909, 2017

How to Use Update Management Solution to Manage Updates for Your Azure VMs

By |September 9th, 2017|Azure News, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Update Management solution is used to access and manage the Azure VM updates. It lets you check the status of the updates and you can select and initiate updates or verify them by reviewing the deployment results to the VM. Currently, a private preview is the only available feature which you can access by signing […]

1805, 2017

Receive and manage CloudMonix notifications in PagerDuty

By |May 18th, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

PagerDuty is a popular tool for alerting, on-call scheduling, managing escalation policies and incident tracking created to help increase uptime of apps, servers, websites and databases.

CloudMonix provides a direct API integration to PagerDuty. Incidents for PagerDuty services can be automatically created when CloudMonix raises an alert, and they can be automatically resolved when the alert […]

305, 2017

How to effectively manage multiple environments in CloudMonix

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

 

IT Organizations that need to maintain and monitor multiple environments (i.e. Production, Dev, QA, Staging, etc.) for systems that they develop, can use CloudMonix’s Accounts feature to effectively organize and separate their environments.

By creating multiple Accounts within a single CloudMonix Subscription, users can get the following benefits:

Data separation per environment
Easy User and […]

305, 2017

Send CloudMonix data to Zabbix or Nagios XI

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

Zabbix and Nagios XI are popular enterprise-level solutions for monitoring large numbers of applications, servers, VMs, and network devices in real-time. However, at this time, they lack native Azure monitoring capabilities.

If your organization is using one of these tools, you can configure CloudMonix to send raw metrics data to them. Azure metrics collected by CloudMonix […]

305, 2017

Import data collected by CloudMonix into your own SQL database

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

Relational databases such as SQL Server or SQL Azure, come with a number of powerful analysis tools that allow creating visualizations and complex reports often without a need for programming.

CloudMonix provides a convenient integration for organizations that need to develop custom reports or visualizations of the data it captures. Raw metric data can be […]

305, 2017

Receive and manage CloudMonix notifications in Autotask

By |May 3rd, 2017|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Drip, IT Management|0 Comments

Autotask is a popular IT Management Platform that provides visibility and central control to daily operations. It comes with built-in best practices aligned with ITIL guidelines. Autotask is a powerful and very flexible tool,  it can be customized to fit even the most complex processes in large organizations.

API integration to AutoTask allows CloudMonix to automatically […]

2004, 2017

How to effectively monitor and manage multiple customers in CloudMonix

By |April 20th, 2017|Cloud Monitoring, IT Management|0 Comments

If you are a Service Provider IT organization that maintains and monitors systems for multiple customers, many considerations should be accounted for, in addition to actual monitoring, such as:

User & Permission management
Customer reporting
Data affinity and isolation
Centralized configuration management
White-labeling
Volume discounts

CloudMonix has a number of features that address issues mentioned above […]

1204, 2017

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets – The Basics

By |April 12th, 2017|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|2 Comments

In this post, we are going to discuss Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS).

We will learn:

What VM scale sets are
How are VM scale sets configured
When to use VM scale sets

Scale sets provide an ability to deploy and manage multiple identical VMs. Scaling in and out allows Azure administrators to increase or decrease […]

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, […]