Azure Integration - Virtual Machines

Mackerel supports obtaining and monitoring Virtual Machines metrics in Azure Integration. When integrating with Azure Integration, billable targets are determined using the conversion 1 Instance = 1 Standard Host.

Please refer to the following page for Azure Integration configuration methods and a list of supported Azure services.
Azure Integration

Obtaining metrics

The metrics obtainable with Azure Integration’s Virtual Machines support are as follows. For metric explanations, refer to the Azure help page.

The maximum number of metrics obtainable is 11.

Graph name Metric Metric name in Mackerel Unit Aggregation Type
CPU Percentage CPU azure.virtual_machine.cpu.percent percentage Average
CPU Credits Remaining/Consumed CPU Credits Remaining
CPU Credits Consumed
azure.virtual_machine.cpu_credits.remaining
azure.virtual_machine.cpu_credits.consumed
float Average
Disk IOPS Disk Read Operations/Sec
Disk Write Operations/Sec
azure.virtual_machine.disk_iops.read
azure.virtual_machine.disk_iops.write
iops Average
VM Availability Metric VmAvailabilityMetric azure.virtual_machine.availability float Average
Network In/Out Network In
Network Out
azure.virtual_machine.network.in
azure.virtual_machine.network.out
bytes Total
Network In/Out Total Network In Total
Network Out Total
azure.virtual_machine.network_total.in
azure.virtual_machine.network_total.out
bytes Total
Disk Read/Write Bytes Disk Read Bytes
Disk Write Bytes
azure.virtual_machine.disk.read
azure.virtual_machine.disk.write
bytes Total
  • For CPU Credits Remaining/Consumed metrics, only burstable instance type are retrieved.
  • VM Availability Metric is in preview on Microsoft Azure, so the behavior may change due to specification changes (as of October 2024).

Using with mackerel-agent

If mackerel-agent has already been installed on the target Virtual Machine instance, host information from Mackerel will automatically be integrated and registered as one host. It will not be counted twice as a billable host.

If you prefer a more detailed style of monitoring with AWS Integration, we recommend installing mackerel-agent for Virtual Machines.