Transition from the Container Monitoring Solution (deprecated) to using Container Insights

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With both the underlying platform and agent deprecations, on August 31, 2024 the Container Monitoring Solution will be retired. If you use the Container Monitoring Solution to ingest data to your Log Analytics workspace, make sure to transition to using Container Insights prior to that date.

Warning

The Container Monitoring Solution is no longer supported as of August 31, 2024.

Steps to complete the transition

To transition to Container Insights, we recommend the following approach.

  1. Learn about the feature differences between the Container Monitoring Solution and Container Insights to determine which option suits your needs.

  2. To use Container Insights, you will need to migrate your workload to Kubernetes. You can find more information on the compatible Kubernetes platforms from Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) or Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. If using AKS, you can choose to deploy Container Insights as a part of the process.

  3. Disable the existing monitoring of the Container Monitoring Solution using one of the following options: Azure portal, PowerShell, or Azure CLI

  4. If you elected to not onboard to Container Insights earlier, you can then deploy Container Insights using Azure CLI, ARM, or Portal following the instructions for AKS or Arc enabled Kubernetes

  5. Validate that the installation was successful for either your AKS or Arc cluster.

Container Monitoring Solution vs Container Insights

The following table highlights the key differences between monitoring using the Container Monitoring Solution versus Container Insights. Container Insights to that of the Container Monitoring Solution.

Feature Differences Container Monitoring Solution Container Insights
Onboarding Multi-step installation using Azure Marketplace & configuring Log Analytics Agent Single step onboarding via Azure portal, CLI, or ARM
Agent Log Analytics Agent (deprecated in 2024) Azure Monitor Agent
Alerting Log based alerts tied to Log Analytics Workspace Log based alerting and recommended metric-based alerts
Metrics Does not support Azure Monitor metrics Supports Azure Monitor metrics
Consumption Viewable only from Log Analytics Workspace Accessible from both Azure Monitor and AKS/Arc resource pane
Agent Manual agent upgrades Automatic updates for monitoring agent with version control through Azure Arc cluster extensions

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