What is Azure Monitor used for?

Azure Monitor is a Microsoft Azure service for collecting, analyzing and acting on metrics, logs and traces from cloud and on-premises resources. It is a good fit for monitoring workloads running on Azure and centralizing logs from Azure resources.

How much does Azure Monitor cost?

Azure Monitor is a paid product with no free plan.

Is Azure Monitor open source?

No. Azure Monitor is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Azure Monitor include SigNoz, Grafana and OpenObserve.

What are some alternatives to Azure Monitor?

Azure Monitor competes with Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Observability and Datadog. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Azure Monitor alternatives.

Azure Monitor: features, pricing and alternatives

About Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is the monitoring service built into Microsoft Azure. It gathers metrics, logs and traces from Azure resources and applications, lets teams analyze them, and supports alerts so operators can respond when workloads misbehave.

Azure Monitor is a proprietary Microsoft service with no self-hosted edition, and it is part of the wider Azure operations toolset alongside services such as Defender for Cloud and Sentinel. Microsoft documents its current capabilities, data limits and pricing on the Azure site.

Key features

Metrics, logs and traces in one service
Analysis of Azure resource telemetry
Alerts on monitored conditions
Application performance insights
Integration with the Azure platform

Good fit for

→Monitoring workloads running on Azure
→Centralizing logs from Azure resources

Tags: azure; microsoft; monitoring; observability; logs; metrics; tracing

Azure Monitor: questions and answers

What is Azure Monitor used for?: Azure Monitor is a Microsoft Azure service for collecting, analyzing and acting on metrics, logs and traces from cloud and on-premises resources. It is a good fit for monitoring workloads running on Azure and centralizing logs from Azure resources.
How much does Azure Monitor cost?: Azure Monitor is a paid product with no free plan.
Is Azure Monitor open source?: No. Azure Monitor is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Azure Monitor include SigNoz, Grafana and OpenObserve.
What are some alternatives to Azure Monitor?: Azure Monitor competes with Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Observability and Datadog. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Azure Monitor alternatives.