Monitoring Resource Groups in Azure
Manage the set of Azure services to Monitor using the Nodinite Resource Groups resource.
This page provides documentation about Resource Group Monitoring options using Nodinite from one or more role-based Monitor Views. Nodinite monitors Resource Group configuration. You can manage the set of Resource Groups to monitor for configured Resource Groups; Remote commands are available as Actions to help you swiftly address reported problems. The Remote Actions are detailed on the Managing Resource Group page.
Example list of monitored Resource Groups in a Nodinite Monitor View
Monitoring Features
- State Evaluation - Provide state evaluation according to a pre-defined policy.
If Nodinite can't check your Resource Group items' state, chances are no one else can use them either.
- Selected resource groups for configured Subscriptions can be monitored
- The Nodinite Azure Agent makes use of the Azure Rest API. Hence, Resource Groups presents automatically.
- Category-based monitoring - The monitored Resources groups by the Nodinite concept of Categories.
- Share access to individual items from within Nodinite using one or more role-based Monitor Views.
State evaluation for Azure Resource Group
The Resource Groups to monitor manifests within Nodinite as one or more Resources. For example, if you have three Resource Groups, you will have three Resources in Nodinite.
- The Nodinite Resources name is the same as Resource Group from within the Azure portal.
- Monitored Resource Groups belong to the 'Resource Group' Category:
Many other Azure related Categories exists as well. Review the Azure Monitoring Overview user guide.
- The Application name is created with the following pattern:
Display Namefrom the Configuration
Each item (presented in Nodinite as a Resource) evaluates with a state (i.e. OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable).
You can override the evaluation process by configuring the Expected State option available for all Nodinite Resources.
Azure Resource Group
For the Azure Resource Group Resources, the state evaluates as described in the table below:
| State | Status | Description | Actions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unavailable | Resource not available |
|
Review prerequisites | |
| Error | Error threshold is breached | N/A | ||
| Warning | Warning threshold is breached | N/A | ||
| OK | Within user-defined thresholds | Details |
Alert history for Resource Group
During root cause analysis or other purposes, it might be useful to understand how often your Resource Group problems happen. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for the provided time-span either for all your Resource Group or individually. This topic is further detailed within the generic instructions on how to Add or manage Monitor View page.
| Search | Resource history |
|---|---|
 Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View |
 Alert history for the selected Resource Group item |
Frequently asked questions
Use the troubleshooting guide to find the FAQ and answers to known problems.