Azure Front Door Monitoring Integration

Azure Front Door is a scalable entry point for building quick, secure, and broadly scalable online applications using the Microsoft global network. Front Door is simple to set up, deploy, and maintain, and it integrates seamlessly with Azure services and modern content delivery network technologies.

With Site24x7's integration with Azure Front Door, you can now monitor your Front Door, configure thresholds, and receive alerts about critical issues.

Setup and configuration

You can add Azure Front Door while adding a new monitor or you can add it to an existing Azure monitor. Follow these steps to add the service.

Supported metrics

The following metrics are collected:

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Backend Health Percentage	The percentage of successful health probes from the HTTP/S proxy to the backend	Average	Percent
Backend Request Count	The number of requests sent from the HTTP/S proxy to the backend	Total	Count
Backend Request Latency	The time calculated from when the request was sent by the HTTP/S proxy to the backend until the HTTP/S proxy received the last response byte from the backend	Average	MilliSeconds
Billable Response Size	The number of billable bytes (minimum 2KB per request) sent as responses from the HTTP/S proxy to clients	Total	Bytes
Request Count	The number of client requests served by the HTTP/S proxy	Total	Count
Request Size	The number of bytes sent as requests from clients to the HTTP/S proxy	Total	Bytes
Response Size	The number of bytes sent as responses from the HTTP/S proxy to clients	Total	Bytes
Total Latency	The time calculated from when the client request was received by the HTTP/S proxy until the client acknowledged the last response byte from the HTTP/S proxy	Average	MilliSeconds
Web Application Firewall Request Count	The number of client requests processed by the Web Application Firewall	Total	Count

Threshold configuration

Global configuration

Go to the Admin section in the left navigation pane.
Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and choose the Threshold and Availability (+) tab from the drop-down menu. Click Add Threshold Profile in the top-right corner.
Set the monitor type as Azure Front Door. You can now set the threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.

Monitor-level configuration

Go to Cloud > Azure and select Azure Front Door from the drop-down menu.
Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold, then click the hamburger icon . Select Edit, which will direct you to the Edit Azure Front Door Monitor page.
You can set the threshold values for the metrics by selecting Threshold and Availability. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT Automation tools to auto-resolve performance degradation issues. These tools react to events proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

Configuration Rules

With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can set parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors.

How to add Configuration Rules