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Section 2 · Cloud metrics

Collect Azure Monitor metrics with the serverless solution.

Estimated time: 1 min

How it works

Azure metrics serverless architecture: Grafana Cloud pulls from Azure Monitor API

Complexity: Simple | Infrastructure: None | Latency: Minutes

This is the serverless collection method: Grafana Cloud collects Azure metrics through the Azure Monitor API, with no collector or agent to deploy. Collecting with Grafana Alloy is a separate, agent-based method.

Create a service principal in Microsoft Entra ID with read access to Azure Monitor and provide those credentials to Grafana Cloud. Grafana Cloud queries the Azure Monitor API, discovers your resources automatically, and pulls metrics in, converting them to Prometheus format so you can query them with PromQL.

Considerations

  • Managed by Grafana Cloud, with no Azure infrastructure to deploy
  • Simple service principal authentication
  • Automatic resource discovery
  • Metrics in Prometheus format for PromQL
  • Minute-level latency
  • API rate limits at scale
  • Per-subscription credentials, so multiple subscriptions need multiple configurations

When to use

  • Getting started with Azure metrics
  • Single subscription
  • Minimal infrastructure preference

Documentation

View the Collect Azure metrics with the serverless solution documentation.

Path

Configure this approach step by step.

Azure metrics: serverless