Azure Monitor
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Azure Monitor, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Azure Monitor's own pricing page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-As-You-Go | — | 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 · Pay for data ingested and other billable usage; listed prices vary by feature and region. |
The facts
Each one read from Azure Monitor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- 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.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Autoscale
- Autoscale can add or remove resources according to application load using metric-based rules, schedules, or both.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Hybrid monitoring
- Azure Arc can connect other-cloud and on-premises resources for monitoring alongside Azure resources.checked 28 Sep 2026
- ITSM integrations
- Azure Monitor supports ITSM connections with ServiceNow ITSM or ITOM and BMC, including work-item creation based on alerts.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Logs and metrics
- Azure Monitor collects logs and metrics across Azure services, including Microsoft Entra ID audit logs.checked 28 Sep 2026
- On-premises availability
- Azure Monitor is a cloud service with no on-premises version, though it can monitor on-premises resources.checked 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.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Azure Monitor collects, analyzes, and helps users respond to monitoring data from cloud and on-premises environments.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Resources monitored
- It can monitor applications, virtual machines, guest operating systems, containers, databases, security events, networking events, and custom API sources.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Security and privacy
- Microsoft describes Azure Monitor's enterprise readiness features as including data purging, encryption, and audit functionality.checked 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.checked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Application monitoring
- Application Insights provides OpenTelemetry-based application performance monitoring for live web applications.checked 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.checked 28 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1975checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Redmond, Washington, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
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