Managed Grafana service on Azure with Entra ID sign-in and Azure Monitor, Azure Data Explorer and Prometheus data sources set up.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Paid
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- No
- Launched
- 2022
- Status
- Active
- Website
- azure.microsoft.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Dashboards and visualization checklist
6 of 8 confirmed in Azure Managed Grafana's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Dashboards.
- Many data sources Yes
- Prometheus source Yes
- SQL sources Yes
- Alerting Yes
- Template variables Not confirmed
- Dashboards as code Yes
- Sharing Yes
- Annotations Not confirmed
Built on Grafana, but variables and annotations are not restated in the Azure docs read
Checked against: learn.microsoft.com, learn.microsoft.com (2), learn.microsoft.com (3), learn.microsoft.com (4)
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