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Azure Monitor
Redmond, Washington, USA
Plans and prices
Pay-As-You-Go
Priced on request
Free platform metrics ingestion · First 1,000,000 platform metric query API calls per month included · Log retention included for 30, 31, or 90 days depending on data type
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On the record
- Alerts and response
- Alerts notify users of issues, and Azure Monitor includes machine-learning features such as dynamic thresholds and smart detection to reduce alert noise.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Application monitoring
- Application Insights provides OpenTelemetry-based application performance monitoring for live web applications.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Autoscale
- Autoscale can add or remove resources according to application load using metric-based rules, schedules, or both.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Hybrid monitoring
- Azure Arc can connect other-cloud and on-premises resources for monitoring alongside Azure resources.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- ITSM integrations
- Azure Monitor supports ITSM connections with ServiceNow ITSM or ITOM and BMC, including work-item creation based on alerts.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Logs and metrics
- Azure Monitor collects logs and metrics across Azure services, including Microsoft Entra ID audit logs.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- On-premises availability
- Azure Monitor is a cloud service with no on-premises version, though it can monitor on-premises resources.azure.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Pricing and limits
- Azure Monitor Logs charges for ingested data, and included log retention is 30 days for Basic and Auxiliary Logs, 31 days for Analytics Logs, and 90 days for Analytics Logs when Microsoft Sentinel is enabled.azure.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Azure Monitor collects, analyzes, and helps users respond to monitoring data from cloud and on-premises environments.azure.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Query and data platform
- Log Analytics workspaces store logs and traces queryable with KQL, while Azure Monitor workspaces store Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics queryable with PromQL.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Resources monitored
- It can monitor applications, virtual machines, guest operating systems, containers, databases, security events, networking events, and custom API sources.azure.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Security and privacy
- Microsoft describes Azure Monitor's enterprise readiness features as including data purging, encryption, and audit functionality.azure.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Visualization
- Users can analyze data with metrics explorer and Log Analytics and view it in prebuilt workbooks, Grafana dashboards, or custom dashboards.learn.microsoft.com · read 28 Sep 2026
