Monitor Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files provides metrics on allocated storage, actual storage usage, volume IOPS, and latency. By analyzing these metrics, you can gain a better understanding of the usage pattern and volume performance of your NetApp accounts.
Access metrics
Watch this video to understand how you can access access the metrics to monitor Azure NetApp Files system.
Metrics for Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files supports different from usage, performance, and throughput.
Usage metrics for capacity pools
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Pool Allocated Size | The provisioned size of the pool |
| Pool Allocated to Volume Size | The total of volume quota (GiB) in a given capacity pool (that is, the total of the volumes' provisioned sizes in the capacity pool). This size is the size you selected during volume creation. |
| Pool Consumed Size | The total logical space (GiB) used across volumes in a capacity pool. |
| Total Snapshot Size for the Pool | The sum of snapshot size from all volumes in the pool. |
Usage metrics for volumes
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Percentage Volume Consumed Size | The percentage of the volume consumed, including snapshots. Aggregation metrics (for example, min, max) aren't supported for percentage volume consumed size. |
| Volume Allocated Size | The provisioned size of a volume. |
| Volume Quota Size | The quota size (GiB) the volume is provisioned with. |
| Volume Consumed Size | Logical size of the volume (used bytes). This size includes logical space used by active file systems and snapshots. |
| Volume Snapshot Size | The size of all snapshots in a volume. |
| Throughput limit reached. | Throughput limit reached is a boolean metric that denotes the volume is hitting its QoS limits. The value 1 means that the volume has reached its maximum throughput, and throughput for this volume will be throttled. The value 0 means this limit hasn't yet been reached. |
Note
The Throughput limit reached metrics is collected every 5 minutes and is displayed as a hit if it has been collected in the last 5 minutes.
Performance metrics for volumes
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Average Read Latency | The average time for reads from the volume in milliseconds. |
| Average Write Latency | The average time for writes from the volume in milliseconds. |
| Read IOPS | The number of reads to the volume per second. |
| Write IOPS | The number of writes to the volume per second. |
Volume replication metrics
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Is volume replication status healthy | The average time for reads from the volume in milliseconds. |
| Is volume replication transferring | The average time for writes from the volume in milliseconds. |
| Volume replication lag time | The number of reads to the volume per second. |
| Volume replication last transfer duration | The number of writes to the volume per second. |
| Volume replication last transfer size | The total number of bytes transferred as part of the last transfer |
| Volume replication progress | The total amount of data transferred for the current transfer operation. |
| Volume replication total transfer | The cumulative bytes transferred for the relationship. |
Throughput metrics for capacity pools
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Pool allocated throughput | Sum of the throughput of all the volumes belonging to the pool. |
| Provisioned throughput for the pool | Provisioned throughput of this pool. |
Throughput metrics for volumes
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Read throughput | Read throughput in bytes per second. |
| Total throughput | Sum of all throughput in bytes per second. |
| Write throughput | Write throughput in bytes per second. |
| Other throughput | Other throughput (that isn't read or write) in bytes per second. |
Azure Policy definitions for Azure NetApp Files
Azure Policy helps to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at-scale. Through its compliance dashboard, it provides an aggregated view to evaluate the overall state of the environment, with the ability to drill down to the per-resource, per-policy granularity. It also helps to bring your resources to compliance through bulk remediation for existing resources and automatic remediation for new resources.
Custom policy definitions
Azure NetApp Files supports Azure Policy. You can integrate Azure NetApp Files with Azure Policy through creating custom policy definitions.
Built-in policy definitions
The Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files enable organization admins to restrict creation of unsecure volumes or audit existing volumes. Each policy definition in Azure Policy has a single effect. That effect determines what happens when the policy rule is evaluated to match.
The following effects of Azure Policy can be used with Azure NetApp Files:
- Deny creation of non-compliant volumes
- Audit existing volumes for compliance.
- Disable a policy definition.
Storage service add-ons for Azure NetApp Files
The Storage service add-ons portal menu of Azure NetApp Files provides a launching pad for available third-party, ecosystem add-ons to the Azure NetApp Files storage service.
Access storage service add-ons
Selecting a category (for example, NetApp add-ons) under Storage service add-ons displays tiles for available add-ons in that category. Selecting an add-on tile in the category takes you to a landing page for quick access of that add-on and directs you to the add-on installation page.
