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Purpose
Azure Monitor collects, analyzes, and helps users respond to monitoring data from cloud and on-premises environments.Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Free plan
NoRead 23 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, USARead 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Founded
1975Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
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.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Application monitoring
Application Insights provides OpenTelemetry-based application performance monitoring for live web applications.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Autoscale
Autoscale can add or remove resources according to application load using metric-based rules, schedules, or both.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Hybrid monitoring
Azure Arc can connect other-cloud and on-premises resources for monitoring alongside Azure resources.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
ITSM integrations
Azure Monitor supports ITSM connections with ServiceNow ITSM or ITOM and BMC, including work-item creation based on alerts.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Logs and metrics
Azure Monitor collects logs and metrics across Azure services, including Microsoft Entra ID audit logs.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
On-premises availability
Azure Monitor is a cloud service with no on-premises version, though it can monitor on-premises resources.Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
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.Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
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.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Resources monitored
It can monitor applications, virtual machines, guest operating systems, containers, databases, security events, networking events, and custom API sources.Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Security and privacy
Microsoft describes Azure Monitor's enterprise readiness features as including data purging, encryption, and audit functionality.Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Visualization
Users can analyze data with metrics explorer and Log Analytics and view it in prebuilt workbooks, Grafana dashboards, or custom dashboards.Read 28 Sep 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Plans and prices

Pay-As-You-Go Price not published Pay for data ingested and other billable usage; listed prices vary by feature and region. 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 Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

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