Hello everyone,
after a long time, I am back with a new post. Today I will drive you through the configuration of a load balanced Log Analytics Gateway (formerly OMS Gateway and briefly referred below as LAGW) installed on Azure Virtual machines, using the Azure Load Balancer.
In this post, I am not going to discuss capacity and sizing of the necessary virtual machines nor I am going to discuss the steps to install and configure them in an Availability Set.
Trust me , the size I went for is in line with the hardware requirements you can find in the Set up your system page and the availability set configuration was performed following the guidance and principles from the article Manage the availability of Windows virtual machines in Azure.
Basically, the Log Analytics Gateway is an HTTP forward proxy dedicated to the outbound Microsoft Monitoring Agent communication with the Log Analytics workspace. Common circumstances in which you could use it are:
Despite the native redundancy capabilities offered by Azure, installing a single virtual machine acting as LAGW, represents a single point of failure hence you might want to make your LAGW highly available. Of course, Azure gives the ability of configuring load balancing as well as the On-premises does. Since the Network Load Balancing (NLB) configuration is documented in the Configure network load balancing page, below I will only focus on the Cloud part shortly summarizing what’s necessary to get to this configuration.
Implementing this configuration requires you plan for the below items:
Once you’ve finished the virtual machine configuration and installation (including the LAGW for which the installation procedure can found on page Connect computers without internet access by using the Log Analytics gateway in Azure Monitor) you can go ahead with the ILB configuration.
NOTE: the LAGW configuration (TCP port to be used for the gateway, proxy address and user for the company proxy the LAGW needs to communicate through) should be the same
First thing first, you need to create an ILB instance and configure the necessary settings.
NOTE: Choosing a Static IP address, will require less changes on the agent configuration later on, making it also easier to associate a DNS Record to it so you can use the FQDN during agents configuration.
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Hope that this post will make Log Analytics Gateway High Availability configuration smooth and easier.
Thanks,
Bruno Gabrielli
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