Azure Monitor

Full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network.

Overview

Monitoring Azure and on-premises services. Aggregate and analyze metrics, logs, and traces. Fire alerts and send notifications or call automated solutions.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/monitor/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/monitor/
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Getting Started

  1. 9/14/2022, Learning Path
    Learn how to monitor the usage, performance, and availability of resources using Azure Monitor.

News

Date News
7/7/2025
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month July’s Ace Aviator: Şahin Özdemir Şahin Özdemir - Application Integration...
7/3/2025
Industry: Energy Location: North America Executive Summary: AI-Driven Multi-Agent Knowledge and IT Support Solution for an Energy Industry Firm A North American energy company sought to modernize...
6/30/2025
We're announcing the General Availability of Query Editor in Azure Metric Explorer through Azure Monitor Workspace (AMW). With this update, customers can directly query Prometheus metrics using...
6/26/2025
Azure Managed Prometheus sends metrics into Azure Monitor Workspace. Customers can now view and monitor issues with ingestion of Prometheus metrics as part of the platform metrics for the Azure...
6/24/2025
Introduction Monitoring your applications is essential, as it ensures that you know what's happening and you are not caught by surprise when something happens. One possible event is the...
6/19/2025
Why OpenTelemetry? As modern applications become more distributed and complex, robust observability is no longer optional—it is essential. Organizations need a consistent way to understand how...
6/17/2025
Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, is expanding its integrated diagnostics capabilities with the Public Preview of Continuous...
6/16/2025
Gateway-Level Metrics: Deep Insight into Performance Azure API Management now exposes fine-grained metrics for each Azure API management v2 gateway instance, giving you more control and...
5/30/2025
Introduction Azure Container Apps provides a serverless platform for running containers at scale, and one of the big benefits is that you can easily scale workloads to zero when they are not...
5/21/2025
We’re excited to announce the preview of AI powered Actionable Insights in Azure Load Testing—a new capability that helps teams quickly identify performance issues and understand test results...
5/21/2025
We’re excited to announce the next milestone in our journey to simplify monitoring across Azure Integration Services. As a follow-up to our earlier preview release on unified monitoring and...
5/21/2025
Custom Events offer developers a way to track user or system actions that matter to their business or observability objectives. For example, a developer may want to track an end-user action such...
5/21/2025
Container insights visualizations were previously powered by metric data from Log Analytics. This new feature offers customers the option to power these visualizations using managed Prometheus...
5/21/2025
Managed Prometheus visualizations in Azure Monitor are now generally available, along with an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This release brings...
5/21/2025
Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of Prometheus recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters. These alerts, based on enhanced Prometheus...
5/21/2025
Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of Prometheus recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for AKS clusters. These alerts, based on enhanced Prometheus community rules, provide...
5/21/2025
Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI now supports up to 100,000 records per query, a significant increase from the previous 30,000-record limit. This enhancement enables deeper investigations and...
5/21/2025
Many organizations emphasize the need to segregate and control access to data in a granular manner, while maintaining a centralized logging platform. On top of the existing capabilities of Azure...
5/20/2025
These capabilities enhance your troubleshooting experience and streamline diagnosing and resolving health degradation of your application and infrastructure. AI-powered Investigations enable fast...
5/20/2025
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new feature in Azure Monitor: Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2, available during May.Key Benefits:Personalized Alert Emails: This...