Azure Files

Metrics, Dashboards, Alerts and more for Azure Files Integration in Sysdig Monitor.
Azure Files

This integration can be enabled via the Connect an Azure Account page.

This integration has 7 metrics.

List of Alerts

AlertDescriptionFormat
[Azure Files] Running Out of CapacityAzure Files is running out of space.Prometheus

List of Dashboards

Azure Files

The dashboard provides information on the Azure Files integration. Azure Files

List of Metrics

Metric name
azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_capacity_avg
azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_count_avg
azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_capacity_quota_avg
azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_count_avg
azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_provisioned_iops_avg
azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_snapshot_count_avg
azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_snapshot_size_avg

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Files

This document describes important metrics and queries that you can use to monitor and troubleshoot Azure Files.

The metrics covered in this document are applicable only to Azure Files. Sysdig offers a different integration for Azure Storage Accounts.

Most of the metrics return a value of 0 when it should be a null (not applicable) value. That’s why we recommend filtering them out with the PromQL expression metric_name > 0.

File Capacity

Use the following query to get the amount of File storage used by the storage account:

azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_capacity_avg > 0

File Count

Use the following query to get the number of files in the storage account:

azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_count_avg > 0

File Share Capacity Quota

Use the following query to get the upper limit on the amount of storage that can be used by Azure Files Service in bytes:

azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_capacity_quota_avg > 0

File Share Count

Use the number of file shares in the storage account:

azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_count_avg

File Share Snapshot Count

Use the following query to get the number of snapshots present on the share in storage account’s Files Service:

azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_snapshot_count_avg > 0

File Share Snapshot Count

Use the following query to get the amount of storage used by the snapshots in storage account’s File service in bytes:

azure_storage_storageaccounts_fileservices_file_share_snapshot_size_avg > 0