# Setup Azure Monitoring on Subscription Level – V11 Created by dan@djurasovic.com on 30 Dec 2021

JSON files need to be located in “C:\Azure-Enable-Monitoring-Script” folder

This script will perform the following task on the subscription level:

Connect-AzAccount

1 Create a new Resource Group called Monitoring

2 Create prerequisites

# 2-a Create Log Analytic Workspace called LogAnalyticWorkspace
# 2-b Create Storage Account

3 Configure the following settings in Log Analytical Space

# 3-a Enable IIS Log Collection using an agent
# 3-b Enable Linux Performance Counters
# 3-c Enable Linux Syslog Collection
# 3-d Enable Windows Event Collections
# 3-e Add Windows Performance Counters to the workspace
# 3-f Configure a Log Analytics workspace for VM insights
# 3-g Upgrade to a new solution for Azure Monitor for virtual machines
# 3-h Enable VM insights guest health (preview)

4 Setup Activity Log on Subscription to forward logs

# 4-a Setup Activity Log on Subscription to forwarding all events to Log Analytical Space

5 Assign Initiative to Enable Azure Monitor for VMs

# 5-a Assign Initiative (Enable Azure Monitor for VMs) to Resource Subscriptions
# 5-b Assign Managed Identity “Log Analytics Contributor” permission to subscription.

6 Azure Security Center

# 6-a On-board Azure Security Center for VM, AppServices and SQL Servers
# 6-b Enable auto-provisioning in the Security Center
# 6-c Configure Azure Security Center notifications

7 Create Monitor Action Group

8 Create the following Metric Monitor Alerts

# 8-a Create the Metric Monitor Alert for CPU High higher than 90
# 8-b Create the Monitor Alerts for OS Disk Queue Depth higher than 5
# 8-c Create the Metric Monitor Alerts for Data Disk Queue Depth higher than 5

9 Create Resource Health Alert

10 Create Administrative Log Alerts for the following actions

# 10-a Deleted Virtual Machine Event
# 10-b Deallocate Virtual Machine Event
# 10-c Started Virtual Machine Event
# 10-d Restarted Virtual Machine Event

11 Create Azure Service Health Alerts

# The following three files are used during configuration—————————————————————-
# – ConfigureWorkspaceTemplate.json
# – Health.DataCollectionRule.template.json
# – resourcehealthalert.json

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Mandatory Variable

Enter email address for action alert group

Get-AzSubscription | select name,id
$Subscriptionid=”5615d081-a433-484f-a4e2-c8e650ca8bdf”
$ActionGroupEmailAddress=”user@domain.com”
$AzureSecurityCenterContactEmail=”user@domain.com”
$AzureSecurityCenterContactName=”ITSEC”

Other Optional Variables

$Location=”CanadaCentral”
$ResourceGroup=”Monitoring”
$WorkspaceName=”LogAnalyticWorkspace”
$DiagnosticSettingName = ‘Send Logs to LogAnalytical Workspace’
$ActionGroupName=”ActionGroup”
$FilePath=”C:\Azure-Enable-Monitoring-Script”

$AzureSecurityCenterContactName=”ITSEC”
$AzureSecurityCenterContactEmail=”user@domain.com”

0 SetUp Subscription Context

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Set-AzContext -Subscription $SubscriptionId
$SubscriptionName=Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId $Subscriptionid | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name

1 Create a new Resource Group

Write-host -ForegroundColor Green 1 Create a new Resource Group
New-AzResourceGroup -Name $ResourceGroup -Location $Location

2-a Create Log Analytic Workspace called LogAnalyticWorkspace

Write-host -ForegroundColor Green 2a Create Log Analytic Workspace called LogAnalyticWorkspace
New-AzOperationalInsightsWorkspace -Location $Location -Name $WorkspaceName -Sku Standard -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup

Get Log Analytic WorkSpace ID

$Workspace=Get-AzOperationalInsightsWorkspace -Name $WorkspaceName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup
$WorkspaceId=$workspace.ResourceId

2-b Create Storage Account

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$RandomNumber= Get-Random
$StorageAccountNameInitial = “monitorstorage” + $RandomNumber
$STORAGE_ACCOUNT = Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup | Where-Object {$_.StorageAccountName -like “monitorstorage*”} -ErrorAction Ignore

if ($STORAGE_ACCOUNT -eq $null) {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green ‘2-b Creating storage account’ $StorageAccountNameInitial
New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -AccountName $StorageAccountNameInitial -Location $Location -SkuName Standard_LRS -Kind StorageV2 -AccessTier Hot
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “$StorageAccountNameInitial storage account successfully created.”
}
else {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green ‘Storage account already exists, script is continuing.’
}

