Monitor Azure resources with Grafana Cloud
Welcome to the Grafana learning journey that shows you how to monitor Azure resources using Grafana Cloud Provider Observability. This journey teaches you to connect your Azure account to Grafana Cloud and monitor your Azure services through comprehensive dashboards and metrics without running any collectors.
Grafana Cloud Provider Observability provides serverless monitoring for your Azure infrastructure without requiring additional setup or maintenance overhead. The Cloud Provider Observability Azure solution collects metrics from Azure Monitor and presents them through pre-built dashboards optimized for Azure services.
The Cloud Provider Observability Azure solution differs from traditional monitoring solutions by using Azure Resource Graph and Azure Monitor Metrics Batch API to automatically discover and collect metrics every two minutes. This serverless approach gives you complete visibility into your Azure environment without managing collectors or agents.
Here’s what to expect
When you complete this journey, you’ll be able to:
- Understand the value of observability and the advantages of Grafana Cloud Provider Observability
- Navigate to the Cloud Provider Observability Azure configuration interface in Grafana Cloud
- Create an Azure service principal with appropriate permissions for monitoring
- Connect your Azure account to Grafana Cloud
- Configure automatic metric discovery for your Azure resources
- Verify data is collected and sent to Grafana Cloud
- Explore Azure service data using pre-built dashboards
Before you begin
Before you monitor Azure resources, ensure that you have:
- A Grafana Cloud account. To create a free account, go to Grafana Cloud and enter an email address and password.
- An Azure account with administrative access or appropriate permissions to create service principals and assign roles.
- Azure resources running that you want to monitor, such as Virtual Machines, databases, or storage accounts.
- Basic familiarity with Azure services and understanding of their operation.
Troubleshooting
If you get stuck, we’ve got your back. Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.
More to explore
We understand you might want to explore other capabilities not strictly on this path. We’ll provide you opportunities where it makes sense.