Monitoring Azure resources with Zabbix

I used this post as starting point.

Creating Azure application

(ID/keys will be used for authentication to Azure)

In Azure portal click Azure Active directory-App registrations-new App registration

In App registrations select All apps from drop-down menu-click on Zabbix application

Write down application ID (we’ll use it on scripts)

Click Settings-Keys-set a name,duration and click Save

Write down key

Write down TenantID

Write down Subscription ID-from Azure dashboard,click Cost Management + Billing under my subscription write subscription ID

Give application read rights to resource group

click on resource group-Access control (IAM)

click Add-select Reader role-Assign access to Azure AD user,group or application and select Zabbix application

Install powershell on Zabbix server (CentOS)

# Register the Microsoft RedHat repository

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft.repo

# Install PowerShell

sudo yum install -y powershell

Extract azure.zip and copy all files in azure.zip to /usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts, make sure *.sh files are executable

Supported services are SQL,storage account,Virtual Machines and Virtual Network gateway

All available services and metric: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-supported-metrics

Time periods (monitoring intervals) are called timegrains

time_grains = {
"PT1M" => "1 Minute",
"PT5M" => "5 Minutes",
"PT1H" => "1 Hour",
"PT12H" => "12 Hours"
}


In trapper.ps1 and azure.ps1 substitute TenantID,applicationID, application key in appropriate sections/

Files can be downloaded from here

Testing

For VM:

./azure.sh resource group subscription vm

For SQL:

./azure.sh resource group subscription sql

For network gateway:

./azure.sh resource group subscription vng

For Storage account

./azure.sh resource group subscription storage

[root@ip-172-31-27-77 externalscripts]# ./azure.sh RG  subscriptionD storage

{"data":[

{

"{#ID}": "/subscriptions/111-222-333/resourceGroups/RG/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/storageaccount",

"{#STORAGEACCOUNT}": "storageaccount"

},

{

"{#ID}": "/subscriptions/111-222-333/resourceGroups/RG/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/storageaccount",

"{#STORAGEACCOUNT}": "storageaccount"

},

{

"{#ID}": "/subscriptions/111-222-333/resourceGroups/RG/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/storageaccount",

"{#STORAGEACCOUNT}": "storageaccount"

}

]

}

give ownership of azure.json to zabbix user:

chown zabbix:zabbix azure.json

create dummy host and attach template, specify resource group and subscription ID

Test zabbix trapper:

./trapper.sh zabbix-dummy-host

if no issues,create cron job for trapper (for example to run it every 15 minutes):

*/15 * * * * /usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts/trapper.sh dummy-host