Add static labels to Azure metrics in Cloud Provider Observability
Add static labels to Azure metrics in Cloud Provider Observability
You can now add static labels to Azure metrics credentials in Cloud Provider Observability. Static labels are custom key-value pairs that are attached to every metric collected from a credential, giving you a consistent, queryable dimension that Azure Monitor doesn’t provide on its own.
Most Azure environments don’t map neatly to a single subscription or resource group. Teams share infrastructure across subscriptions, the same service runs in multiple environments, and Azure resource tags are often inconsistent or missing entirely. Without a way to add your own context, filtering and grouping metrics across these boundaries means writing complex queries or managing separate dashboards for every slice of your infrastructure.
Static labels solve this directly. Once you add a label to a credential—for example, environment: production or team: platform—every metric from that credential carries that label automatically. You can then:
- Scope dashboards to a single environment without duplicating panels or using regex on subscription IDs
- Write cleaner alerts by filtering on
environment="production"rather than enumerating subscription or resource IDs - Compare across environments or teams in a single panel using label-based grouping
- Standardize your metric taxonomy when Azure resource tags are missing, inconsistently applied, or outside your control
