Microsoft Monitoring Agent Azure VM Extension Heartbeat Service in event log

[Sarika Sharma]

Hi,

In my windows vm event log, I see the following entry every night around 7:30pm.

A service was installed in the system.

Service Name: Microsoft Monitoring Agent Azure VM Extension Heartbeat Service
Service File Name: "C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.EnterpriseCloud.Monitoring.MicrosoftMonitoringAgent\1.0.11081.2\MMAExtensionHeartbeatService.exe"
Service Type: user mode service
Service Start Type: demand start
Service Account: LocalSystem

I checked the activity log and I see a write entry for Backup Management Service around the same time? Are these two related? Whenever the backup is initiated, does it install the monitoring agent heartbeat service?

Thanks

Sarika

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hello Sarika,

The Monitoring Agent is part of OMS data collection and it is used for different services, backup been one of them. See article below.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/operations-management-suite/operations-management-suite-overv...

Thanks.