AzureWatch's email provider (Amazon SES) has without warning suspended our account. At this time, AzureWatch is not sending any emails out. Portal, monitoring, auto-scaling, and other automation services continue to run.
CloudMonix email services were also impacted but have now been restored due to less complexity involved.
UPDATE: On 2015/09/20 - email services were restored approximately 24hrs after initial outage.
AzureWatch experienced an outage with its Portal/Website. Monitoring/auto-scaling services were not impacted. Outage lasted for approximately 6hrs
Bugs Fixed
Moderate - Diagnostics Extensions for Cloud Services deployed with SDK v2.5+ and with a period "." in their Role names should now properly be enabled for Diagnostics
Moderate - New Static IP implemented for monitoring services. Learn more here.
Outages:
- Major: AzureWatch alongside Azure has suffered a major outage that lasted for approximately 1.5hrs (from 6:48pm to 8:23pm, Central time, 11/18/2014). Outage was related to general network timeouts within Azure data centers and prevented AzureWatch properly performing monitoring.
New Features:
- Moderate: API integration is now available
Bug fixes:
- Minor: Emails generated by the portal (Monitoring Stopped/Started and Password Resets) are now working again
Issues Resolved:
- Minor: link to view and submit support tickets is now working again
Issues Resolved:
- Moderate: monitoring of certain customer accounts was occasionally delayed due to various stabillity issues.
- Moderate: querying for performance counters of Virtual Machines not enabled for monitoring should no longer be happening
Bugs Fixed:
- Moderate: when monitoring storage accounts from multiple subscriptions, AzureWatch would intermittently not be able to monitor storage accounts from all subscriptions properly
- Moderate: AzureWatch will now only wait up to 10 seconds for virtual machines to respond to powershell commands to retrieve data
Bugs Fixed:
- Moderate: it is now again possible change selection of which Event Logs will be tracked by AzureWatch
- Moderate: it is now possible to delete any existing aggregate metrics
Bugs Fixed:
- Moderate: Certain monitoring rules created by the Setup Wizard defaulted to name 'ruleName'. This has been fixed and existing rules have been changed retroactively.
Bugs Fixed:
- Moderate: It is now again possible to add/edit Aggregate Metric definitions for Azure Websites metrics
Bugs Fixed:
- Moderate: AzureWatch will now send Outage Resolved (UP) alerts again.
Bugs Fixed:
- Moderate: Screens showing charts have been fixed in Mobile site and on the Android application
Bug Fixes:
- Minor: The resulting PDF from an export a historical report is no longer broken into multiple pages in width
New Features:
- Major: Upgrades across all internal frameworks, improved caching
- Major: Setup Wizard now supports a number of server-based templates for pre-creating a vast amount of rules and metrics
- Moderate: Ability to manage individual instances from the dashboard (Start/Stop/Reboot/Reimage)
- Moderate: Ability to monitor and auto-scale by Service Bus Topic Subscriptions
New Features:
- No customer impact expected
- Major: Upgrades across all internal frameworks, improved caching
- Minor: Enabling support for Service Bus Subscription monitoring
New Features:
- Minor: Adding of aggregate metrics no longer shows legacy Red/Green/Orange textbox with thresholds
- Minor: Better messaging about adding of custom performance counters during setup of aggregate counters
New Features:
- Moderate: New, improved and better looking setup wizard
- Minor: Dashboard improvements include tooltips with name of the metric on Activity view, number of units on the dashlet, and ability to see alerts and scale-actions for dashlets that have no metric charts
Bugs resolved:
- Minor: RSS feed updates now only display the latest set of metrics.
Bugs resolved:
- Minor: Better messaging around failures to validate the download of metrics from Virtual Machines
New Features:
- Minor: Better help screens for the Dashboard, Historical Reports and Cloud Services configuration
Bugs resolved:
- Major: All customers received incomplete daily charts. The issue has been resolved and updated emails sent out.
Bugs resolved:
- Moderate: Customers should no longer be charged for monitoring of Stopped and Deallocated virtual machines
- Moderate: Issue fixed for certain customers whose processing of metrics for Availability Sets was not working
- Minor: Customers should no longer receive Successfull Range Change scaling emails for stand-alone virtual machines. Instance ranges do not apply to virtual machines
Bugs resolved:
- Minor: A hotfix has been deployed that minimizes monitoring outage timeouts as experienced by certain customers
New Features:
- Major: The new dashboard has been promoted to "Live" mode. Legacy dashboard is still available
- Moderate: A quick status bar has been added to new dashboard to quickly show users all of the events that have happened in the last 1hr
New Features:
- Major: New dashboard has been released in "Preview" mode
New Features:
- Moderate: Data storage has been restructured in support of newly redesigned and soon to be released dashboard
Production Issue:
- Severe: We're experiencing connectivity issues to our back-end databases hosted in SQL Azure. At this time monitoring and access to AzureWatch management portal are impacted. We apologize for this issue and have contacted Microsoft regarding resolution.
- Outage duration: ~1hr
New Features:
- Moderate: font size automatically adjusts with the size of the browser
- Minor: SQL Azure databases are auto-populated during detection of Azure resources. Password must still be provided by the user