Azure Subscription

The Sumo Logic app for Azure Subscription allows you to collect, analyze, and monitor cloud activity logs in one centralized platform. This improves security, operational visibility, and compliance monitoring.

Azure Subscription is a foundational, logical container that grants access to Microsoft Azure cloud services, acting as the primary boundary for billing, security, and resource management.

Metric types

For Azure Subscription, you can collect the following metrics:

• Latency. Latency data for all requests to the Azure Subscription.
• Traffic. Traffic data for all requests to the Azure Subscription.

For more information on the supported metrics schema, refer to Azure documentation.

Setup

Azure service sends monitoring data to Azure Monitor, which can then stream data to Event Hub. Sumo Logic supports:

• Metrics collection using our Azure Metrics Source.

Configure collector

Create a hosted collector if not already configured and tag the tenant_name field. You can get the tenant name using the instructions here. Make sure you create the required sources in this collector.

Configure metrics collection

To set up the Azure Metrics source in Sumo Logic, refer to Azure Metrics Source.

Installing the Azure Subscription app

Now that you have set up data collection, install the Azure Subscription Sumo Logic app to use the pre-configured dashboards that provide visibility into your environment for real-time analysis of overall usage.

To install the app, do the following:

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Next-Gen App: To install or update the app, you must be an account administrator or a user with Manage Apps, Manage Monitors, Manage Fields, Manage Metric Rules, and Manage Collectors capabilities depending upon the different content types part of the app.

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the 🔎 Search Apps field, run a search for your desired app, then select it.
3. Click Install App.
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   Sometimes this button says Add Integration.

4. Click Next in the Setup Data section.
5. In the Configure App section of your respective app, complete the following field.
   1. Index. Specify value for _index if the collection is configured with custom partition. Learn more. Default value is set to sumologic_default (default partition)
6. Click Next. You will be redirected to the Preview & Done section.

Post-installation

Once your app is installed, it will appear in your Installed Apps folder, and dashboard panels will start to fill automatically.

Each panel slowly fills with data matching the time range query received since the panel was created. Results will not immediately be available but will be updated with full graphs and charts over time.

As part of the app installation process, the following fields will be created by default:

• tenant_name. This field is tagged at the collector level. You can get the tenant name using the instructions here.
• location. The region to which the resource name belongs.
• subscription_name. name associated with a subscription where the resource is present.
• provider_name. Azure resource provider name (for example, Microsoft.Network).
• resource_type. Azure resource type (for example, azureSubscriptions).

Viewing the Azure Subscription dashboards

All dashboards have a set of filters that you can apply to the entire dashboard. Use these filters to drill down and examine the data to a granular level.

• You can change the time range for a dashboard or panel by selecting a predefined interval from a drop-down list, choosing a recently used time range, or specifying custom dates and times. Learn more.
• You can use template variables to drill down and examine the data on a granular level. For more information, see Filtering Dashboards with Template Variables.
• Many of the Next-Gen apps allow you to provide the Index at the installation time and a default value for this key (sumologic_default). Based on your input, the app dashboards will be parameterized with a dashboard variable, allowing you to change the data partition queried by all panels. This restricts the query scope of all the dashboard queries to a specific data partition.

Latency

The Azure Subscription - Latency dashboard provides details like average subscription latency, operational latency, and region based api latency of the subscription API.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor overall and region-based API latency to ensure optimal application performance.
• Identify high-latency regions and status code classes impacting user experience.
• Track latency trends over time to detect performance degradation or anomalies.
• Analyze latency patterns to support troubleshooting and performance optimization.

Traffic

The Azure Subscription - Traffic dashboard provides details like average subscription traffic, operational traffic, and region based api traffic of the subscription API.

Use this dashboard to:

• Monitor total and average traffic across regions to understand usage patterns.

• Analyze traffic distribution by status code class to identify error spikes or abnormal behavior.

• Track traffic trends over time for demand forecasting and capacity planning.

• Detect sudden traffic surges or drops that may indicate service issues or external impacts.

  

Create monitors for Azure Subscription

From your App Catalog:

1. From the Sumo Logic navigation, select App Catalog.
2. In the Search Apps field, search for and then select your app.
3. Make sure the app is installed.
4. Navigate to What's Included tab and scroll down to the Monitors section.
5. Click Create next to the pre-configured monitors. In the create monitors window, adjust the trigger conditions and notifications settings based on your requirements.
6. Scroll down to Monitor Details.
7. Under Location click on New Folder.
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   By default, monitor will be saved in the root folder. So to make the maintenance easier, create a new folder in the location of your choice.

8. Enter Folder Name. Folder Description is optional.
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   Using app version in the folder name will be helpful to determine the versioning for future updates.

9. Click Create. Once the folder is created, click on Save.

Azure Subscription alerts

These alerts are metric-based and will work for all Azure Subscriptions.

| Alert Name | Alert Description and Conditions | Recover Condition | |:--|:--|:--|:--| | Azure Subscription - ARM Latency SLO Breach (Subscription‑wide) | This alert is triggered when Azure Resource Manager is slow for your whole subscription, and latency is greater than 2000 milliseconds. | Critical: > 2000
Warning: > 1500 | Critical: <= 2000
Warning: <= 1500 | | Azure Subscription - ARM Error-Rate Spike (4XX or 5XX) | This alert is triggered when failing ARM operations, deployments, reads, and policy calls at the subscription level are detected, and their count is greater than 100. | Critical: > 100
Warning: > 75 | Critical: <= 100
Warning: <= 75 |

Upgrade/Downgrade the Azure Subscription app (Optional)

To update the app, do the following:

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Next-Gen App: To install or update the app, you must be an account administrator or a user with Manage Apps, Manage Monitors, Manage Fields, Manage Metric Rules, and Manage Collectors capabilities depending upon the different content types part of the app.

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the Search Apps field, search for and then select your app.
   Optionally, you can identify apps that can be upgraded in the Upgrade available section.
3. To upgrade the app, select Upgrade from the Manage dropdown.
   1. If the upgrade does not have any configuration or property changes, you will be redirected to the Preview & Done section.
   2. If the upgrade has any configuration or property changes, you will be redirected to the Setup Data page.
   3. In the Configure section of your respective app, complete the following fields.
      1. Field Name. If you already have collectors and sources set up, select the configured metadata field name (eg _sourcecategory) or specify other custom metadata (eg: _collector) along with its metadata Field Value.
   4. Click Next. You will be redirected to the Preview & Done section.

Post-update

Your upgraded app will be installed in the Installed Apps folder and dashboard panels will start to fill automatically.

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See our Release Notes changelog for new updates in the app.

To revert the app to a previous version, do the following:

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the Search Apps field, search for and then select your app.
3. To version down the app, select Revert to < previous version of your app > from the Manage dropdown.

Uninstalling the Azure Subscription app (Optional)

To uninstall the app, do the following:

1. Select App Catalog.
2. In the 🔎 Search Apps field, run a search for your desired app, then select it.
3. Click Uninstall.

Troubleshooting

Metrics collection via Azure Metrics Source

To troubleshoot metrics collection via Azure Metrics Source, follow the instructions in Troubleshooting Azure Metrics Source.

Additional resources

• Blog: Azure monitoring and troubleshooting
• Glossary: Microsoft Azure