# 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 <a href="#key-things-to-know" id="key-things-to-know"></a>

### Tenancy restrictions

The method below is relevant only for subscriptions in the same tenant as the managed BYOC 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](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/reference/metrics-index).

## Setting up the integration

The integration setup is done directly through the App by following these steps:

1. Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Data Sources or following [this link](https://app.groundcover.com/settings/integrations/data-sources). Note that only users with Admin permissions can navigate to this page.
2. 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

{% hint style="info" %}
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
{% endhint %}

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**


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