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Today, customers can create Diagnostic Settings in their resources to export metric data for their resources to a set of destinations. Currently, export of metrics supported via Diagnostic Settings is limited. Customers cannot export metrics with dimensions, not all metrics are supported, and it incur a few minutes of latency.

We are excited to announce a platform metrics from Azure Monitor. This powerful addition allows customers to export metrics for their Azure resources on a large scale with full fidelity and low latency, along with the new added ability to filter particular metrics while configuring exports.

Azure Monitor Metrics Export is configurable through Data Collection Rules (DCR), which provides the capability to route Azure resource metrics data to Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Event Hubs and Azure Log Analytics Workspace for 18 resource types and 10 Azure public regions.

Here are some key features and benefits of Azure Monitor Metrics Export –

1. Easily scalable: DCR is the de facto collection configuration mechanism in Azure Monitor; it allows setting a collection config once and applying it at scale to many resources. DCR now provides an easier solution to span across subscriptions to export resources metrics at scale and provides flexibility if more resources need to be added in an existing DCR configuration.


2. Flexibility on what to collect: Customers can filter collection with a few select metrics or all metrics for a given set of resources, allowing for volume and cost control. With the new enhanced experience, customers can easily access the metrics they deem most important.


3. Export with full fidelity and low latency: Resource metric data is exported with dimensional information which provides ease of correlation. This feature significantly improves the metrics export latency.

By using Azure Monitor Metrics export, organizations can streamline their monitoring processes and improve their infrastructure’s overall performance. We look forward to seeing the innovative solutions and exciting use cases that developers and organizations will create using this feature.

Azure Monitor Metrics Export is being used by several customers in Private Preview. Here is what some of them have to say about their experience: 

Customer Quote

“Previously, running out of disk space caused support teams to halt their work to clear space, but the feature now enables them to be warned beforehand, reducing manual intervention and outages doublefold (2X).​– Franscois Piennaar (Cloud/Database Engineer; Tata Steel NL)

The new Azure Monitor Metrics Export will be charged at a rate of $0.003/1000 metrics samples (Refer to pricing details here). Please note current users of the Diagnostic Settings will see no change in pricing.

Learn more about Azure Monitor Metrics Export – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/data-collection-metrics