Azure Private Link monitoring data reference

This article contains all the monitoring reference information for this service.

See Monitor Azure Private Link for details on the data you can collect for Private Link and how to use it.

Metrics

This section lists all the automatically collected platform metrics for this service. These metrics are also part of the global list of all platform metrics supported in Azure Monitor.

For information on metric retention, see Azure Monitor Metrics overview.

The following table lists the metrics available for the Microsoft.Network/privateLinkServices resource type.

Table headings

Metric - The metric display name as it appears in the Azure portal.
Name in Rest API - Metric name as referred to in the REST API.
Unit - Unit of measure.
Aggregation - The default aggregation type. Valid values: Average, Minimum, Maximum, Total, Count.
Dimensions - Dimensions available for the metric.
Time Grains - Intervals at which the metric is sampled. For example, PT1M indicates that the metric is sampled every minute, PT30M every 30 minutes, PT1H every hour, and so on.
DS Export- Whether the metric is exportable to Azure Monitor Logs via Diagnostic Settings. For information on exporting metrics, see Create diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor.

Metric	Name in REST API	Unit	Aggregation	Dimensions	Time Grains	DS Export
Bytes In Total number of Bytes In	`PLSBytesIn`	Count	Total (Sum)	<none>	PT1M	Yes
Bytes Out Total number of Bytes Out	`PLSBytesOut`	Count	Total (Sum)	<none>	PT1M	Yes
Nat Ports Usage Nat Ports Usage	`PLSNatPortsUsage`	Percent	Average	`PrivateLinkServiceIPAddress`	PT1M	Yes

For information about what metric dimensions are, see Multi-dimensional metrics.

This service has the following dimensions associated with its metrics.

The linked table lists the operations that may be recorded in the activity log for this service. This is a subset of all the possible resource provider operations in the activity log.

For more information on the schema of activity log entries, see Activity Log schema.

See Monitor Azure Private Link for a description of monitoring Private Link.
See Monitor Azure resources with Azure Monitor for details on monitoring Azure resources.