Azure APIM : Monitor Alert for APIM Location and Not for APIM Instance

Question

Hi,

I am not able to find a way to setup alert when my APIM location goes down.
We have multi regional deployment in which 1 unit is in eastus and 1 unit in west europe.

The metrics available for alert that can help are capacity (by location) and count/status ( which shows running for apim instance as a whole)

So there is no way to find out if a particular location instance is down.

Whats the work around for this. It is a very basic feature.

Answer 1

Hi @Amit-J Thanks for reaching out. I had a discussion internally and confirmed that we do not send any alerts on APIM failing over to other regions. But you can use a custom script to keep probing the regional end points (https://<service-name>-<region>-01.regional.azure-api.net) as shown below
https://<service-name>-<region>-01.regional.azure-api.net/status-0123456789abcdef, and create an alert if the probe fails
or you can set up an Azure Traffic Manager in front of the APIM with the endpoints to the regional APIM end points and create alerts for the endpoint getting degraded.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-howto-deploy-multi-region#-use-custom-routing-to-api-management-regional-gateways

Feel free to leave your feedback at APIM feedback page aka.ms/apimwish. Do let me know if you have any queries.

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