reduce the time spent troubleshooting.
- The ability to visualize and correlate performance metrics across your environment.
- Auto-discovery, a feature that automatically includes Azure virtual machines and containers added to your infrastructure in your monitoring.
- Dynamic baselining and alerting to help define “what’s normal” in your Azure monitoring.
- Azure cloud VM management solutions.
Take advantage of complete Microsoft ecosphere monitoring
What is Azure PaaS?
Azure Platform as a Service, or Azure PaaS, is a Microsoft platform on which software can be quickly deployed and developed. The underlying infrastructure, operating system, and middleware is managed by Microsoft, while end users manage the data and associated applications.
A flexible and scalable cloud computing service, Azure PaaS supports the entire web application lifecycle, so you can easily build, test, deploy, manage, and update your web applications. It’s designed to be a secure platform trusted by organizations around the world.
Using a traditional IT infrastructure involves managing your data, applications, operating systems, storage, middleware, on-premises servers, networking, virtualization, and more. Using Azure Platform as a Service is intended to be simpler. With Azure PaaS, you’re only responsible for managing your applications and data, while Microsoft Azure manages everything else.
Since you aren’t purchasing new on-premises servers and your organization’s applications may have fewer administrative needs, you may be able to reduce overall operational costs and deploy your workforce more productively
As a cloud-based service, Azure Platform as a Service offers high levels of resiliency, scalability, flexibility, and automation. With Azure PaaS, you may be able to cut coding time, support geographically dispersed development teams, manage the application lifecycle, and increase your organization’s development capabilities without needing to hire new staff members.
What are Azure PaaS services?
Azure PaaS offers services designed to make deploying and developing software simple. Microsoft manages the middleware, servers, networking, storage, database management systems, development tools, business intelligence (BI) services, software licenses, container orchestrators, and more.
Azure PaaS provides a development framework with built-in software components and cloud features, including high availability, scalability, and multi-tenant capability. Certain services also provide users with scheduling services, security services, workflow services, and directory services.
Why is monitoring Azure PaaS important?
Azure PaaS services monitoring is a crucial step to getting the most out of the environment. Forgoing monitoring can result in excessive downtime, a loss of productivity, and lower performance.
Investing in specific types of Azure PaaS services monitoring, like Azure PaaS environment monitoring and Azure PaaS file integrity monitoring, can help organizations reliant on Azure PaaS services to function properly. With an effective Azure PaaS monitoring tool, you can more easily minimize downtime, as Azure PaaS environment monitoring can allow you to quickly identify and resolve issues—even before there are disruptions. Many Azure PaaS services monitoring tools can also generate easy-to-understand data-based graphs, records, and reports, giving you deeper insights into your environment.
A high-quality Azure PaaS file integrity monitoring tool can monitor your files to provide a baseline, allowing you to later identify any changes in operating systems and application software files.
How does Azure PaaS monitoring work in SAM?
Manual Azure PaaS services monitoring can be time-consuming, inaccurate, and at risk of human error when analyzing data in the standard Azure dashboard. If you’re looking for an effective and comprehensive Azure PaaS monitoring tool, consider SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor. SAM offers monitoring templates for more than 1,200 systems and applications, including the Azure ecosystem. With SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, there’s no need to install agents on your server or maintain remote software, and you can quickly discover your application’s environment and begin monitoring Azure PaaS services.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor uses real-time SNMP, UDP, TCP, WMI, and WinRM calls to gather information from your environment and application servers. With SAM, you can easily monitor your communications between your virtual machines and your applications.
SAM’s Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Scale template can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic, a percentage of CPU usage, and both disk write and disk read in bytes/sec and operations/sec, enabling you to quickly identify and resolve performance issues.
If you need to monitor Microsoft Azure IOT Hub performance, SAM has a template for that, too. You can easily monitor completed, abandoned, and rejected commands, ingress and egress telemetry, direct method invocations, twin reads from the back end, twin reads and twin updates from devices, twin queries, and dropped, invalid, or orphaned messages. This template has monitoring capabilities for job cancellations, completed jobs, and message delivery to and message latency for Event Hub endpoints, a built-in endpoint, Service Bus Queue endpoints, and Service Bus Topic endpoints.
Designed to provide valuable insights into data warehouse units (DWU) usage, the monitoring template for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse can allow you to monitor the maximum percentage of database warehouse units for your SQL database within a certain time frame (data warehouse units utilization). You can also view the DWU limit and the maximum database throughput units used per minute by your SQL database during the Polling Frequency with easy-to-use dashboards.
SAM has a template to help better monitor your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Account. With this template, you can monitor storage account total transactions, billable transactions, egress, ingress, availability, success server latency, and success E2E latency along with blob capacity, container count, blob count, and the number of files and file shares in your storage account’s File service. The Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Account monitoring template in SAM also enables you to monitor queue capacity and count, queue message count, and table capacity, so you can understand your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Account’s performance on a deeper level.
With SAM Microsoft Azure App Service, you can more easily monitor the total number of 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx, 401, 403, 404, and 406 requests in addition to the total number of requests served by the application, the average number of bytes received or sent, and the average response time and memory used.
SAM can also provide even deeper performance insights by combining SAM metrics with data from SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor, and SolarWinds Log Analyzer using the Orion® Platform. Accessible from any supported browser, the Orion Platform provides a single pane of glass for central visibility and a tightly integrated experience to help you more easily monitor and manage performance across your environment.
Offering comprehensive, real-time capabilities, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is designed to be a convenient tool for optimizing and monitoring Azure PaaS services. By eliminating the need to switch between several Azure monitoring tools, SAM lets you quickly visualize and correlate performance metrics and helps you cut back on time spent troubleshooting. As your IT infrastructure and Azure environment continue to grow, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is built to scale with you.
Related Features and Tools
Other SolarWinds Tools to Help Improve Azure Environment:- Virtualization Manager
- Database Performance Analyzer
- AppOptics™
- Access Rights Manager
- Security Event Manager
Other Features:
- What is Azure PaaS?
- What are Azure PaaS services?
- Why is monitoring Azure PaaS important?
- How does Azure PaaS monitoring work in SAM?
- Related Features and Tools
What is Azure PaaS?
Azure Platform as a Service, or Azure PaaS, is a Microsoft platform on which software can be quickly deployed and developed. The underlying infrastructure, operating system, and middleware is managed by Microsoft, while end users manage the data and associated applications.
A flexible and scalable cloud computing service, Azure PaaS supports the entire web application lifecycle, so you can easily build, test, deploy, manage, and update your web applications. It’s designed to be a secure platform trusted by organizations around the world.
Using a traditional IT infrastructure involves managing your data, applications, operating systems, storage, middleware, on-premises servers, networking, virtualization, and more. Using Azure Platform as a Service is intended to be simpler. With Azure PaaS, you’re only responsible for managing your applications and data, while Microsoft Azure manages everything else.
Since you aren’t purchasing new on-premises servers and your organization’s applications may have fewer administrative needs, you may be able to reduce overall operational costs and deploy your workforce more productively
As a cloud-based service, Azure Platform as a Service offers high levels of resiliency, scalability, flexibility, and automation. With Azure PaaS, you may be able to cut coding time, support geographically dispersed development teams, manage the application lifecycle, and increase your organization’s development capabilities without needing to hire new staff members.
Improve cloud application performance with Azure PaaS monitoring insights
Server & Application Monitor
- Track and trend key Azure PaaS services and metrics
- Correlate PaaS metrics to application performance
- Monitor your complete Microsoft ecosphere of products
Starts at $1,813
SAM, an Orion module, is built on the SolarWinds Platform
