Azure Management Costs

Pack Assets

Templates

The Centreon Plugin Pack Azure Costs brings a host template:

Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Api-custom

It brings the following service template:

Service Alias	Service Template	Service Description	Default	Discovery
Budget	Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Budgets-Api	Check consumption for a given budget		X
Costs-Explorer-Resource-Group	Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Costs-Explorer-Resource-Group	Check costs per resource groups
Costs-Explorer-Subscription	Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Costs-Explorer-Subscription	Check costs for the whole subscription	X
Hybrid-Benefits-Compliance	Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Hybrid-Benefits	Check that hybrid benefits are enabled on all available resources	X
Orphan-Resources	Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Orphan-Resources	Check the number of orphaned resources	X
Tags-Compliance	Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Tags-Compliance	Check that required tag is

Discovery rules

Services

Rule name	Description
Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Budgets	Discover and list configured Azure budget

Collected metrics & status

Metric Name	Unit
azure.budget.consumption.currency

Metric Name	Unit
resource_group#azure.resourcegroup.costs

Metric Name	Unit
azure.subscription.global.costs

Metric Name	Unit
azure.resources.nohybridbenefits.count	count
azure.vm.nohybridbenefits.count	count
azure.sqlvm.nohybridbenefits.count	count
azure.sqldatabase.nohybridbenefits.count	count
azure.elasticpool.nohybridbenefits.count	count

Metric Name	Unit
azure.resources.orphaned.count	count
azure.manageddisks.orphaned.count	count
azure.nics.orphaned.count	count
azure.nsgs.orphaned.count	count
azure.publicips.orphaned.count	count
azure.routetables.orphaned.count	count
azure.snapshots.orphaned.count	count

Metric Name	Unit
azure.tags.resource.notcompliant.count	count
azure.tags.vm.notcompliant.count	count

Prerequisites

Check out the endpoint documentation here. It describes the required privileges to use the API.

Setup

Online License
Offline License

Install the plugin package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor Azure Costs resources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Api

On the Centreon web interface, on page Configuration > Plugin Packs, install the Azure Costs Centreon Plugin Pack.

Install the plugin package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor Azure Costs resources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Api

Install the Azure Costs Centreon Plugin Pack RPM on the Centreon central server:

yum install centreon-pack-cloud-azure-management-costs

On the Centreon web interface, on page Configuration > Plugin Packs, install the Azure Costs Centreon Plugin Pack.

Configuration

Host

Log into Centreon and add a new host through Configuration > Hosts.
Fill the Name, Alias & IP Address/DNS fields according to your Azure Costs server settings.
Apply the Cloud-Azure-Management-Costs-Api-custom template to the host.
Once the template is applied, fill in the corresponding macros. Some macros are mandatory.

Mandatory	Macro	Description
X	AZURECLIENTID	Client ID
X	AZURECLIENTSECRET	Client secret
X	AZURESUBSCRIPTION	Subscription ID
X	AZURETENANT	Tenant ID

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?

Once the plugin is installed, log into your Centreon poller's CLI using the centreon-engine user account (su - centreon-engine) and test the plugin by running the following command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_azure_management_costs_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::azure::management::costs::plugin \
    --mode=budgets \
    --tenant='abcd1234-5678-90ab-cd12-34567890abcd' \
    --client-id='9876dcba-5432-10dc-ba98-76543210dcba' \
    --client-secret='8/RON4vUGhAcg6DRmSxc4AwgxSRoNfKg4d8xNizIMnwg=' \
    --budget-name='myBudgetName' \
    --lookup-days='30' \
    --warning-usage='95' \
    --critical-usage='98' \
    --units='%' \
    --verbose

The expected command output is shown below:

OK: Spent amount is 1400.25EUR on 1500EUR of allowed budget (93.33% consumption) for the past 30 days | 'azure.budget.consumption.currency'=1400.25;0:1425;0:1485;0;1500

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --help parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_azure_management_costs_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::azure::management::costs::plugin \
    --mode=budgets \
    --help

All available modes can be displayed by adding the --list-mode parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_azure_management_costs_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::azure::management::costs::plugin \
    --list-mode

Troubleshooting

Please find the troubleshooting documentation for Centreon Plugins typical issues.

Pack Assets​

Templates​

Discovery rules​

Collected metrics & status​

Prerequisites​

Setup​

Configuration​

Host​

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?​

Troubleshooting​