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Kehinde Oloye
Kehinde Oloye

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Steps to monitor Azure Virtual Machine on Mobile

It's exciting to share with you that Azure has a Mobile App Service that can bring you up to speed any time anywhere.

Azure Mobile App Service is used to rapidly build engaging cross-platform and native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, or Mac; store app data in the cloud or on-premises; authenticate customers; send push notifications; or add your custom back-end logic in C# or Node.

To get the Azure mobile app you can download from IoS or the Google Play Store. Alternatively, you can scan and download from the Azure resource interface.

The focus of this blog is to give a guideline on the usage of this Mobile

On the resource page on Azure, look out for "open in mobile" and click.

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Scan the QR Code, download and install the app.

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Log into the mobile app with your azure details. You will be able to see your VM and monitor it.

Go to Subscription to check if it is still active.

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Click on subscription to view your Cost Management

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Click on Cost management for more detail.

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Under recent resource, click on an existing virtual machine you spined up earlier.

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Scroll down to view more information like power state, provisioning state, resource health, Azure subscription, resource group, VM location, computer name, operating system, VM size, public IP address etc. You can also start and stop your VM.

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Go to Metric and you can monitor the CPU usage, network and disk.

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Thank you for reading my article till the end. I hope you learned something special today. If you enjoyed this article, then please share to your friends and if you have suggestions or thoughts to share with me then please write in the comment box.

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