Centralized monitoring for Microsoft Sustainability Manager

Microsoft Sustainability Manager comprises components that run in three clouds (Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform). The solution also relies on internal and external accessible emission data sources for calculations. Customers might also have customizations or ISV solutions in place.

With all these components in the architecture, it's important to track how customers use your system and monitor the health and performance of your system. Use the following checklist as a diagnostic aid to detect, correct, and prevent issues.

It's important to centralize monitoring to help you maximize the performance and availability of your resources and proactively identify problems. The following reference operational monitoring architecture is tailored for Sustainability Manager's needs. It uses a seamlessly integrated centralized monitoring capability that uses the following apps:

• Power Platform admin center
• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Microsoft Purview
• Microsoft Sentinel

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To centralize logging and monitoring, you can send logs generated by Azure resources for identity, connectivity, and preprocessing, plus logs generated by other cloud resources, with on-premises data gateways to an Azure Log Analytics workspace. Use Azure Monitor to centralize these aggregated logs, monitor, visualize through Power BI and workbooks, and respond via alerts or defined action groups and rules. You can export aggregated logs to other storage options for later analysis via Azure Data Explorer.

The following table presents how each solution component in the diagram generates its operational and audit logs, how to monitor them, and how to define an alert mechanism.

Number	Solution component	Monitoring	Logging	Auditing	Alerts
1	Authentication to Sustainability Manager	Microsoft Entra ID sign-in logs or activity logs sent to Azure Monitor	Sign-in, provisioning, and audit logs in Microsoft Entra ID	Changes to applications, groups, users, and licenses in Microsoft Entra audit logs	Custom Azure Monitor alerts SIEM: Microsoft Sentinel Cybersecurity: Microsoft Defender
2	Sustainability Manager model-driven app	Dataverse analytics	Telemetry events for model-driven apps	Audit: Audit summary view, Model-driven apps activity logging: Microsoft Purview	Custom Azure Monitor alerts
3	Sustainability Manager Power BI embedded dashboards	Microsoft managed	Microsoft managed	Microsoft managed	Microsoft managed
4	Dataverse	Dataverse analytics, Telemetry events for Dataverse	Request: Incoming API calls Dependency: Outgoing calls	Dataverse auditing	Custom Azure Monitor alerts, System administrator alerts, Microsoft 365 Message center notifications
5	Sustainability Manager data error handling	Error handling for data import in Sustainability Manager	Connection refresh table (msdyn_dataconnectionrefresh)	Power Platform connector activity logs (preview) in Purview	You can develop a custom Power Automate to send a notification when Connection refresh table record fails
6	Sustainability Manager plugins (such as emissions calculation)	Dataverse Analytics	Plugin Tracelog, dependency, and exceptions table in Application Insights	Dataverse auditing	Custom Azure Monitor alerts
7	Sustainability Manager workflows	System jobs	System Job Table (AsyncOperation)	Dataverse auditing	A custom Power Automate to monitor system jobs failed records
8	Sustainability Manager Teams collaboration	Microsoft managed	Microsoft managed	Microsoft Purview	Microsoft 365 Message center notifications
9	Azure Synapse Link	Azure Synapse Link	Microsoft managed	Microsoft managed	Microsoft managed
10	On-premises data gateway	Gateway service health: On-premises data gateway management Gateway node monitoring: Azure Monitor and Log Analytics Gateway node performance: Windows Performance Monitor or Gateway performance PBI template	Collect VM logs Slow-performing queries	Log Analytics agent	Custom Azure Monitor alert
11	Azure connectivity and preprocessing resources	Azure Monitor	Log Analytics workspace	Azure resource diagnostics log	Custom Azure Monitor alert

Next steps

• Monitoring considerations for Microsoft Sustainability Manager
• Monitoring checklist for Microsoft Sustainability Manager
• Monitoring best practices for Microsoft Sustainability Manager
• Design considerations for Microsoft Sustainability Manager