Ingest Azure Monitor Metrics

groundcover supports ingesting Azure Monitor metrics directly into our platform, allowing you to visualize them using dashboards and create alerts.

Things to know

Tenancy restrictions

The method below is relevant only for subscriptions in the same tenant as the managed inCloud set up by groundcover.

Ingestion interval

The integration pulls data from Azure Monitor every five minutes.

Data storage

Data fetched is stored in the Victoria Metrics database, meaning metrics are queried via the Azure Monitor API only one time per data point.

Supported services

groundcover supports ingestion of every Azure service listed in the Azure docs.

Setting up the integration

The following steps requires the details of a dedicated managed identity to set up the integration.

Make sure it has been provided to you by the groundcover team

Create a Role Assignment

1. Go to the subscription where you want to collect metrics from.

2. Navigate to Access Control (IAM).

3. Add a new role assignment

   • Click on Add -> Add role assignment.

   • Search and select the Monitoring Reader role.

   • Click Next.

   • In Assign access to choose Managed identity.

   • Click Select members.

   • From the groundcover subscription, in Managed Identity choose User assigned managed identity and select the integrations identity by the integrations identity provided by groundcover.

   • Select Review + Assign

Share details with groundcover

Share the following details with the groundcover team to complete the integration:

1. The subscription ID where you performed the steps above.

2. The list of services you wish to ingest metrics from.

3. The region that hosts the account you wish to ingest metrics from.

4. The list of subscription IDs you wish to ingest metrics from.