Azure Blob Storage Monitoring

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Bleemeo collects metrics for Azure Blob Storage accounts via Azure Monitor. Metrics are polled every hour.

Three Azure Monitor namespaces are involved, which matters if you cross-check a metric in the Azure Portal’s metric explorer:

Namespace	Metrics
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts	blob_storage_transactions, blob_storage_availability, blob_storage_capacity
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices	blob_storage_object_count
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/fileServices	blob_storage_file_count

Metrics

Metric	Description
blob_storage_transactions	Number of requests made to the storage account
blob_storage_availability	Percentage of successful requests to the storage account
blob_storage_capacity	Total storage used by the account's blob service, in bytes
blob_storage_object_count	Number of blobs stored in the account
blob_storage_file_count	Number of files stored in the account's Azure Files service

Note

None of these metrics report data for a period without matching activity (e.g. no request, or a capacity/count Azure hasn’t recomputed yet) — a gap on the graph does not mean monitoring stopped.

Permissions

Requires the Monitoring Reader role and the Microsoft.Insights resource provider registered on the subscription — see Permissions Summary.

Estimated Azure Cost

~$0.02/month per batch of up to 50 storage accounts in the same region (3 Azure Monitor API calls per hour: one for account-level metrics, one for Blob service metrics, one for File service metrics) — see Estimated Azure Costs.

See Also

• Configuration — set up Azure credentials and permissions