Suggestions to monitor webjobs

Question

Hello guys,

I would want to monitor some webjobs in Azure but I cannot use Application Insights because the test locations (like US East or US central) are blocked by my clients firewalls.

Does it exist another possibility in application insights or azure monitoring?

I'm not expert in powershell scripts. Do you have some suggestions?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Hello @Luc Messier
You can monitor Web Jobs using 3rd party tool like CloudMonix or App Insights Web Tests(it is a part of Azure Monitor).
Here is a list of IP addresses that are used by Azure Monitor(Needs to be whitelisted in firewall)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/ip-addresses

With App Insights Web Tests you need Kudu Web Jobs API to get the current status of the web job, e.g.
For triggered web jobs: https://{webapp-name}.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/triggeredwebjobs/{webjob-name}/
For continuous web jobs: https://{webapp-name}.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/continuousjobs/{webjob-name}/

Call the Kudu API from your App Insights Web Tests. You can configure your web tests to include the required Authorization header and to validate the JSON response. You can do this by adding multi-steps web tests.

Multi-steps web tests can be created using Visual Studio Enterprise or Ultimate, or by editing the web test xml definition directly.
https://blog.kloud.com.au/2016/08/11/monitoring-azure-web-jobs-health-with-application-insights/

You may use Azure tags in Azure Web App IP restrictions to whitelist Azure Monitor.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-service-ip-restrictions#set-a-service-tag-based-rule

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31798640/monitoring-azure-webjobs