How to configure a VMs monthly availability report

Question

I've tried to pull the logs based on heartbeat, but this is not usefull. sometimes, if the heartbeat is not into the logs, it seems like the VM was down, even when it was up and running.

Would somebody help me to get a reliable VM availability report?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

Azure VMs has VM availability metrics. You can go to the VM open the metrics view, slect the VM availability metric select a time range and you can see the availability of the VM for the selected period.

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Answer 2

Hi MONTANO ARREGUIN, SERGIO,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform.
Based on your question description we understand that you wanted to take the VMs monthly availability report.

In addition to @Stanislav Zhelyazkov, VM insights monitors the performance and health of your virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets, including their running processes and dependencies on other resources.

VM insights stores its data in Azure Monitor Logs, which allows it to deliver powerful aggregation and filtering and to analyze data trends over time. You can view this data in a single VM from the virtual machine directly, or you can use Azure Monitor to deliver an aggregated view of multiple VMs.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/vm/vminsights-overview

• One of the most common monitoring requirements for a virtual machine is to create an alert if it stops running. The best method for this is to create a metric alert rule in Azure Monitor

Please refer the below document for your reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/vm/tutorial-monitor-vm-alert-availability

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