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title: "Azure metrics - Grafana Alloy | Grafana Labs"
description: "Collect Azure metrics using Grafana Alloy for flexibility."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## How it works

[Azure metrics Alloy architecture: Alloy pulls from Azure Monitor across subscriptions, pushes to Grafana Cloud Mimir](cp-olly-viz-azure-metrics-alloy-light.svg "Azure metrics Alloy architecture: Alloy pulls from Azure Monitor across subscriptions, pushes to Grafana Cloud Mimir")

**Complexity:** Flexible | **Infrastructure:** VM, ACI, or AKS | **Latency:** Configurable

## Trade-offs

| Pros                               | Cons                       |
|------------------------------------|----------------------------|
| Multi-subscription from one agent  | Deploy and manage Alloy    |
| Managed identity (no key rotation) | Infrastructure to maintain |
| Full processing pipeline           | Learning curve             |
| Combine with other sources         |                            |

## When to use

- Multi-subscription environments
- Want managed identity
- Combining Azure with other clouds

## Documentation

View the full documentation. *Learning path coming soon!*

[Azure Alloy metrics](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/azure/config-azure-metrics/)