Azure Monitor documentation

Azure Monitor

Overview

• What is Azure Monitor?
• What can you monitor?
• How do you collect data?

Get started

• Configure data collection
• Understand analysis and visualization tools
• Configure alerts and automated actions
• Optimize costs

Common scenarios

Overview

• Monitor virtual machines
• Monitor containers
• Monitor Kubernetes clusters

Application Insights

Get started

• Create a resource
• Auto-instrumentation
• Enable OpenTelemetry
• Overview dashboard

How-To Guide

• Monitor your website's availability
• Spot performance bottlenecks or failure hotspots
• Investigate failures, performance, and transactions

Azure Monitor Logs

Get started

• Set up a Log Analytics workspace
• Design a Log Analytics workspace architecture
• Log Analytics Workspace Insights

How-To Guide

• Analyze data in Log Analytics
• Manage tables in a Log Analytics workspace

Metrics in Azure Monitor

Get started

• Azure Monitor Metrics
• Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
• OpenTelemetry Guest OS metrics (preview)
• Custom metrics in Azure Monitor

How-To Guide

• Analyze metrics with Azure Monitor metrics explorer
• Connect Grafana to Azure Monitor Prometheus metrics
• Manage an Azure Monitor workspace

Monitoring agents & data collection

Get started

• Azure Monitor Agent
• Data collection rules (DCRs)
• Diagnostic settings

How-To Guide

• Install and manage the Azure Monitor Agent

Respond to issues

How-To Guide

• Alerts
• Autoscale

Visualize monitoring data

How-To Guide

• Insights and curated visualizations
• Workbooks
• Dashboards
• Power BI

Reference

Reference

• CLI Reference
• PowerShell Reference
• REST API Reference Index