How to View Azure Fileshare Used Capacity in Logs and Display in a Dashboard?

Suthii09 0

Hi,

I want to see the used capacity in Azure Fileshare and display the results in a dashboard. However, it is not working as expected. I am only getting these outputs:

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Yet, I can see the used capacity under Insights:

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Stanislav Zhelyazkov 25,771 Reputation points MVP

2025-02-04T09:11:36.83+00:00

Hi,

If I understand correctly you are sending diagnostic settings from File share service on storage account to Log Analytics but you are not seeing FileCapacity metric in the logs. The reason for that is this is by design. Not all metrics can be send to Log Analytics when diagnostic settings are configured. You can check this page: Supported metrics for Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/fileServices. In the table there column DS export. This stands for diagnostic settings export. That column designates if the metric will can be exported via diagnostic settings. In this case FileCapacity metrics is not exportable via diagnostic settings thus it does not appear. What I can suggest is to use Azure Monitor workbook. Workbooks can visualize data from metrics, that way you will not need the metric to be available in Log Analytics to visualize it.

Update: Another workaround you can try is Metrics export through data collection rules (Preview). It is not clear if the diagnostic setting limitation on metrics apply also to that new feature. Take into consideration that is preview feature and supported only on certain regions.

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Suthii09 0 Reputation points

2025-02-04T10:13:22.2766667+00:00

Hi @Stanislav Zhelyazkov ,

thanks for the reply.

I have some issue when i do the steps which you recommend to me

Why i can't see in the workbook some File Capacity value? When i click on "Run Metrics" some values are showing and for some fileshares not ? I saw that i must change the time range to 24 hours? Then it is showing. When i select < 24 hours then its not showing

And i want to sort the Colum by Name A->Z but its also not working. When i click on the arrow (up and down) then its starting with letter "s" or "t"

Stanislav Zhelyazkov 25,771 Reputation points MVP

2025-02-04T10:48:41.6133333+00:00

I have not recommended any specific workbook. If you are using some built-in workbook you need to specify which workbook and where do you navigate to see the data so I can check as well what you have in mind exactly. If you are building your own workbook you have to specify step by step what exactly you are doing to build the workbook and may be even provide the code of the workbook (json) so I can check. Without this information is hard for me to follow trough with partial screenshots and no details.

Suthii09 0 Reputation points

2025-02-04T11:04:43.1833333+00:00

@Stanislav Zhelyazkov

I build my own workbook. For this i went to Azure Workbook -> New -> Add -> Add Metric.

Then i selected and setup like this:

Resource type : Storage Account ;
Selected 100 Storage Account ; - in Json you can see only one - i removed for data protection the lines
Time Range: 24 hours
and Metric Settings

{ "type": 10, "content": { "chartId": "workbooke37fbab2-85d2-4c1f-8e34-802e5f19f049", "version": "MetricsItem/2.0", "size": 0, "chartType": 0, "resourceType": "microsoft.storage/storageaccounts", "metricScope": 0, "resourceIds": [ "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/xxxxxxxxxxxxx" ], "timeContext": { "durationMs": 86400000 }, "metrics": [ { "namespace": "microsoft.storage/storageaccounts/fileservices", "metric": "microsoft.storage/storageaccounts/fileservices-Capacity-FileCapacity", "aggregation": 4 } ], "gridSettings": { "formatters": [ { "columnMatch": "Subscription", "formatter": 5 }, { "columnMatch": "Name", "formatter": 13, "formatOptions": { "linkTarget": "Resource" } }, { "columnMatch": "microsoft.storage/storageaccounts/fileservices-Capacity-FileCapacity Timeline", "formatter": 5 }, { "columnMatch": "microsoft.storage/storageaccounts/fileservices-Capacity-FileCapacity", "formatter": 1, "numberFormat": { "unit": 2, "options": null } } ], "rowLimit": 10000, "sortBy": [ { "itemKey": "$gen_link_Name_1", "sortOrder": 1 } ], "labelSettings": [ { "columnId": "microsoft.storage/storageaccounts/fileservices-Capacity-FileCapacity", "label": "File Capacity (Average)" }, { "columnId": "microsoft.storage/storageaccounts/fileservices-Capacity-FileCapacity Timeline", "label": "File Capacity Timeline" } ] }, "sortBy": [ { "itemKey": "$gen_link_Name_1", "sortOrder": 1 } ] }, "name": "metric - 0" }

Stanislav Zhelyazkov 25,771 Reputation points MVP

2025-02-04T11:46:55.4766667+00:00

The reason for now showing values is most likely there are no metrics for those accounts for the specified time period. You can check the metrics directly by going to the blade of each storage account change the scope to the sub-resource file of the storage account and select the desired metrics. You will see line chart for the metrics. If it is dotted at some point there is no metrics currently for that period. You might need to change the granularity of the chart. Usually capacity metrics are omitted every hour.

Sorting is correct but it is sorting by resource ID thus it first sorts by subscription ID, than by resource group and after that by name. You can try to apply grouping Subscription but in that case you will have sorting by resource group and after that by name. If you have any further questions about Azure Workbooks it might be best to post separate Q&A questions for those.

Ashok Gandhi Kotnana 3,145 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2025-02-07T04:14:29.62+00:00

Hi @Suthii09 ,

Can you please refer to @Stanislav Zhelyazkov comment If you find this helpful, please don't forget to accept the answer. For Azure Workbooks, feel free to raise a separate Q&A question for further inquiries.

Thankyou
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