I need to create azure sla dashboard for my AZure resources like azure sla chart . Can any one guide me, give idea how I can create dashboard in azure for my resources sla.

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I need to create azure sla dashboard for my AZure resources like azure sla chart . Can any one guide me, give idea how I can create dashboard in azure for my resources sla.

Answer 1

Hi Nidhi,

Creating a dashboard in Azure for your resource SLAs can be achieved using Azure Monitor and Azure Dashboards. Azure Monitor collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.

Here is a step-by-step guide to creating a dashboard for your resources:

Log into Azure Portal: Sign into the Azure portal using your Azure account credentials.

Navigate to Azure Dashboards: Click on the hamburger menu icon (☰) in the top left corner, then select "Dashboard".

Create a new Dashboard: Click on "+ New dashboard". Fill in the necessary details such as name and description, and choose the appropriate layout. Click "Done customizing" to save.

Add Tiles: Each type of monitoring data (metrics, logs, etc.) has its own tile in the dashboard. Select the "Edit" option, then click on "+ Add tile".

Select Type of Monitoring Data: For instance, to monitor metrics, click on the "Metric chart" tile.

Configure Data: A sidebar will open where you can configure the data source and the data to be displayed. To create an SLA dashboard, you'd typically monitor resource metrics such as "CPU Percentage", "Memory Percentage", "Disk Operations/Sec", "Network In", "Network Out", etc. Set your resource, metric namespace, metric, aggregation type, and time range as required.

Done: Click Apply to create the tile.

Pin to Dashboard: Once you have configured the chart, click on "Pin to dashboard". You can repeat the steps above to add more tiles as required for your SLA dashboard.

Be aware, Azure does not inherently measure SLAs. However, you can define your own custom log searches and queries for specific conditions to monitor in the context of your SLAs. Also, consider using Azure Service Health to monitor the health of your Azure resources.

Azure Service Health provides a personalized view of the health of the Azure services, regions, and the Azure Management services you are using. In the event of a service issue or planned maintenance, Service Health provides detailed and timely information about the impact on your resources.

Please make sure you have the necessary permissions to create and edit dashboards.

I hope his helps with your query?

Answer 2

Hello Kumari, Nidhi (Cognizant)

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform, thanks for posting your query here.

For your ask on how to create an Azure SLA (Service Level Agreement) dashboard for your Azure resources. You can do this using Azure Monitor to collect and visualize SLA data.

First for the Azure resources you want to monitor, enable diagnostics and monitoring. Once you do this, resources logs and metrics are sent to Azure Monitor.

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/diagnostic-settings?tabs=portal

Next, create an Azure Log Analytics workspace where you'll store and analyze the data collected from your resources.

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/quick-create-workspace?tabs=azure-portal

Now that you have the data collected from Azure resources, configure SLA alerts are needed. Use Azure Monitor to create alert rules based on SLA criteria

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-create-new-alert-rule?tabs=metric

You can now create Azure Dashboards. You will need to add relevant tiles to the dashboard to display SAL metric.

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards

Once you've designed your dashboard with the necessary tiles, save it and you can share the dashboard with your team or colleagues by clicking on "Share" and providing them the appropriate permissions.

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboard-share-access

Hope this helps.