Manage Monitoring of App Registrations in Azure

Manage monitoring and perform administrative remote actions on configured Azure App Registrations.

Get alerts before a Secret expires
Customizable Monitoring Thresholds

Nodinite make use of an App Registration to connect and authenticate with the Azure REST-Api. Please read more about this concept in the Azure Application Access user guide.

For your business and other end-users; Delegate the power to manage, and gain insights to selected App Registrations in Azure. Nodinite Monitoring aids the support and maintenance team's people in having additional data for root cause analysis without having individual direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. Reducing access limits the number of attack vectors, and having fewer people with fewer access rights minimizes the risk of disruption of mission-critical services.

Management Features

For Resources in the Role-based Monitor Views with the Remote Actions privilege grant; The following Remote Actions grouped by Category are available:

As an Administrator with access to the Configuration for Monitoring Agents, the additional Monitoring options are available:

Azure App Registration

Manage the set of monitored App Registrations from the App Registration Details page.

The 'Azure App Registration' Category provides one Resource for each configured App Registration to monitor with the specified display name as the Resource name.

Example from a Monitor View with a list of 'Azure App Registrations'.

See Monitoring App Registration for additional details about App Registration Monitoring.

The App Registration category provides Resources that display the evaluated monitored state according to built-in rules.

If the permission to perform Remote Action is granted; The following operations exist:

• Details

Details

Informations about the App Registration:

• Basic information
• Client Secrets
• Federated credentials
• Scopes
• Owners

To view the selected App Registration Resource and manage the set of monitored App Registration; Click the Action button and then click on the Details menu item within the 'Control Center' section.

Use the 'Details' action menu item to open the details modal for the selected App Registration.

Next, click the option to present the modal.

Basic information

Here's an example of the 'App Registration' details.

Client secrets

Here's an example of information about Client Secrets.

Federated credentials

Here's an example of information about Federated credentials.

Scopes

Here's an example of information about Scopes.

Owners

The App Registration in use must have the permission to read user profile to present information about Owners.

Here's an example of information about Owners.

Edit thresholds

Info

The settings are global, this means that regardless which App Registration you modify, the change affects all App Registrations.

You can Edit the monitoring thresholds, click on the Action button and then click on the Edit menu item within the 'Control Center' section.

Example: Edit thresholds Action button menu item.

Next, click the option to present the modal.

Here's an example of editing the monitoring thresholds for the selected 'App Registration'.

You can manage the following monitoring properties:

• Warning - Number of days before App Registrations expires to trigger the Warning alert
• Error- Number of days before App Registrations expires to trigger the Error alert
• Description - The user-friendly description of the App Registrations monitoring configuration

Click the Save button to persist changes.

Save button.

Next Step

Monitoring App Registration
Configuring the Nodinite Azure Monitoring agent

Related

Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
Prerequisites for Azure Agent