Azure Log Search API to Grab Information

Question

Hello,

Thanks ahead of time for any information you can provide. What I am attempting to do is this. I have a custom query that grabs the heal status of our vm. The in that query results i have the vms information like it if is health or unhealthy so we can start patching.

Is there an API on this that can help grab the project output that says it is health or unhealth. Or do you happen to know a better way of grabbing this infomration?

Answer 1

Hello, @LaVar Blalock !

How can I use a REST API to get the health of my VMs?

You can use the Azure Resource Health API or the Azure Monitor API to look at the health of a VM or other Azure resources. There are two Microsoft Developer blogs that go into this in detail:

• Understanding health criteria in Azure Monitor for VMs
  The APIs can be used to identify what health criteria are applicable or active on a particular VM, and to get their IDs that are required for other API-related operations. Updates to health states are governed by two additional parameters, frequency and lookback period. Enabling or disabling an alert on a health criterion and updating the threshold of a Health Criteria can also be done using APIs. To associate Action group(s) with any of a VM’s health criteria, create a file titled “file_name” and update its extension to “.json”.
• How to use Azure Resource Health API to gain visibility into the health of a VM, Web App or SQL Database

To identify what health criteria are applicable or active on a particular VM, and to get their IDs that are required for other API-related operations, use the following GET API example leveraging ARM client on command prompt shown below.

"subscriptions/Subscription_Name/resourceGroups/Resource_Group_Name/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/VM_Name/providers/Microsoft.WorkloadMonitor/monitors?api-version=2018-08-31-preview”