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Description

Associated rules and monitors

Role Instance Availability and Status

This scenario monitors the role
instance health of each role instance as reported by Windows Azure

• Windows Azure Role Instance Status Monitor

Role Instance Performance

This scenario monitors the CPU and
Memory utilization of each role instance

• Available Megabytes
  of Memory
• Total CPU Utilization
  Percentage

Scale up/down

This scenario enables you to scale up
or down the number of role instances per role, by using a task

• Change number of role
  instances (task on the Role)

Virtual Machine Availability and Status

This scenario monitors the role
instance health of each Virtual Machine instance as reported by Windows Azure

• Virtual Machine Status
  Monitor

Storage Availability

This scenario monitors the availability
of the Storage Account endpoint

• Storage Account
  Availability Monitor

Storage Size

This scenario monitors the size of the
storage account and optionally alerts if the size of the storage account is too large

• Storage Account Size
  Monitor

Topology Dashboard

This scenario allows you to see how
your monitored resources are related to each other

• Topology dashboard
• Service Vicinity dashboard

Certificate health

This scenario monitors certificate expiration of management and cloud service certificates and alerts if the certificates are about to expire

• Windows Azure
  Subscription Certificate Expiration Monitor
• Windows Azure Hosted Service Certificate Expiration Monitor

Hybrid Application definition and
monitoring

This scenario allows you to model a
hybrid application using a new Distributed Application template and track availability and capacity of the application using provided dashboards

• Distributed Application template
• Availability dashboard
• Cloud Service capacity dashboard