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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
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:
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.
Note
Plugins are automatically updated in Grafana Cloud.
Query with the Grafana CLI
You can query this data source from the command line and from AI coding agents using the Grafana CLI, gcx. gcx gives you and your agent structured, terminal-based access to your Grafana data sources, which is useful for automation and agent-driven investigations.
gcx supports Grafana Cloud and Grafana OSS or Enterprise v12 and later. Before you query, install and authenticate gcx. Refer to the
gcx CLI documentation for installation, configuration, and the full command reference.
For example, to explore and query your Azure Monitor data source, use the gcx datasources azuremonitor commands:
# Discover subscriptions, resource groups, and resources
gcx datasources azuremonitor list-subscriptions -d <DATASOURCE_UID>
gcx datasources azuremonitor list-resource-groups -d <DATASOURCE_UID> --subscription <SUBSCRIPTION_ID>
gcx datasources azuremonitor list-resources -d <DATASOURCE_UID> --subscription <SUBSCRIPTION_ID> --resource-group my-rg
# List the metrics available for a resource
gcx datasources azuremonitor list-metrics -d <DATASOURCE_UID> --subscription <SUBSCRIPTION_ID> \
--resource-group my-rg --namespace Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines --resource my-vm
# Run a structured metrics query
gcx datasources azuremonitor query -d <DATASOURCE_UID> --subscription <SUBSCRIPTION_ID> \
--resource-group my-rg --namespace Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines --resource my-vm \
--metric 'Percentage CPU' --aggregation Average --since 1h
# Query a Log Analytics workspace with KQL
gcx datasources azuremonitor logs query 'AppRequests | take 10' -d <DATASOURCE_UID> \
--subscription <SUBSCRIPTION_ID> --resource-group my-rg --workspace my-workspace
# Query Azure Resource Graph with KQL
gcx datasources azuremonitor resource-graph query 'Resources | project name, type | limit 10' \
-d <DATASOURCE_UID> --subscription <SUBSCRIPTION_ID>Replace <DATASOURCE_UID> with the UID of your Azure Monitor data source and <SUBSCRIPTION_ID> with an Azure subscription ID. You can omit the -d flag when datasources.azuremonitor is configured in your gcx context. Metrics queries are structured rather than expression-based, so --subscription, --resource-group, --namespace, --resource, and --metric are required, while logs query and resource-graph query take KQL. Data sources configured with Current User authentication can’t be queried with API tokens or service accounts.
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