Microsoft now has 'next-generation' Azure Monitor alert capabilities that can incur costs to use, alongside its free 'classic' alerts.

Microsoft recently added two "next-generation" Azure Monitor alert capabilities -- "metric alerts" and "log alerts." These new alerts can incur costs, unlike the existing free "classic" alerts.

Log alerts - resource logs evaluated through Log Analytics query at a predefined frequency Prometheus alerts - alerts based on Prometheus metrics stored in Azure Monitor managed services for ...

Learn the concepts important to monitoring applications and how to configure Azure Monitor and Application Insights to collect relevant data, alert you when potential problems occur, and report on ...

Microsoft described how to modernize so-called 'classic' alert rules to work with the new Azure Monitor service in a Thursday Azure announcement.

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana are now available in public preview and support Azure data sources including Azure Monitor metrics, logs, traces, alerts, Azure Resource Graph, and Azure ...

Introducing Azure Monitor In Azure, that’s the role of Azure Monitor, a tool for collecting, collating, and storing logs and metrics from across your apps and services.

Alerts can be based on either Metrics or Log data but can also alert based on actions taken in the Azure control plane on your Azure resources (resizing a database for instance) through Activity logs.