$StorageAccount=Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup | Where-Object {$_.StorageAccountName -like “monitorstorage*”}
$StorageAccountID=$StorageAccount.id
$StorageAccountName=$StorageAccount.StorageAccountName

3 Configure the following settings in Log AnalyticalSpace

3-a Enable IIS Log Collection using an agent

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Enable-AzOperationalInsightsIISLogCollection -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName

3-b Enable Linux Performance Counters

Write-host -ForegroundColor Green 3-b Enable Linux Performance Counters
New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxPerformanceObjectDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -ObjectName “Logical Disk” -InstanceName “” -CounterNames @(“% Used Inodes”, “Free Megabytes”, “Disk Transfers/sec”, “Disk Reads/sec”, “Disk Writes/sec”, “% Free Space” ) -IntervalSeconds 60 -Name “Linux Disk Performance Counters” -Force New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxPerformanceObjectDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -ObjectName “Processor” -InstanceName “” -CounterNames “% Processor Time” -IntervalSeconds 60 -Name “Processor Time” -Force
New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxPerformanceObjectDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -ObjectName “Memory” -InstanceName “” -CounterNames “% Available Memory” -IntervalSeconds 60 -Name “Percent Available Memory” -Force New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxPerformanceObjectDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -ObjectName “System” -InstanceName “” -CounterNames “Uptime” -IntervalSeconds 3600 -Name “uptime” -Force
Enable-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxPerformanceCollection -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName

3-c Enable Linux Syslog Collection

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New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxSyslogDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -Facility “kern” -CollectEmergency -CollectAlert -CollectCritical -CollectError -CollectWarning -Name “kernel syslog collection” -force
New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxSyslogDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -Facility “auth” -CollectEmergency -CollectAlert -CollectCritical -CollectError -CollectWarning -Name “auth syslog collection” -Force
New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxSyslogDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -Facility “daemon” -CollectEmergency -CollectAlert -CollectCritical -CollectError -CollectWarning -Name “daemon syslog collection” -Force
New-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxSyslogDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -Facility “syslog” -CollectEmergency -CollectAlert -CollectCritical -CollectError -CollectWarning -Name “syslog syslog collection” -Force
Enable-AzOperationalInsightsLinuxSyslogCollection -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName

3-d Enable Windows Event Collections

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New-AzOperationalInsightsWindowsEventDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -EventLogName “Application” -CollectErrors -CollectWarnings -Name “Application Event Log” -force
New-AzOperationalInsightsWindowsEventDataSource -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -EventLogName “System” -CollectErrors -CollectWarnings -Name “System Event Log” -force

3-e Add Windows Performance Counters to the workspace

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$perfCounters = ‘LogicalDisk()\% Free Space’, ‘LogicalDisk()\Disk Reads/sec’,
‘LogicalDisk()\Disk Transfers/sec’, ‘LogicalDisk()\Disk Writes/sec’,
‘LogicalDisk()\Free Megabytes’, ‘Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time’, ‘Network Adapter()\Bytes Received/sec’,
‘Network Adapter(*)\Bytes Sent/sec’

foreach ($perfCounter in $perfCounters) {
$perfArray = $perfCounter.split(“\”).split(“(“).split(“)”)
$objectName = $perfArray[0]
$instanceName = $perfArray[1]
$counterName = $perfArray[3]
$name = (“$objectName-$counterName”) -replace “/”, “Per” -replace “%”, “Percent”
write-output $name
New-AzOperationalInsightsWindowsPerformanceCounterDataSource -ErrorAction Continue -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -ObjectName $objectName -InstanceName $instanceName -CounterName $counterName
-IntervalSeconds 60 -Name $name -Force

}

3-f Configure a Log Analytics workspace for VM insights

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New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -Name ConfigureWorkspace -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -TemplateFile “$FilePath\ConfigureWorkspaceTemplate.json” -workspaceResourceId $WorkspaceId -WorkspaceLocation $location

3-g Upgrade to a new solution for Azure Monitor for virtual machines

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Set-AzOperationalInsightsIntelligencePack -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WorkspaceName $WorkspaceName -IntelligencePackName “VMInsights” -Enabled $True

3-h Enable VM insights guest health

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New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -Name GuestHealthDataCollectionRule -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -TemplateFile “$FilePath\Health.DataCollectionRule.template.json” -destinationWorkspaceResourceId $WorkspaceId -dataCollectionRuleLocation $Location

4 Setup Activity Log on Subscription to forward logs

4-a Setup Activity Log on Subscription to forwarding all events to Log Analytical Space

