Monitoring services in a VM

Question

Hi Team,

I wanted to monitor the various services like databases running in a VM. I.e Whenever the service goes down ( but VM is running) an alert must be generated automatically.

Thanks,
Masthan

Answer 1

For something like this, you can capture the Windows event logs to a Log Analytics workspace and then query this service periodically for particular event IDs that you want to alert on.

You would have to write your own KQL query depending on your exact requirements. I would reference the articles below to get started:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/data-sources-windows-events

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/vm/monitor-virtual-machine-alerts

Answer 2

Change tracking in Azure Automation can track service state more directly. One common service tracking method is to base monitoring rules on the change tacking logs. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/change-tracking/manage-change-tracking