Manage Azure Service Bus Topic Resources
Manage monitoring thresholds and perform administrative remote actions on Microsoft Azure Service Bus topics and services for configured subscriptions.
This agent among many other queue services allows you to monitor Microsoft Azure Service Bus Topics and related Subscriptions.
Delegate the power to control all or individual Service Bus Topic resources to selected team members and the business. This feature helps the people involved in the support and maintenance team have the power to manage problems with your Service Bus Topics and services without having individual direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. Limiting the number of attack vectors, and having fewer people with high access rights minimizes the risk of disruption of mission-critical services.
Stockpiling messages is terrible for your business. So we developed this Monitoring Agent to give end-users the power to get alerts and manage content to keep the system healthy.
| Application Management Team | IT Operations | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Let your AM team resolve problems with content on Azure Service Bus Topics | Stay in complete control, end to end, with access to everything | Give your business self-service control for Servicebus topic resources |
Remember: Avoid the blame game, all sensitive operations are Audit Logged.
Features
From Monitor Views with Service Bus Topic and Subscription Resources; The Message Queueing Monitoring Agent features the following Remote Actions:
| Topics | Subscriptions |
|---|---|
| Edit thresholds | N/A |
| Details | Details |
| Enable | Enable |
| Disable | Disable |
All these options can also be managed from within the global Configuration
As an Administrator with access to Monitoring Agents from the Remote Administration dialogue, you can further manage:
- Add and Remove Azure subscriptions (with Topics and Subscriptions)
- Add and Remove Resource groups within each subscription
- Enable and Disable Monitoring
- Manage thresholds - Global and specific
- Filter - Remove Topics that you do not wish to monitor using regular expressions (RegEx)
Please review the global Configuration for additional details about how to configure Nodinite and the Message Queueing Monitoring Agent
Service Bus Topic
A User with access rights to a Monitor Views with the Resources of the Category 'Service Bus Topic' where Remote Actions are allowed can perform the Actions documented next.
| Actions | Action button |
|---|---|
 Menu items |
Edit thresholds
The monitoring is based on thresholds. You can manage the following properties:
- Description
- Allowed timespan
- Warning
- Error
- Message count, either None or a fixed value
- Warning
- Error
Manageable thresholds for selected Topic
If you see the following warning message it means that this topic is using global thresholds. When you click on the Save button you will start to use specific thresholds instead.
If you see this alert then the current configuration is global
Description
You can manage the Description field for the Nodinite Resource. This option provides you a way to add a "comment" for the specific topic.
Timespan evaluation
- Allowed timespan - manage threshold for the maximum allowed age for first message on the specific topic
| State | Name | Data Type | Value Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warning TimeSpan | Timespan | 00:05:00 (5 minutes) | The age of first message on the topic subscription to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error TimeSpan | Timespan | 01:10:00 (1 hour 10 minutes) | The age of first message on the topic to trigger Error alert |
Number evaluation
- Count Evaluation Type
- None - Topic subscriptions are not evaluated based on any of the number based options
- Fixed - Monitor on fixed numbers
Options for monitoring of topic based on numbers.
None
With the None option no monitoring on numbers will be performed.
Fixed
With the Fixed option monitoring is based on "fixed" numbers.
| State | Name | Data Type | Value Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warning Count | integer | >=0 | The number of messages to go above on the topic to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error Count | integer | >=0 | The number of messages to go above on the topic to trigger Error alert |
Service Bus Topic Details
Select Topic Details to open a modal with information about the Service Bus:
Example with basic information about the selected Topic.
Subscriptions
You can further expand with more information about Subscriptions by expanding the accordion:
List of Subscriptions.
Properties
You can further expand with more information about Properties by expanding the accordion:
List of additional properties
Thresholds
You can further expand with more information about Thresholds by expanding the accordion:
Read-only view of the current thresholds for selected topic.
Enable Topic
If you click on the 'Enable' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information
Disable topic
If you click on the 'Disable' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information
Azure Service Bus Topic Subscription
A User with access rights to a Monitor Views with the Resources of the Category 'Service Bus Topic Subscription' where Remote Actions are allowed can perform the Actions documented next.
| Actions | Action button |
|---|---|
 Menu items |
Service Bus Topic Subscription Details
Subscription rules
You can further expand with more information about Subscription rules by expanding the accordion:
List of Subscriptions
Properties
You can further expand with more information about Properties by expanding the accordion:
List of additional properties
Thresholds
You can further expand with more information about Thresholds by expanding the accordion:
Read-only view of the current thresholds for selected topic
Enable Subscription
If you click on the 'Enable' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information
Disable Subscription
If you click on the 'Disable' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information
Next Step
Configure the Nodinite Message Queueing Monitoring Agent