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Expert knowledge for Azure Monitor development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when working with Log Analytics workspaces, Application Insights, VM/Container insights, AKS/Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry, and other Azure Monitor related development tasks. Not for Azure Managed Grafana (use azure-managed-grafana), Azure Network Watcher (use azure-network-watcher), Azure Service Health (use azure-service-health), Azure Defender For Cloud (use azure-defender-for-cloud).
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This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Monitor. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
Guides Azure capacity and quota management for SaaS ISVs in EA/MCA subscriptions. Covers VM quota increases, reservation groups, region access, alerts, AKS integration, and governance.
Queries Azure Monitor activity and sign-in logs with azure-monitor-query and KQL to detect privilege escalations, impossible travel, suspicious admin ops, and resource changes.
Queries Azure Log Analytics workspaces and Monitor metrics using Python SDK. Supports Kusto queries, batch operations, time ranges, pandas DataFrames, and partial result handling.
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This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Monitor. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
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read_filewith specific line ranges (e.g.,L136-L144) to read the sections needed for the user's question This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content. Usemcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetchto retrieve full articles.
WebFetch tool if the Microsoft Learn MCP server is not available.| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L31-L80 | Diagnosing and fixing Azure Monitor issues: agent/extension problems, data collection and ingestion failures, alerts and metrics errors, Application Insights and Container insights troubleshooting. |
| Best Practices | L82-L123 | Best practices for Azure Monitor configuration, queries, costs, alerts, autoscale, AKS/VM monitoring, Prometheus/OTel, workbooks, and migrating legacy agents/logs for reliable observability. |
| Decision Making | L125-L155 | Guidance for planning and deciding Azure Monitor migrations, alert types, cost/usage optimization, data export options, and moving from legacy/third‑party monitoring tools to Azure Monitor |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L157-L163 | Designing Azure Monitor architectures: enterprise-wide layouts, Private Link network patterns, choosing single vs multiple workspaces, and using workspace replication for resilience. |
| Limits & Quotas | L165-L226 | Limits, quotas, performance, and scale behavior for Azure Monitor logs, metrics, agents, autoscale, ingestion, APIs, and resource-specific monitoring (e.g., AKS, DBs, Event Grid, Cosmos DB). |
| Security | L228-L284 | Securing Azure Monitor and related services: network isolation, TLS, auth (Entra, RBAC, keys), policy/compliance, private access, and analyzing security/audit logs across many Azure/3rd‑party workloads. |
| Configuration | references/configuration.md | Configuring Azure Monitor data collection, diagnostics, alerts, metrics, workspaces, pipelines, and schemas across VMs, Kubernetes, Application Insights, autoscale, and many Azure/SaaS resources. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | references/integrations.md | Integrating Azure Monitor with VMs, apps, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ITSM, Grafana, REST APIs, and using KQL patterns to query, export, and analyze logs and metrics across services. |
| Deployment | references/deployment.md | Deploying and managing Azure Monitor agents, alerts, diagnostics, Application Insights (Profiler/Snapshot), VM insights, and workbooks at scale using portal, ARM, CLI, PowerShell, and policy. |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Design an enterprise monitoring architecture with Azure Monitor | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/fundamentals/enterprise-monitoring-architecture |
| Design Azure Monitor Private Link architecture | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/fundamentals/private-link-design |
| Design single vs multiple Log Analytics workspaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/workspace-design |
| Design resilient architectures with Log Analytics workspace replication | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/workspace-replication |