OpenTelemetry metrics and visualizations in Azure Monitor are generally
available, delivering an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure
Virtual Machines and Arc Servers. This release consolidates key monitoring
capabilities into a single experience and introduces a simplified onboarding
experience, helping customers more efficiently observe, diagnose, and optimize
their environments. Previously, VM monitoring visualizations were powered by metric data
from Log Analytics which continues to be fully supported. Customers now also
have the option to power these visualizations using OpenTelemetry (OTel) Gues OS metrics, offering a more cost-efficient and performant solution.
With this release, you can:
- Reduce
monitoring costs and improve troubleshooting efficiency with faster
metric query response times using OTel metrics
- Simplify
setup with a unified onboarding experience, including support for selecting
existing Data Collection Rules (DCRs)
- Onboard
and configure monitoring at scale through the Monitoring Coverage, ARM templates, or Bicep templates
- Enable
recommended alerts to accelerate issue detection and reduce
configuration overhead
- Leverage
Dashboards with Grafana for at-scale visibility and per-process
insights across your VM environments
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