Azure Bastion monitoring integration

Azure Bastion is a fully platform-managed service that lets you establish secure RDP and SSH connectivity through SSL.

With Site24x7's integration, you can now monitor your Bastion with reliable metrics, define thresholds, and get alerts when there is a breach.

Table of contents

• Setup and configuration
• Polling frequency
• Supported metrics
• Threshold configuration
• IT Automation
• Configuration Rules
• Summary
• Configuration Details
• Reports

Setup and configuration

• Adding Azure Bastion while configuring a new Azure monitor

  If you haven't configured an Azure monitor yet, add one by following the steps below:

  1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
  2. Go to Cloud > Azure > Add Azure Monitor. You can also follow these steps to add an Azure monitor.
  3. During Azure monitor configuration, on the Edit Azure Monitor page, select Azure Bastion from the Service/Resource Types drop-down.
• Adding Azure Bastion to an existing Azure monitor

  If you already have an Azure monitor configured for the tenant, you can add Azure Bastion by following the steps below:

  1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
  2. Go to Cloud > Azure, select your Azure monitor, then go to any of the dashboards on the left pane of your Azure monitor.
  3. Click the hamburger icon and select Edit, which brings you to the Edit Azure Monitor page.
  4. On the Edit Azure Monitor page, select the corresponding Subscriptions and Resource Groups from the drop-down, select Azure Bastion from the Service/Resource Types drop-down, and click Save.
  5. After successful configuration, go to Cloud > Azure > Azure Monitor > Azure Bastion. Now you can view the discovered Azure Bastion.

It will take 15-30 minutes to discover new Azure resources. For immediate discovery of the selected configuration, go to the Infrastructure Dashboard of the Azure monitor, hover over the hamburger icon, and select Discover Now.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Azure Bastion monitor collects metric data every five minutes and displays the minute-by-minute status of your Bastion.

Supported metrics

Threshold configuration

• Global configuration
  1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to the Admin section on the left navigation pane.
  2. Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and select Threshold and Availability (+) from the drop-down.
  3. Click Add Threshold Profile on the top-right corner of the page.
  4. In the Monitor Type drop-down select Azure Bastion.
  5. Now you can set the threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.
• Monitor-level configuration
  1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to Cloud > Azure > Azure Monitor > Azure Bastion.
  2. Select the resource you would like to set a threshold for, then click the hamburger icon.
  3. Select Edit, which directs you to the Edit Azure Bastion page.
  4. You can set the threshold values for the metrics by selecting Threshold and Availability.
  5. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7's IT Automation tools help automatically resolve performance degradation issues. The alarm engine continually evaluates system events for which thresholds are set and executes the mapped automation when there is a breach.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

Configuration Rules

Configure parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors with Site24x7's Configuration Rules. You can run a scan and associate any of the previously generated rules that suit the monitor configurations while adding new monitors.

How to add a Configuration Rule

Summary

The Summary tab will give you the performance data organized by time for the metrics listed above.

1. To view the summary, go to Cloud > Azure > Azure Monitor > Azure Bastion.
2. Select a resource and click the Summary tab.
3. By doing so, you can view the above metrics.

Configuration Details

The configuration details of an application instance are provided under the Configuration Details tab.

1. To get the configuration details, go to Cloud > Azure > Azure Monitor > Azure Bastion.
2. Click a resource and select the Configuration Details tab.

Reports

Gain in-depth data about the various parameters of your monitored resources and highlight your service performance using our insightful reports.

To view reports for Azure Bastion:

1. Go to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
2. Select Azure Bastion from the menu on the left.
3. You can find the Availability Summary Report, Performance Report, and Inventory Report for one selected monitor, or you can get the Summary Report, Availability Summary Report, Health Trend Report, and Performance Report for all the Azure Bastion.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Azure Bastion monitor.

1. Click the Summary tab of the Azure Bastion monitor and get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking Availability or Downtime.
2. You can also find the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking any chart title.

Related links

• How to add an Azure monitor
• How to configure IT Automation for a monitor
• How to integrate an Azure App Service monitor
• How to integrate an Azure virtual machine
• How to add a Configuration Rule
• View the list of monitor reports