Today we are excited to announce the Beta 1 release of our new Azure availability monitoring service – AzureServiceMon.Com. We’ve taken all of the great IP and architecture that we’ve used at Office365Mon.Com to build a very powerful, yet incredibly simple to use, service for monitoring the availability of your Microsoft Azure resources.
Getting started is quite simple and for most folks will literally only take a minute or two to get up and running. You’ll go in and create a new AzureServiceMon subscription, and then tell us to go inventory the list of resources you have with your Azure subscription. Go grab a cup of coffee, but be quick about it because it normally only takes a minute for us to inventory all of your Azure resources. Then it’s as simple as checking boxes next to the types of resources that you want us to monitor. Here’s an example:
After that, well…you’re basically done! We start our monitoring thing at that point. You get all of the same great notification options as we have at Office365Mon – emails, text messages, and webhook notifications. Once we’ve started monitoring, almost immediately you’ll be able to get a snapshot view of what’s going on when you visit your My Info page:
With a quick glance here, I can see I have one or more Traffic Manager outages that are occurring, and if I click on that item it will expand to show me the latest status of each of my Traffic Manager resources so I can see exactly what’s going on.
We also start out with a nice collection of reports for you to use that display summary data for all of the health checks we perform and outages we track. This includes a great pivot table view of your data, so you can quickly and easily slice and dice your numbers by things like resource Location, resource group, Azure resource type, etc. Here’s a quick example with a variety of slicers and counts:
There’s a lot here to get started with, but as is always our goal, we’ve tried to make it as simple as possible to get going and start using it. Everyone can use it for free during the beta release, and if you check out our Beta 1 Readme PDF, you’ll see how you can sign up to get additional free months of monitoring after we complete our beta cycle.
These kinds of releases are also always the best time to give us your feedback about what you like or what you would like to see. It gives you an opportunity to help shape the service into something that works well for you.
So, for monitoring the availability of your Azure resources, go check out https://azureservicemon.com today and click on the big Start Now link to get started. For monitoring Office 365, go to https://www.office365mon.com and use our Start Now link there.
As always, we appreciate your feedback and look forward to building another great monitoring service for you.
From Sunny Phoenix,
Steve
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