Monitoring Key Vaults in Azure
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This page provides documentation about the Key Vault Monitoring options using Nodinite from one or more role-based Monitor Views. Nodinite monitors the age of Keys and Secrets in one or more Key Vaults. You can manage the monitoring thresholds for the Key Vault; Remote commands are available as Actions to help you swiftly address reported problems. The Remote Actions are detailed on the Managing Key Vault page.
Example list of monitored Key Vaults in a Nodinite Monitor View.
Monitoring Features
- State Evaluation - Provide state evaluation according to pre-defined policy.
If Nodinite can't check your Key Vault items' state, chances are no one else can use them either.
- Automatic Discovery of Key Vaults.
- The Nodinite Azure Agent makes use of the Azure Rest API. Hence, Key Vaults presents automatically.
- Category-based monitoring - The monitored Resources groups by the Nodinite concept of Categories.
- Share access to individual items from within Nodinite using one or more role-based Monitor Views.
State evaluation for Key Vaults
The Key Vaults to monitor manifests within Nodinite as one or more Resources. For example, if you have three Key Vaults, you will have three Resources in Nodinite.
- The Nodinite Resources name is the same as the deployed Key Vault name.
- Monitored Key Vaults belong to 'Key Vault' Category:
Many other Azure related Categories exists as well, please review the Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
- The Application name is created with the following pattern:
Configuration name/Resource Group Name
Each item (presented in Nodinite as a Resource) evaluates with a state (i.e. OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable).
You can override the evaluation process by configuring the Expected State option available for all Nodinite Resources.
Key Vault
For Key Vault Resources, the state evaluates as described in the table below:
| State | Status | Description | Actions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unavailable | Resource not available |
|
Review prerequisites | |
| Error | Error threshold is breached | One or more Secrets or Keys is about to expire, or is expired | Edit | |
| Warning | Warning threshold is breached | One or more Secrets or Keys is about to expire, or is expired | Edit | |
| OK | Within user-defined thresholds | Details |
Alert history for Key Vault
During root cause analysis or other purposes, it might be helpful to understand how often your Key Vault problems happen. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for the provided time-span either for all your Key Vault or individually. This topic is further detailed within the generic instructions on how to Add or manage Monitor View page.
| Search | Resource history |
|---|---|
 Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View |
 Alert history for the selected Key Vault item |
Frequently asked questions
Use the troubleshooting guide to find the FAQ and answers to known problems.