Azure Monitor offers Grafana dashboards natively for immediate real time operational monitoring

The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger. 

Today at its annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, a new service that provides Azure users with Grafana dashboards natively integrated in the Azure Portal at no additional cost and with little administrative overhead required. 

The Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana service, which is available in public preview, enables Azure users to create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure Portal. Users can also start monitoring their Azure ecosystem easily with prebuilt Grafana dashboards available by default for more than a dozen Azure services, such as Azure Monitor metrics, logs, traces, and alerts as well as Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and more.

How Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana works

With Grafana dashboards, Azure users not only gain access to the leading open source dashboarding and visualization tool. They can also engage with the Grafana community and the wider open source community. 

The Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana service is compatible with Grafana OSS, so users can import any one of the thousands of Grafana dashboards for Prometheus and Azure Monitor data sources that the open source community has created. 

The Grafana dashboards created in the Azure Portal are also portable across any Grafana instance, regardless of where it is hosted. Teams can share and re-use dashboards in Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, Azure Managed Grafana, self-hosted Grafana, Grafana Cloud, and more.

To learn more, read the Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana documentation. 

Microsoft Azure + Grafana 

Over the years, Grafana has become the de facto standard for the visualization of all observability data, but this collaboration represents a watershed moment. By embedding Grafana directly into the default user experience of the Azure portal, we’ve established a first-of-its-kind partnership with Microsoft that will reach every Azure user.

This isn’t just about integration. It’s about becoming an essential part of the daily workflow for the 700,000+ organizations that use Azure worldwide and welcoming more of our mutual users into the Grafana community.

For more information, check out our Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana service press release.