1404, 2017

Root Cause Analysis with CloudMonix’s Historical Dashboard

By |April 14th, 2017|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

To discover what caused production issues or to understand why a particular alert was raised, you need to conduct a Root Cause Analysis (RCA). An effective RCA session allows you to fix problems quickly and ensure that systems operate smoothly. However, in today’s complex cloud environments you might have to investigate many connected components before […]

1004, 2017

Support for monitoring and automation of Azure VM Scale Sets and Service Fabric

By |April 10th, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, General, Microsoft Azure, New Features, News & Press|0 Comments

In April of 2016, Microsoft released Azure VM Scale Sets (VMSS).  Referred by many, as the successor to Azure Cloud Services, VMSS service provides management of multiple ubiquitous load-balanced Virtual Machines as a single logical unit.  This is especially useful for compute workloads, such as worker pools or web farms comprised of multiple servers doing […]

1003, 2017

Monitor Azure Storage with CloudMonix

By |March 10th, 2017|Azure How To, Cloud Monitoring, General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

In this post, we will see how you can monitor Azure Storage using CloudMonix.

We will cover the basics of Azure storage focusing on Blob storage and we will see how you can monitor the Blob storage using CloudMonix.

Azure Storage provides scalable, durable and highly available storage that allows to store from just few files required […]

301, 2017

CloudMonix vs native Azure Monitoring

By |January 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, General, Microsoft Azure, News & Press|0 Comments

CloudMonix monitors a wide range of data, offering a comprehensive overview of both Azure and standalone resources. Much of the information tracked by CloudMonix is not available in Azure Portal. A comprehensive list of differences by each resource is outlined later in this article.

In addition to monitoring, CloudMonix offers a number of unique automation features […]

3110, 2016

CloudMonix New Features: Auto-scaling of SQL Azure and SQL Data Warehouse

By |October 31st, 2016|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Platforms, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features, News & Press|0 Comments

Over the weekend of October 28th, CloudMonix team released a number of important features for monitoring and automating of SQL Azure and SQL Data Warehouse databases. In addition, a few new integrations have been enabled.

– Azure SQL Databases are one of the most popular ways to store relational data in the Microsoft Azure […]

1810, 2016

Monitoring support for Azure Backup Vaults (Recovery Services)

By |October 18th, 2016|Azure How To, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|1 Comment

Azure Backup is an important component of Azure ecosystem that helps organizations perform secure cloud backups of their on-premise and Azure-based virtual machines. In fact, many organizations begin their usage of Azure specifically for its backup capability, often because Azure cloud backup solves an important need and is very simple to get started with.

Recently, […]

1010, 2016

CloudMonix is now a part of Azure Marketplace!

By |October 10th, 2016|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features, News & Press|3 Comments

CloudMonix makes its debut in the Azure Marketplace!

Effective immediately, Azure customers can sign up and purchase CloudMonix monitoring and automation platform thru the Azure Marketplace.  Subscribing to CloudMonix thru the Marketplace gives users ability to log into CloudMonix directly thru the Azure portal.  Teams will also appreciate simplified billing experience, as payments for CloudMonix will be handled […]

2109, 2016

Latest features available in CloudMonix (Fall 2016)

By |September 21st, 2016|Cloud Monitoring, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Major CloudMonix features released over the summer
New monitoring/automation support for

Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Media Services
Azure (and non-Azure) Redis Cache
Azure DocumentDb
Azure File Storage
SQL Server databases
MySQL databases
Oracle databases
JSON/XML API endpoints

New integrations with 3rd parties systems

Autotask
Nagios XI
Zabbix
Zapier

Finally, users can now configure their CloudMonix monitoring setup via a […]

206, 2016

Monitoring Azure Stream Analytics

By |June 2nd, 2016|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Azure Stream Analytics is an important component of the Azure ecosystem that helps process large volumes of high velocity data.  As an example, many companies frequently use ASA to transform IOT generated data.  Until now, ensuring that Stream Analytics jobs run without errors has been a difficult task that required custom tooling.

Effective immediately, CloudMonix now supports monitoring of Azure Stream […]

1205, 2016

How to monitor free disk space on Azure VMs

By |May 12th, 2016|Azure How To, Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Monitoring disk usage is one of the most basic and critical tasks that Azure administrators should always be doing.  Filled to capacity disks cause major outages.

This article will show how CloudMonix will notify users when their Windows servers run out of disk space.  We will also discuss simple ways to automatically cleanup disks when space runs out.

New […]