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Monitoring ExpressRoute data reference

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This article provides a reference of log and metric data collected to analyze the performance and availability of ExpressRoute. See Monitoring ExpressRoute for details on collecting and analyzing monitoring data for ExpressRoute.

Metrics

This section lists all the automatically collected platform metrics for ExpressRoute. For more information, see a list of all platform metrics supported in Azure Monitor.

Metric Type Resource Provider / Type Namespace
and link to individual metrics
ExpressRoute circuit Microsoft.Network/expressRouteCircuits
ExpressRoute circuit peering Microsoft.Network/expressRouteCircuits/peerings
ExpressRoute Gateways Microsoft.Network/expressRouteGateways
ExpressRoute Direct Microsoft.Network/expressRoutePorts

Note

Using GlobalGlobalReachBitsInPerSecond and GlobalGlobalReachBitsOutPerSecond will only be visible if at least one Global Reach connection is established.

Metric dimensions

For more information on what metric dimensions are, see Multi-dimensional metrics.

ExpressRoute has the following dimensions associated with its metrics.

Dimension for ExpressRoute circuit

Dimension Name Description
PeeringType The type of peering configured. The supported values are Microsoft and Private peering.
Peering The supported values are Primary and Secondary.
PeeredCircuitSkey The remote ExpressRoute circuit service key connected using Global Reach.

Dimension for ExpressRoute gateway

Dimension Name Description
roleInstance The gateway instance. Each ExpressRoute gateway is comprised of multiple instances, and the supported values are GatewayTenantWork_IN_X (where X is a minimum of 0 and a maximum of the number of gateway instances -1).

Dimension for Express Direct

Dimension Name Description
Link The physical link. Each ExpressRoute Direct port pair is comprised of two physical links for redundancy, and the supported values are link1 and link2.

Resource logs

This section lists the types of resource logs you can collect for ExpressRoute.

Resource Log Type Resource Provider / Type Namespace
and link to individual metrics
ExpressRoute Circuit Microsoft.Network/expressRouteCircuits

For reference, see a list of all resource logs category types supported in Azure Monitor.

Azure Monitor Logs tables

Azure ExpressRoute uses Kusto tables from Azure Monitor Logs. You can query these tables with Log analytics. For a reference of all Azure Monitor Logs / Log Analytics tables, see the Azure Monitor Log Table Reference.

Activity log

The following table lists the operations related to ExpressRoute that may be created in the Activity log.

Operation Description
All Administrative operations All administrative operations including create, update and delete of an ExpressRoute circuit.
Create or update ExpressRoute circuit An ExpressRoute circuit was created or updated.
Deletes ExpressRoute circuit An ExpressRoute circuit was deleted.

For more information on the schema of Activity Log entries, see Activity Log schema.

Schemas

For detailed description of the top-level diagnostic logs schema, see Supported services, schemas, and categories for Azure Diagnostic Logs.

When reviewing any metrics through Log Analytics, the output will contain the following columns:

Column Type Description
TimeGrain string PT1M (metric values are pushed every minute)
Count real Usually equal to 2 (each MSEE pushes a single metric value every minute)
Minimum real The minimum of the two metric values pushed by the two MSEEs
Maximum real The maximum of the two metric values pushed by the two MSEEs
Average real Equal to (Minimum + Maximum)/2
Total real Sum of the two metric values from both MSEEs (the main value to focus on for the metric queried)

See also