AppDynamics Azure and Service Fabric Monitoring Extension

Use Case

Monitor Metrics provided by the Azure Monitor/Service Fabric APIs and let them report into the AppDynamics Metric Browser.

Prerequisites

• This extension requires the Java Machine Agent.

Installation

Either Download the Extension from the AppDynamics Marketplace or Download the Extension from the Github releases or Build from Source.

1. Deploy the AzureMonitor-.zip file into the/monitors directory.

   > unzip AzureMonitor-<VERSION>.zip -d  <machine agent home>/monitors/

2. Set up config.yml. At minimum this is:

   # Client ID obtained from the Azure Portal
   clientId: ""
   
   # Client Key for the upper ID obtained from the Azure Portal
   clientKey: ""
   
   # Tenant ID obtained from the Azure Portal
   tenantId: ""
   
   # Subscription ID obtained from the Azure Portal
   subscriptionId: ""
   

   Details for the Setup can be found in the Azure - Resource Manager - Howto - Control Access - Create Service Principal - Azure Portal

3. Restart the Machine Agent.

Build from Source

1. Clone this repository
2. Run mvn -DskipTests clean install
3. The AzureMonitor-.zip file can be found in the target directory

Directory Structure

Metrics

Metrics available for Azure are maintained within the Azure Monitor Documentation - Reference - Metrics Supported.

Excluding Metrics for Resources

You can exclude certain Metrics by adding an exclude within a filter Resource Element. To do this the following configuration in config.yml is required:

  filter:
    - resourceType: "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"
      exclude: ".*"

A regular expression is needed. Any match will be ignored for that specific resource.

Integration with Azure Key Vault

If you do not want to store the Client Key from the Service Principal that is used to query Resources, Metric Definitions and Metrics you can obtain the Key from an Azure Key Vault Secret. To achieve this the following configuration in config.yml is required:

  
  # Keyvault Client ID obtained from the Azure Portal
  keyvaultClientId: ""

  # Keyvault Key for the upper ID obtained from the Azure Portal
  keyvaultClientKey: ""

  # Keyvault Client Secret Url. From this URL the clientKey will be obtained
  keyvaultClientSecretUrl: ""

  # Client ID obtained from the Azure Portal
  clientId: ""

The Key Vault Client Key can also be encrypted just as the normal Client Key.

Service Fabric Authentication

Currently the Extension supports Certificate based Authentication to gather the Health Status of your Service Fabric Clusters. To use this those properties in config.yml have to be used:

  serviceFabricCert: 'monitors/AzureMonitor/your-cert.pfx'
  serviceFabricPassphrase: ''

Password Encryption Support

To avoid setting the clear text password in the config.yml. Please follow the process to encrypt the password and set the encrypted password and the key in the config.yml.

• Download the util jar to encrypt the password from here
• Encrypt password from the commandline

java -cp appd-exts-commons-.jar com.appdynamics.extensions.crypto.Encryptor myEncryptionKey myPasswordToEnrypt

Contributing

Always feel free to fork and contribute any changes directly via GitHub.

Troubleshooting

1. Verify Machine Agent Data: Please start the Machine Agent without the extension and make sure that it reports data. Verify that the machine agent status is UP and it is reporting Hardware Metrics.
2. config.yml: Validate the file here.
3. Metric Limit: Please start the machine agent with the argument -Dappdynamics.agent.maxMetrics=5000 if there is a metric limit reached error in the logs. If you don't see the expected metrics, this could be the cause.
4. Check Logs: There could be some obvious errors in the machine agent logs. Please take a look.
5. The config cannot be null error: This usually happens when on a windows machine in monitor.xml you give config.yml file path with linux file path separator /. Use Windows file path separator \ e.g. monitors\Monitor\config.yml. For Windows, please specify the complete path.
6. Collect Debug Logs: Edit the file, conf/logging/log4j.xml and update the level of the appender com.appdynamics and com.singularity to debug. Let it run for 5-10 minutes and attach the logs to a support ticket.

Support

For any questions or feature request, please contact AppDynamics Center of Excellence.