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$list = @()
Get-AzSubscriptionDiagnosticSettingCategory | ForEach-Object {
$list += (New-AzDiagnosticDetailSetting -Log -Category $_.Name -Enabled)
}
$setting = New-AzDiagnosticSetting -Name $DiagnosticSettingName -SubscriptionId $SubscriptionId -WorkspaceId $Workspace.resourceid -Setting $list
Set-AzDiagnosticSetting -InputObject $setting

5 Assign Initiative to Enable Azure Monitor for VMs

5-a Assign Initiative (Enable Azure Monitor for VMs) to Resource Subscriptions

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$PolicyAssignmentName=”Enable Azure Monitor for VMs”
$Policy = Get-AzPolicysetDefinition -Builtin | Where-Object {$_.Properties.DisplayName -eq “Enable Azure Monitor for VMs”}
$Parameter = @{‘logAnalytics_1’=($Workspace.ResourceId)}
New-AzPolicyAssignment -Name $PolicyAssignmentName -PolicySetDefinition $Policy -Scope “/subscriptions/$SubscriptionId” -PolicyParameterObject $Parameter -Location $location -AssignIdentity

5-b Assign Managed Identity “Log Analytics Contributor” permission to subscription.

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Suspend Script for 90 sec

Write-host -ForegroundColor Green Suspend Script for 30 sec

for($i = 0; $i -le 100; $i++)
{
Write-Progress -Activity “Activity” -PercentComplete $i -Status “Waiting 30 sec for Configuration to propagate to Azure BackEnd”;
Sleep -Milliseconds 300;
}

$PolicyAssignment=Get-AzPolicyAssignment -Name $PolicyAssignmentName -Scope “/subscriptions/$SubscriptionId”
$objectID = GUID
New-AzRoleAssignment -Scope “/subscriptions/$SubscriptionId” -ObjectId $objectID -RoleDefinitionName “Log Analytics Contributor”

6 Microsoft Defender for Cloud

6-a On-board Microsoft Defender for Cloud for VM, AppServices and SQL Servers

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Register-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace ‘Microsoft.Security’
Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name “VirtualMachines” -PricingTier “Standard”
Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name “AppServices” -PricingTier “Standard”
Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name “SqlServers” -PricingTier “Standard”

6-b Enable auto-provisioning in the Security Center

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Set-AzSecurityAutoProvisioningSetting -Name “default” -EnableAutoProvision

6-c Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud notifications

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Set-AzSecurityContact -Name $AzureSecurityCenterContactName -Email $AzureSecurityCenterContactEmail -AlertAdmin -NotifyOnAlert

7 Create Monitor Action Group

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$EmailReceiver = New-AzActionGroupReceiver -Name $ActionGroupName -EmailReceiver -EmailAddress $ActionGroupEmailAddress
Set-AzActionGroup -Name $ActionGroupName -ResourceGroupName “$ResourceGroup” -ShortName $ActionGroupName -Receiver $EmailReceiver
$ActionGroupID=Get-AzActionGroup -name $ActionGroupName -ResourceGroupName “$ResourceGroup” | select Id
$ActionGroup=Get-AzActionGroup -name $ActionGroupName -ResourceGroupName “$ResourceGroup”

8 Create the following Metric Monitor Alerts

8-a Create the Metric Monitor Alert for CPU High higher than 90

Write-host -ForegroundColor Green 8-a Create the Metric Monitor Alert for CPU High higher than 90
$actionGroup = Get-AzActionGroup -Name $ActionGroupName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup
$actionGroupId = New-AzActionGroup -ActionGroupId $actionGroup.Id
$windowSize = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1
$frequency = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1
$condition = New-AzMetricAlertRuleV2Criteria -MetricName “Percentage CPU” -TimeAggregation Average -Operator GreaterThan -Threshold 90
$context = Get-AzContext
$Description = “This is alerts which is triggered when CPU on VM has high utilization.”
Add-AzMetricAlertRuleV2 -Name “CPU Utilization Alert” -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WindowSize $windowSize -Frequency $frequency -TargetResourceScope “/subscriptions/$Subscriptionid” -TargetResourceType “Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines” -TargetResourceRegion $Location -Description $Description -Condition $condition -Severity 3 -ActionGroup $actionGroupId

8-b Create the Monitor Alerts for OS Disk Queue Depth higher than 5

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$actionGroup = Get-AzActionGroup -Name $ActionGroupName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup
$actionGroupId = New-AzActionGroup -ActionGroupId $actionGroup.Id
$windowSize = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1
$frequency = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1
$condition = New-AzMetricAlertRuleV2Criteria -MetricName “OS Disk Queue Depth” -TimeAggregation Maximum -Operator GreaterThan -Threshold 5
$context = Get-AzContext
$Description = “This is alerts which is triggered when OS Disk Queue Depth on VM has high utilization.”
Add-AzMetricAlertRuleV2 -Name “OS Disk Queue Depth Alert” -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WindowSize $windowSize -Frequency $frequency -TargetResourceScope “/subscriptions/$Subscriptionid” -TargetResourceType “Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines” -TargetResourceRegion $Location -Description $Description -Condition $condition -Severity 3 -ActionGroup $actionGroupId

