Azure Resource Monitoring and Maintenance — Health, Security & Cost Optimization
Azure Resource Monitoring and Maintenance Service is a recurring managed service: IT Partner sets up monitoring tailored to your Azure environment using Azure-native tooling such as Azure Monitor, then monitors resource health, performance, security, backup processes, and utilization on the agreed schedule and provides regular reports with recommendations for cost optimization and performance improvement. The service is priced at $5 per server plus a $300 tenant fee per 30-day service period, and is managed by Roman Sotnik.
What this engagement is
This service provides monitoring and maintenance-related reviews for an Azure subscription. IT Partner sets up and configures monitoring tailored to the customer's Azure environment — built on Azure-native tooling such as Azure Monitor metrics and alerts — then monitors resource health, performance, security, usage, network performance, storage space, and backup processes, and provides analysis and recommendations to optimize costs and improve performance. It is a recurring service billed per 30-day period. Continuous 24/7 monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and around-the-clock support are available as optional, extra-cost add-ons.
Success criteria
What you receive
How the work unfolds
Discuss monitoring requirements, priorities, and access details.
Set up and configure monitoring tools and services tailored to your Azure environment.
Monitor resource health, performance, security, and backup processes on the agreed service schedule.
Analyze resource utilization patterns and provide regular reports with cost optimization recommendations.
Conduct periodic health checks and performance assessments.
Collaborate with your team to implement recommended optimizations, configuration changes, or maintenance tasks.
If separately purchased, provide continuous monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and 24/7 support through IT Partner's NOC, third-party support partnerships, and a Microsoft Premier Support agreement.
Prerequisites
Who does what
IT Partner
- Set up and configure advanced monitoring tools and services for your Azure environment.
- Monitor resource usage, network performance, and storage space on the agreed service schedule.
- Conduct regular health checks to identify potential issues or performance bottlenecks.
- Monitor and ensure the integrity and effectiveness of your backup processes.
- Analyze resource utilization and provide recommendations for optimizing costs and improving performance.
Your team
- Provide access to your Azure subscription and grant necessary permissions.
- Collaborate with our team to define monitoring requirements, priorities, and specific metrics.
- Review and implement recommended optimizations, configuration changes, or maintenance tasks.
What's not included
Limitations & technical notes
Frequently asked questions
What is the Azure Resource Monitoring and Maintenance Service?
It is a recurring managed service from IT Partner for monitoring and maintaining an Azure subscription. IT Partner sets up monitoring tailored to your Azure environment, monitors resource health, performance, security, backup processes, and utilization on the agreed schedule, and provides recommendations to optimize cost and improve performance. Continuous monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and 24/7 support are available as optional, extra-cost add-ons.
How much does the service cost, and what is the service term?
The service is priced at $5 per server plus a $300 tenant fee, billed per 30-day service period as a recurring managed service. The price is quoted in writing before service begins; Azure consumption and licensing costs are billed by Microsoft separately.
What is included in the Azure Resource Monitoring and Maintenance Service?
Setup and configuration of monitoring tools, scheduled monitoring of Azure resource health, performance, and security, analysis of utilization, network performance, storage space, and backup processes, discovery of potential issues, vulnerabilities, or bottlenecks, and regular reports with recommendations for cost optimization and performance improvement.
What tooling does IT Partner use for the monitoring?
Monitoring is built on Azure-native tooling — such as Azure Monitor metrics and alerts — configured to your environment and the metrics agreed at kickoff. The specific configuration is tailored to your subscriptions, workloads, and priorities.
Does the service include Azure backup monitoring?
Yes. The service covers backup process efficiency monitoring, data protection verification, and regular checks against backup best practices and requirements. IT Partner monitors the integrity and effectiveness of backup processes and reports issues and recommendations.
Does IT Partner implement cost optimization changes as part of the service?
The service delivers analysis and actionable recommendations — right-sizing, waste elimination, efficiency improvements — and IT Partner collaborates with your team on implementing recommended optimizations, configuration changes, or maintenance tasks. Major changes, remediation projects, and redesigns are scoped separately.
What Azure areas are monitored under this service?
Azure resource health, performance, security, usage, network performance, storage space, and backup processes, plus regular health checks and performance assessments to identify potential issues, vulnerabilities, or bottlenecks.
What prerequisites are required before IT Partner can start monitoring?
Access to the Azure subscription with the necessary permissions, and collaboration with IT Partner to define monitoring requirements, priorities, and the specific metrics that matter for your environment.
What are the client's responsibilities in this service?
Providing Azure subscription access and permissions, collaborating on monitoring priorities and metrics, and reviewing and implementing recommended optimizations, configuration changes, or maintenance tasks where customer authority is required.
Is 24/7 monitoring included?
Not by default. The base service monitors on the agreed service schedule. Continuous monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and 24/7 support are optional, extra-cost add-ons delivered through IT Partner's NOC, third-party support partnerships, and a Microsoft Premier Support agreement.
What reporting is provided as part of the service?
Regular reports with insights into Azure resource health, performance, utilization, and cost optimization opportunities — including recommendations such as right-sizing resources, eliminating waste, and improving efficiency — intended to support informed decision-making.
What is explicitly excluded from this service?
Azure consumption and licensing costs, remediation projects and major configuration changes, OS and application patching, backup architecture design and restore execution, security incident response and penetration testing, and monitoring of resources outside the agreed scope. Guaranteed response-time SLAs and after-hours support require the optional add-ons.