Azure Load Balancer
Overview
Azure Load Balancer is a high-availability, fully-managed load balancing service provided by Microsoft Azure. It distributes incoming network traffic across multiple virtual machines (VMs) or instances within a virtual network, ensuring optimal resource utilization, improved application performance, and fault tolerance.
Prerequisites
You can check the list of prerequisites required for Azure Load Balancer here. These are the same for any other Azure service that you need to monitor using AIOps. Move to the section Adding Azure resources for Monitoring on the above link to view the prerequisites for Azure resource monitoring.
List of Supported KPIs
| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| system.tags | Tags associated with the Azure Load Balancer | String |
| azure.status | Status of the Azure Load Balancer | String |
| azure.sku.name | SKU name of the Azure Load Balancer | String |
| azure.location | Location of the Azure Load Balancer | String |
| azure.etag | Etag of the Azure Load Balancer | String |
| azure.type | Type of the Azure Load Balancer | String |
| azure.name | Name of the Azure Load Balancer | String |
| azure.loadbalancer.availability | Average availability of the Azure Load Balancer | Count |
| azure.loadbalancer.snat.ports | Average allocated SNAT ports of the Azure Load Balancer | Count |
| azure.loadbalancer.bytes.rate | Total byte count of the Azure Load Balancer | Bytes |
| azure.loadbalancer.dip.availability | Average availability of the DIPs in Azure Load Balancer | Count |
| azure.loadbalancer.packets.rate | Total packet count of the Azure Load Balancer | Count |
| azure.loadbalancer.snat.connections | Total count of SNAT connections in Azure Load Balancer | Count |
| azure.loadbalancer.syn.packets | Total count of SYN packets in Azure Load Balancer | Count |
| azure.loadbalancer.used.snat.ports | Average used SNAT ports of the Azure Load Balancer | Count |
| event.timestamp | Timestamp of the event | Count |