Azure Monitoring Agent + VM Insights

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to deploy the Azure Monitoring Agent (to Win2019/2022) through Azure Policy and configure it with VMInsights. I know a lot of the Azure Policy built-in initiative/definitions are in preview but I'm getting very mixed results. I have the best results when I assign this initiative:

[Preview]: Enable Azure Monitor for VMs with Azure Monitoring Agent(AMA)

But the dependency agent does not install to 2022 and I also am not seeing any data appear when I go to performance.

I'm ultimately just trying to set policies in place so if anyone builds a VM, we know that the right agents will get installed.

Answer 1

Hi there,

This is an expected behavior for 2022, because this particular definition

[Preview]: Deploy Dependency agent to be enabled on Windows virtual machines with Azure Monitoring Agent settings

is configured to install the dependency agent to the following OSes:
"field": "Microsoft.Compute/imageSKU",
"in": [
"2008-R2-SP1",
"2008-R2-SP1-smalldisk",
"2012-Datacenter",
"2012-Datacenter-smalldisk",
"2012-R2-Datacenter",
"2012-R2-Datacenter-smalldisk",
"2016-Datacenter",
"2016-Datacenter-smalldisk",
"2016-Datacenter-with-Containers",
"2016-Datacenter-with-RDSH",
"2016-datacenter-gensecond",
"2019-Datacenter",
"2019-Datacenter-smalldisk",
"2019-Datacenter-with-Containers",
"2019-Datacenter-with-Containers-smalldisk",
"2019-Datacenter-zhcn",
"2019-datacenter-gensecond"
]

Customize the definition - add your 2022 SKU, and use it as a custom.