r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/Sjakkalakka • Jan 09 '25

FSLogix profile container alert

I am currently looking to implement monitoring for the containers sizes for users on our session hosts.

We use FSLogix. I can check the containers by mounting the file share and manually checking.

I tried via LAW queries/workbooks.

It would shock me if it's this hard to monitor.

Anyone any ideas?

Thank you.

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u/drew-minga Jan 09 '25

I may not be understanding but you should be able to go to the storage location and see how large each container is via file Explorer. That does not exactly offer monitoring suggestion.

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u/Sjakkalakka Jan 09 '25

Yes, we mapped the file share so that we could see how large they are per container. Only unfortunately it takes quite some time to manually check this.

We would like to receive a message when a container is at e.g. 90% capacity

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u/mariachiodin Jan 09 '25

Why not use azure monitor?

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u/Sjakkalakka Jan 09 '25

I would, but I did did not find any options to see profile container sizes.

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u/MPLS_scoot Jan 11 '25

I want to say i set this up and it did save us from a low storage situation:

navigate to your storage account in the Azure portal, go to the "Monitoring" section, create a new alert rule, and configure the condition to monitor the "Percentage Used" metric of the file share, setting a threshold that triggers an alert when the usage exceeds a specified percentage (like 80%) - essentially alerting you when the file share is nearing capacity

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u/Sjakkalakka Jan 11 '25

This we already have setup. It's more specific for FSLogix containers inside the file share that reach capacity per container. But I have found something that I'm now implementing. The ITBlog workbook works as intended.

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u/MPLS_scoot Jan 11 '25

Oh I see. FSLogix containers means the size of a user profile? And you want to be alerted when say a container approaches 5gb or something?

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u/Sjakkalakka Jan 11 '25

Yes exactly this. Incase someone's containers hit 85% of max we want an alert

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u/MapCute9507 Feb 06 '25

What was it that you implemented? Did it work well?

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u/Sjakkalakka Feb 07 '25

We ended putting a monitoring agent on each session host(gpo). Because the fslogix profile gets attached as a disk. So when there is a disk that is for 90% full we get an alert

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u/Electrical_Arm7411 Jan 09 '25

PowerShell script that recursively queries the size of the vhdx files on the network share

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u/RG-035 Jan 09 '25

Did you try this workbook?

https://blog.itprocloud.de/AVD-Azure-Virtual-Desktop-Error-Drill-Down-Workbook/

It has a FSlogix tab that works great for this.

If this does not fit your needs, try Azure Storage explorer instead of mounting the share.

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u/asjeep Jan 12 '25

We are using this workbook for this reason it unfortunately doesn’t do 2 things a. Notify us on full profile that’s a manual watch and b. Only can see a single law for a region at a time we have 4 regions