I want to implement heartbeat to check availability on premise server that has installed azure arc on it. I need steps for that?

Question

I installed azure arc agent on the server and I can see the basic metrics on azure portal CPU, Memory, RAM...
But I want constantly monitor the connection with that server, like sending ping every 30 seconds and I found out about the heartbeat but I not sure how to implement it. I found this answer to the question like mine and follow the steps until number 6(because I can't find step numer6.) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1337843/i-want-to-check-vm-availaible-by-heartbeat-can-you

Answer 1

Miloš Petrović, thank you for posting this question here.

Based on the information available in the question, the "Agents" tab under "Insights" of Log Analytics workspace would meet your requirement. This contains the agents reporting data to Log Analytics Workspace, the Heartbeat trend (which is a small packet sent by the agent on VM every minute to the Log Analytics worksapce) and Agent catagory. The screenshot below shows this information:

You can also query the "Heartbeat" table in the "Log" section to get further insights as required. Some of the sample queries are available here - Sample log searches for Heartbeat

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

@AnuragSingh-MSFT thank you so much for the fast answer I found the heartbeat and I was wondering if you can help me with one more thing also regarding this heartbeat topic. I would like to make a dashboard were I can constantly monitor availability of the server to put up on my tv in the office, is something like that possible? I already made some type of custom dashboards for monitoring purposes, so I have experience with making dashboards