Azure Monitor data source

The Azure Monitor data source plugin allows you to query and visualize data from Azure Monitor, the Azure service to maximize the availability and performance of applications and services in the Azure Cloud.

Supported features

Feature	Supported
Metrics	Yes
Logs	Yes
Traces	Yes
Alerting	Yes
Annotations	Yes

Note
The Azure Monitor data source requires Grafana 12.3 or later.

Supported Azure clouds

The Azure Monitor data source supports the following Azure cloud environments:

Azure - Azure public cloud (default)
Azure US Government - Azure Government cloud
Azure China - Azure China cloud operated by 21Vianet

Supported Azure services

The Azure Monitor data source supports the following Azure services:

Service	Description
Azure Monitor Metrics	Collect numeric data from resources in your Azure account. Supports dimensions, aggregations, and time grain configuration.
Azure Monitor Logs	Collect log and performance data from your Azure account using the Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Azure Resource Graph	Query your Azure resources across subscriptions using KQL. Useful for inventory, compliance, and resource management.
Application Insights Traces	Collect distributed trace data and correlate requests across your application components.

Get started

The following documents help you get started with the Azure Monitor data source:

Configure the Azure Monitor data source - Set up authentication and connect to Azure
Azure Monitor query editor - Create and edit queries for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Resource Graph
Template variables - Create dynamic dashboards with Azure Monitor variables
Alerting - Create alert rules using Azure Monitor data
Troubleshooting - Solve common configuration and query errors

Additional features

After you have configured the Azure Monitor data source, you can:

Add Annotations to overlay Azure log events on your graphs.
Configure and use Template variables for dynamic dashboards.
Add Transformations to manipulate query results.
Set up Alerting and recording rules using Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Resource Graph queries.
Use Explore to investigate your Azure data without building a dashboard.

Pre-built dashboards

The Azure Monitor plugin includes pre-built dashboards organized by category:

Infrastructure monitoring:

Azure / Infrastructure / Apps Monitoring
Azure / Infrastructure / Compute Monitoring
Azure / Infrastructure / Data Monitoring
Azure / Infrastructure / Network Monitoring
Azure / Infrastructure / Storage and Key Vaults Monitoring

Azure Insights:

Azure / Insights / Applications
Azure / Insights / Applications / Performance / Operations
Azure / Insights / Applications / Performance / Dependencies
Azure / Insights / Applications / Failures / Operations
Azure / Insights / Applications / Failures / Dependencies
Azure / Insights / Applications / Failures / Exceptions
Azure / Insights / Applications Test Availability Geo Map
Azure / Insights / CosmosDB
Azure / Insights / Data Explorer Clusters
Azure / Insights / Key Vaults
Azure / Insights / Networks
Azure / Insights / SQL Database
Azure / Insights / Storage Accounts
Azure / Insights / Virtual Machines by Resource Group
Azure / Insights / Virtual Machines by Workspace

Other:

Azure / Alert Consumption
Azure / Azure PostgreSQL / Flexible Server Monitoring
Azure Monitor / Container Insights / Syslog
Azure / Resources Overview

To import a pre-built dashboard:

Go to Connections > Data sources.
Select your Azure Monitor data source.
Click the Dashboards tab.
Click Import next to the dashboard you want to use.

Plugin updates

Always ensure that your plugin version is up-to-date so you have access to all current features and improvements. Navigate to Plugins and data > Plugins to check for updates. Grafana recommends upgrading to the latest Grafana version, and this applies to plugins as well.