Monitor uptime/downtime of individual S2S (IPsec) tunnel on a Virtual network gateway

Question

Hi all,

I have a Virtual network gateway with two S2S (IPsec) connections. I'm trying to monitor the status of these connections/tunnels individually on availability but I can't figure out how. My goal is to monitor the status of these connections/tunnels if they're connected (up) or not connected (down).

I've tried to find a metric I could query to see if the connection/tunnel is up/down but without luck... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/monitor-vpn-gateway-reference

Is there a way to monitor the connections individually for uptime/downtime in Azure monitoring or should I search for another solution?

Answer 1

Hi @Anonymous

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Azure Automation enables you to implement and run a task in a programmatic fashion through runbooks. Using Azure Automation creates a perfect recipe for performing continuous and proactive network monitoring and alerting.

Check this link on how to create a runbook with a script to check for the connection status of the VPN tunnel

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitor-with-azure-automation

Hope this helps

Cheers

Luca