How to monitor a Windows Service on an Azure VM?

Question

I have a windows service running on a Azure VM availability set.

What is the best way to instrument monitoring for this service utilizing any of the Azure monitoring solutions?

Answer 1

If you just want to monitor if it's running or not, you can use Log Analytics. More details please refer to this article.

I have tested it at my side, it works well.

1.Create a workspace and Enable the Log Analytics VM Extension as per this doc.

2.Once step 1 is completed, nav to your workspace -> in the left panel, select Advanced settings -> Data -> Windows Event Logs, then in the textbox, type "system", then select system in the dropdown -> click the add button.

3.click Save button.

4.In the left panel, click Logs. Then in the query editor, type the following command(please note that the == is case sensitive):

Event
| where TimeGenerated >ago(1d)
| where EventLog  == "System" and EventID ==7036 and Source == "Service Control Manager" 
| parse kind=relaxed EventData with * '<Data Name="param1">' Windows_Service_Name '</Data><Data Name="param2">' Windows_Service_State '</Data>'*
//you can add a filter by service name here like    | where Windows_Service_Name =="Windows Update"
| sort by TimeGenerated desc
| project Computer, Windows_Service_Name, Windows_Service_State, TimeGenerated

5.The test result: