Unified monitoring provider Zenoss is extending its flagship Service Dynamics suite with two new plug-ins for Windows Server and Azure environments.

In a release, Zenoss cited Bloomberg projections that Azure deployments will surpass $1 billion in sales this year thanks to a 20 percent adoption rate among companies that use cloud services. The vendor is seeking to tap this market with Azure ZenPack, which consolidates monitoring to help admins troubleshoot problems faster and more effectively.

The extension also provides automated discovery, monitoring and event management capabilities for all “Azure subscription entities,” including apps, websites, virtual machine instances, storage services and virtual networks. It’s available alongside a new version of the Windows Server ZenPack that features built-in reporting capabilities and lets customers keep tabs on their multi-instance SQL server deployments and Windows Cluster Services.

The two ZenPacks join the existing Zenoss Service Dynamics plugins for Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud, Citrix XenServer, OpenStack and CloudStack.

Alan Conley, the CTO of Zenoss, stated that “having a unified IT operations platform is essential with the Cloud era now upon us. With Zenoss’ Windows Server ZenPack and Windows Azure ZenPack, enterprise customers can move beyond monitoring individual elements to full application and service monitoring throughout their Microsoft infrastructure, with an open and flexible solution capable of reducing complexity and downtime and lowering the cost of IT Operations.”

Today’s product milestone comes just a few weeks after Zenoss pulled the curtains back on the latest version of Service Impact, a tool for mapping application and service dependencies across physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructure. The new release is significantly faster and more scalable than before, according to the company, and features a new deployment option for distributed network as well as self-service tutorials.