8-c Create the Metric Monitor Alerts for Data Disk Queue Depth higher than 5

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$actionGroup = Get-AzActionGroup -Name $ActionGroupName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup
$actionGroupId = New-AzActionGroup -ActionGroupId $actionGroup.Id
$windowSize = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1
$frequency = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1
$condition = New-AzMetricAlertRuleV2Criteria -MetricName “Data Disk Queue Depth” -TimeAggregation Maximum -Operator GreaterThan -Threshold 5
$context = Get-AzContext
$Description = “This is alerts which is triggered when Data Disk Queue Depth on VM has high utilization.”
Add-AzMetricAlertRuleV2 -Name “Data Disk Queue Depth Alert” -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -WindowSize $windowSize -Frequency $frequency -TargetResourceScope “/subscriptions/$Subscriptionid” -TargetResourceType “Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines” -TargetResourceRegion $Location -Description $Description -Condition $condition -Severity 3 -ActionGroup $actionGroupId

 

9 Create Resource Health Alert

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$Name=”Resource Health Alert”
New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -Name ResourceHealthAlertDeployment -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -activityLogAlertName $Name -actionGroupResourceId $ActionGroup.id -TemplateFile “$FilePath\resourcehealthalert.json”

10 Create Administrative Log Alerts for the following actions

Write-host -ForegroundColor Green 10-a Deleted Virtual Machine Event
$condition1 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘category’ -Equal ‘Administrative’
$condition2 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘operationName’ -Equal ‘Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/delete’
Set-AzActivityLogAlert -Location “Global” -Name “Deleted Virtual Machine Event” -ResourceGroupName $resourcegroup -Scope “/subscriptions/$SubscriptionId” -Action $ActionGroupID -Condition $condition1,$condition2

10-b Deallocate Virtual Machine Event

Write-host -ForegroundColor Green 10-b Deallocate Virtual Machine Event
$condition1 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘category’ -Equal ‘Administrative’
$condition2 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘operationName’ -Equal ‘Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/deallocate/action’
Set-AzActivityLogAlert -Location “Global” -Name “Deallocate Virtual Machine Event” -ResourceGroupName $resourcegroup -Scope “/subscriptions/$SubscriptionId” -Action $ActionGroupID -Condition $condition1,$condition2

10-c Started Virtual Machine Event

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$condition1 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘category’ -Equal ‘Administrative’
$condition2 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘operationName’ -Equal ‘Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/start/action’
Set-AzActivityLogAlert -Location “Global” -Name “Started Virtual Machine Event” -ResourceGroupName $resourcegroup -Scope “/subscriptions/$SubscriptionId” -Action $ActionGroupID -Condition $condition1,$condition2

10-d Restarted Virtual Machine Event

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$condition1 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘category’ -Equal ‘Administrative’
$condition2 = New-AzActivityLogAlertCondition -Field ‘operationName’ -Equal ‘Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/restart/action’
Set-AzActivityLogAlert -Location “Global” -Name “Restared Virtual Machine Event” -ResourceGroupName $resourcegroup -Scope “/subscriptions/$SubscriptionId” -Action $ActionGroupID -Condition $condition1,$condition2

11 Create Azure Service Health Alerts

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$ServiceHealthRegions = @(
“Canada Central”,
“Canada East”
“Global”
)

$ServiceHealthServices = @(
“Action Groups”,
“Activity Logs & Alerts”,
“Alerts & Metrics”,
“Alerts”,
“Application Insights”,
“Azure Active Directory”,
“Virtual Machines”,
“Virtual Network”,
“Storage”,
“Microsoft Azure Portal”,
“App Service”,
“Backup”,
“Azure Active Directory Domain Services”
)

$ServiceHealthServices = @(
“Select all”
)

$actiongroup = Get-AzActionGroup -Name $ActionGroupName -ResourceGroup “$ResourceGroup” -WarningAction Ignore

$params = @{
LogAlertName = “Service Health Alerts 2”
ServiceHealthRegions = $ServiceHealthRegions
ServiceHealthServices = $ServiceHealthServices
actiongroupresourceid = $actiongroup.id

}

New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -Name “ServiceHealthAlerts” -ResourceGroupName “$ResourceGroup” -TemplateFile “C:\Azure-Enable-Monitoring-Script\ServiceHealthAlert.json” -TemplateParameterObject $params

The end of the script

Write-host -ForegroundColor green All Configuration has been applied.