Exercise - Add Azure Monitor metrics to a custom portal dashboard

To get ready for moving client proofs into Azure Blob Storage, you want to see how to create the dashboards for ongoing monitoring.

In this exercise, you create an Azure dashboard and then add storage metric charts to it.

Create a custom dashboard

On the Azure portal menu, select Dashboard.
In the dashboard area, select + Create, and then select Custom.
At the top of the new dashboard area, delete the default My Dashboard title, and enter Storage Dashboard as a new title, and then select Save.
Select Edit. On the right side, under Tile Gallery, select Markdown, and then select Add.
In the Edit Markdown panel, in the Title box, clear the contents of the box and enter Blob Storage.
In the Subtitle box, clear the contents of the box and enter Blob Storage metric information.
In the Content box, delete the sample text, enter This dashboard displays charts for the Blob Storage account, and then select Done.
Select the corner marker in the lower-right corner of the Markdown tile. Drag the marker to resize the tile to five squares across by two squares down on the background grid.
Select Save at the top of the dashboard.

On the Azure portal menu, select Monitor.
On the Monitor - Overview pane, select Metrics.
Under the chart toolbar, choose Select a scope.
In the Select a scope panel:
1. In the Subscription drop-down list, ensure that only the concierge subscription you're using for the exercises is selected.
2. In the Resource type drop-down list, select Storage accounts.
3. In the search box type the name of the storage account that you created in unit (For example: select monitorstorageaccount). In the results list, select that storage account and then select Apply.
Under the chart toolbar, in the Metric namespace drop-down list, select Blob.
In the Metric drop-down list, select Egress.
On the chart toolbar, select the Save to dashboard menu, and then select Pin to current dashboard, and then select Pin.

Below the chart toolbar, next to Egress (Sum) oval, select the close button to remove the previous metric from the chart.
On the chart toolbar, select Add metric.
Under the chart toolbar, select the scope field.
On the Select a resource panel:
1. In the Subscription drop-down list, ensure that only the subscription you're using for the exercises is selected.
2. In the Resource type drop-down list, select Storage accounts.
3. In the search box type the name of the storage account that you created in unit (For example: select monitorstorageaccount). In the results list, select that storage account and then select Apply.
Under the chart toolbar, in the Metric namespace drop-down list, select Blob.
In the Metric drop-down list, select Transactions.
On the chart toolbar, select Apply splitting.
In the Select value(s) drop-down list, select API name.
On the chart toolbar, select the ellipsis (...), and then select Chart settings.
On the Chart settings panel:
Under Chart title, select Custom.
Under Custom, clear the text box, and then enter Blob transactions split by API.
Close the Chart settings panel.
On the chart toolbar, select the Save to dashboard menu, and then select Save to Dashboard.
On the left pane, select Dashboard.
Under the dashboard title, select UTC Time: Past 24 hours.
In the drop-down list, select Past 48 hours, and then select Apply.

On the Azure portal menu, select Storage accounts.
On the Storage accounts page, select the name of the storage account that you created in unit 3.
In the Data storage section, select Containers.
On the Blobs page, select monitor-blobs-container.
On the monitor-blobs-container page:
1. Select the name of a file that you previously uploaded.
2. On the overview page for the file, select Download on the toolbar.
3. Download the file when you're prompted.
4. Repeat the previous three steps with several other files.
On the Azure portal menu, select Dashboard.

After a delay of up to 15 minutes, you should see some lines appear on the chart. The lines represent the downloads that you performed.