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Office 365 - Exchange Online Monitoring
Microsoft Exchange Server is a Mail and Calendar server by Microsoft, traditionally run on a local hosting server. Office 365 includes 'Exchange Online', a full-featured cloud-hosted version of Exchange.
What You Can Monitor
This Opspack allows you to monitor your Office 365 Subscription's Exchange Online service, providing information on the service status and storage usage of the system as well as statistics on the user base such as the versions of Outlook being used and daily email monitoring read/send/received statistics.
We recommend adding the "Application - Office365" - Overview Host Template to your Host when using this template to give you a better overview of your Office 365 subscription.
Service Checks
Host Template | Service Check | Description |
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Application - Office365 - Exchange | Office365 - Exchange - Service Status | The service status of Exchange and any reported issues |
Application - Office365 - Exchange | Office365 - Exchange - Storage Usage | The storage usage of the subscription's cloud Exchange server |
Application - Office365 - Exchange | Office365 - Exchange - Email Activity | The emails sent, received and read by users of the Exchange server in a 24 hour period |
Application - Office365 - Exchange | Office365 - Exchange - Mail Apps Version Count | The versions of Outlook being used to access email services provided |
Prerequisites
- Opsview Monitor Version 6.0.0 (released 07 September 2018) or newer. Check Opsview Release Notes for the latest version of Opsview Monitor.
Known Issues
- As of the time of development, an issue exists with Microsoft's Graph API
HTTP 429 Too Many Requests
responses. These are received when too many requests are made in a short period of time. The issue lies in that the Retry-After value in the header of the response is always86
which inhibits us from using this value to know when to retry. As a result, the checks using this API will wait for 5 seconds before retrying, up to a maximum of 5 times.
Setup Office 365 for Monitoring
To monitor your Office 365 environment, you will need to retrieve the following credentials, which will allow Opsview access to the metrics for your Office 365 Subscription:
- Tenant/Directory ID
- Client/Application ID
- Secret Key
Follow the steps below to retrieve this information.
Step 1: Find the Tenant ID
The Tenant/Directory ID can be found in the Azure Active Directory under the Properties section from the Azure dashboard.


Step 2: Find the Client/Application ID for your application
You need to create and register your application if you haven't already. Use the following documentation from Microsoft: Create an Azure Active Directory application
The Client/Application ID can be found in Azure Active Directory under the App registrations section from the Azure dashboard.


Step 3: Generate the Secret Key for your application
You will need to create a Secret Key for your application, once this has been created its value will be hidden so save the value during creation.
To create the Secret Key, select your application from the list, select the Settings within your application and then select the Keys option.
There you can create a new key by adding the description and expiration period and the value will be generated.

Step 4: Add Required Permissions
The appropriate permissions for the APIs used by these Office365 Host-Templates need to be added in Azure. From the same settings menu as above, go to Required Permissions under API ACCESS. Click Add, select the API and then choose the permissions for that API based on the table below.
API | Application Permissions | Delegated Permissions |
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Microsoft Graph |
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Office 365 Management APIs |
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Setup and Configuration
Step 1: Add the Host Template
Add the Application - Office365 - Exchange Host Template to your Opsview Monitor host. If the resource you're monitoring has no hostname or public IP, then open the Advanced settings pane and change Host Check Command to Always assumed to be UP.
For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Host Templates to Hosts.
Step 2: Add and configure variables required for this host
Variable | Description |
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OFFICE365_CREDENTIALS | Used in authenticating services with Office 365. Override the Client ID, Secret Key and Tenant ID with your credentials. |
For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Variables to Hosts.
Step 3: Apply changes and the system will now be monitored
