Configure metric collection
In this milestone, you’ll configure automatic metric discovery for your Azure resources. Cloud Provider Observability uses autodiscovery to automatically find and collect metrics from all available Azure resources in your subscriptions, eliminating the need to manually specify resources and metrics.
Autodiscovery provides the fastest path to comprehensive Azure monitoring by automatically detecting resources as they’re created or modified in your Azure environment. Available metrics refresh every hour, and your configuration automatically updates as your environment evolves.
Review the subscription information to ensure the correct Azure subscriptions are included. The configuration displays all subscriptions accessible by the service principal you created.
Scroll to the Configure metrics section and select Autodiscovery.
Click Create credential to save your configuration and begin collecting metrics.
Cloud Provider Observability immediately begins discovering resources and collecting metrics from your Azure subscriptions. Metrics are collected every two minutes, and available metrics refresh every hour.
Your Azure monitoring configuration is complete and metric collection has started.
In your next milestone, you’ll verify that data is being collected and sent to Grafana Cloud.