Can't trigger autoscaling from availability test in Azure

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Situation

I have a simple availability test that just consists to call my home url every 5 minutes This works fine.

I want to trigger autoscaling depending on the time this ping takes to respond.

What I did

So, for testing purpose, I completed the controller code by:


Thread.Sleep(2000)

Then in Monitor/Autoscale I created a rule for my service plan resource

I only build a scale out rule configured like:

  • Resource type: availability test
  • resource: my test name
  • metric name: Response time
  • time agregation: average
  • duration: 5
  • time grain: 5 minutes
  • time grain statistic: average
  • operator >=
  • threshold: 1
  • operation: increase count by
  • increase count: 3
  • cool down: 5

My problem

I am not sure about the unit of the theshold. But even if it is min it should trigger an autoscalling. But I have never seen any scaling.

My questions

What might be wrong in my configuration? I tested that autoscaling works fine if I monitor by number of request on my web site.

Thank you

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1 Answers

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I found the solution:

metric source: other resource

resource type: application insights

resource: name of the instance of app insights owning the availability test

metric namespace: standard metric (preview)

metric name: availability test duration

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