How does eG Enterprise Monitor Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
eG Enterprise provides a specialized Microsoft Azure Application Gateway model to monitor the traffic load balancing for web applications in Microsoft Azure. To collect metrics from the target Application Gateway, eG Enterprise employs an agent-based monitoring approach - i.e., it uses an eG external agent deployed on any host/VM in the environment. This eG external agent communicates with the Microsoft Azure cloud and pulls metrics related to web-traffic load balancing by making Azure ARM REST API calls. With the help of these metrics:
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Administrators can monitor, detect, diagnose, and resolve performance deficiencies related to the web-traffic in the environment, well before they impact the experience of consumers;
To enable the eG agent to pull metrics on web-traffic load balancing, you need to make sure that the requirements detailed in
