Harnessing metrics for in-depth analysis

While logs provide detailed, event-driven insights, metrics offer a complementary perspective by delivering quantitative data points that track the performance and health of your resources over time. To effectively collect, visualize, and analyze these metrics, Azure Monitor provides a powerful tool known as Azure Metrics Explorer (aka Metrics Explorer).

Azure Metrics Explorer is a feature within Azure Monitor. It allows you to interactively explore, chart, and gain insights from a vast array of metrics, helping you understand the state and performance of your applications and infrastructure. Before going into further details, let’s see how we can get access to it through the Azure portal.

Accessing Azure Metrics Explorer

Metrics Explorer supports multiple accessing paths. If you are interested in a specific resource, you can open it through the Metrics menu entry inside the resource. However, if you want to explore across multiple...