Best Solution For HTTP Health Dashboard Using Grafana?

Question

I am looking to implement a solution to display a dashboard which shows the health of our applications. The checks would make a simple HTTP call to determine whether a application is healthy or not.

Some of the applications are public, some are only accessible privately, all of them however live on Application Gateway WAF V2.

What is the best solution for this, ideally we would like a dashboard in Azure Managed Grafana.

There are limitations with App Insights, this can only check public sites which is not suitable for us.

Answer 1

Hi devopsfj

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• Make sure you have an active Azure subscription and set up an Azure Managed Grafana workspace if you haven't already.
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/managed-grafana/how-to-create-dashboard?tabs=azure-portal
• You can select either the Essential or Standard tier, but the Standard tier is recommended for production environments because it offers additional features and service level agreement (SLA) guarantees.
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/managed-grafana/overview
• Since some of your applications are private, you'll need to set up your Grafana instance to access them securely. You can do this by using managed identities or by setting up the right authentication methods for private endpoints.
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/visualize/grafana-plugin
• Grafana to monitor HTTP health. If they don't support HTTP checks, create a custom data source or use plugins.
• In Grafana, go to Dashboards > New Dashboard and add panels. For each application, create a panel to show health check results with a status indicator graphs for historical data.
• Set up alerts in Grafana based on health check results. This will notify you when an application is down or not responding.
• Use Azure Managed Grafana's sharing features to collaborate with your team. You can share dashboards internally or externally as needed. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/managed-grafana/

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