Monitor Azure Managed Grafana using Azure Monitor's metric chart

In this article, you learn how to use Azure Monitor metric charts to monitor an Azure Managed Grafana workspace.

In Azure Monitor, metrics are a series of measured values and counts that are collected and stored over time. These metrics reflect the health and usage statistics of your Azure resources.

Prerequisites

Supported metrics

The following metrics are available for the Microsoft.Dashboard/grafana resource type.

  • HttpRequestCount: The number of HTTP requests to the Azure Managed Grafana server.
  • MemoryUsagePercentage: The Azure Managed Grafana workspace memory usage as a percentage.

For more details about supported metrics, go to Supported metrics for Microsoft.Dashboard/grafana.

Create a metric chart

These metrics can be accessed from your Azure Managed Grafana workspace, from Azure Monitor, and through the Azure Monitor API. The following section details how to create a metric chart in an Azure Managed Grafana workspace, in the Azure portal.

  1. Open a Managed Grafana resource and go to Monitoring > Metrics.

  2. Configure your chart:

    • The portal prepopulates the scope and metric namespace.
    • Select a metric from the list.
    • Select an aggregation type: Count, Avg, Min, Max, or Sum.
    • Select the time range and granularity that are relevant for your investigation.

    Screenshot of the Azure platform showing a metric chart.

  3. Optionally, create an alert rule to receive a notification if the metric exceeds or drops below a threshold. You can also pin the chart to an Azure dashboard, a Grafana workspace, or a workbook.

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