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 according to this interval. The lower the interval, the higher the polling rate and as a result, the overall costs will be higher. The interval can be altered in the Advanced Settings in the configuration wizard.
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 can support the ingestion of every Azure service listed in the Azure docs.
Setting up the integration
The integration setup is done directly through the App by following these steps:
Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Data Sources or following this link. Note that only users with Admin permissions can navigate to this page.
Select Microsoft Azure and follow the 3 steps in the wizard. Note that in order for the integration to work, a role assignment should be created, granting groundcover with permissions to poll metrics. To create a role assignment, please follow the guidelines in the next section.
Create a Role Assignment
Go to the subscription where you want to collect metrics from.
Navigate to Access Control (IAM).
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
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