Azure IIS Paas Application monitoring with Applicare

Follow the below steps to monitor IIS applications running in azure with Applicare. Requires Java 7 or higher and will not work with Java 6.

1. Login into Azure Portal.

2. Search for "azure active directory" and select the "Azure Active Directory" option from the drop-down.

3. Select "App registrations" under the Manage section.

4. Click "+ New Registration" .

5. Click "+ New Registration".

6. Register the application using the below steps and copy the client and tenant Id.

Enter "applicare" in the name field.
Select option "Accounts in this organizational directory only (Default Directory only - Single tenant)" in the Supported account types.
Click the "Register" button.

In the applicare overview screen copy the client and tenant Id and place it in any text file.

Copy and pasted the Id's in a text file.

7. Select "Certificates & secrets" from the Manage section.

8. Click "+ New client secret".

9. Follow the below steps to create the secret key.

10. Copy the secret key value and paste it in the previously created text file and name it as client secret key.

11. Search for "subscriptions" in the search bar and select the "Subscriptions" option.

12.Select the subscription name.

13. Select "Access control (IAM)".

14. Click the "+ Add" button and select "Add role assignment" option.

15. Follow the below steps to add the "applicareapp".

Select "Reader" option the Role drop-down.
Select "Azure AD user, group, or service principal" option the Assign Access to drop-down.
Type "applicare" in the select field and select "applicare".
Click the "Save" button.

16. Check "applicare" is added as a service principal for the subscription.

Select Acces Control (IAM).
Select Role assignments.
Enter "applicare" in the Name field. If the "applicare" is added successfully it will be displayed in the table.

17. Go to "Overview" screen and copy the subscription Id and paste in the previously created text file.

Note:

The above Id's are used to configure in Applicare Overview menu.

1. Install the standalone agent.
Please refer the standalone agent installation steps from the below link.

After completing the installation start the agent.

2. Login into Applicare console.

3. Go to "Overview" screen and select the server and click "Edit" button.

4. Scroll down and enable the "Add Azure IIS Configuration" check-box.

Paste the copied Client Id, Tenant Id, Client secret key and Subscription Id in the respective fields.
Click the Update button.

5. Select the server and click "Edit" button and select Manage Applications option.

6. Enter the Application name and click Add button and click Save button.

7. Go to "Server Analyzer" menu and select the settings icon.

8. The "Application Monitoring Settings" popup will be opened.

By default, all the applications will be in the excluded grid.
Click on the application names which we need to start monitoring. So the selected applications will be moved to the Include monitoring grid.
Click 'Save" button to save the changes.
In the next few minutes it will start capture the metrics.

All the applications in the excluded grid.