You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
Copy file name to clipboardExpand all lines: articles/azure-monitor/visualize/best-practices-visualize.md
+11-9Lines changed: 11 additions & 9 deletions
Display the source diff
Display the rich diff
Original file line number
Diff line number
Diff line change
@@ -18,16 +18,9 @@ This article compares the different options for visualizing collected data in Az
18
18
19
19
Azure workbooks are ideal for Azure managed hybrid and edge environments, including hybrid environments with Azure Arc. They allow you to create custom reports based on data from insights and provide integrations with other Azure features for actions and automation.
20
20
21
-
## Azure dashboards
22
-
23
-
[Azure dashboards](/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards) are useful in providing a single pane of glass for your Azure infrastructure and services. While a workbook provides richer functionality, a dashboard can combine Azure Monitor data with data from other Azure services. Learn how to create a dashboard from the following video:
[Grafana](https://grafana.com/) is an open platform that excels in operational dashboards. It allows you to combine data queries, query results, and perform open-ended client-side data processing. Grafana has plug-ins and dashboard templates for application performance monitoring (APM) tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, and AppDynamics. It also has AWS CloudWatch and GCP BigQuery plug-ins for multicloud monitoring.
23
+
[Grafana](https://grafana.com/) is an open platform that excels in operational dashboards. It allows you to combine data queries, query results, and perform open-ended client-side data processing.
31
24
32
25
You have two options for using Grafana with Azure, Dashboards with Grafana and Azure Managed Grafana.
33
26
@@ -40,20 +33,29 @@ However, if you want to:
40
33
- use open-source or other external data sources
41
34
- audit usage logs
42
35
- use private networking
43
-
- use managed identity authentication, service pricipal methods
36
+
- use managed identity authentication or service pricipal methods
44
37
45
38
**Azure Managed Grafana** is the correct choice.
46
39
47
40
For an overview of each choice, see [Visualize with Grafana](visualize-grafana-overview.md).
48
41
49
42
[Azure Managed Grafana](/azure/managed-grafana/overview) optimizes this experience for Azure-native data stores such as Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer. You can easily connect to any resource in your subscription and view all resulting telemetry in a familiar Grafana dashboard. It integrates into the Azure Monitor portal and includes out-of-the-box dashboards for Azure resources and also supports pinning charts from Azure Monitor metrics and logs to Grafana dashboards. See [Visualize with Grafana](../visualize/visualize-grafana-overview.md) to get started.
50
43
44
+
Grafana has plug-ins and dashboard templates for application performance monitoring (APM) tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, and AppDynamics. It also has AWS CloudWatch and GCP BigQuery plug-ins for multicloud monitoring.
45
+
51
46
All versions of Grafana include the [Azure Monitor datasource plug-in](../visualize/visualize-grafana-overview.md) to visualize your Azure Monitor metrics and logs. The [out-of-the-box Grafana Azure alerts dashboard](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/15128-azure-alert-consumption/) allows you to view and consume Azure monitor alerts for Azure Monitor, your Azure datasources, and Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus.
52
47
53
48
:::image type="content" source="media/visualizations/grafana.png" lightbox="media/visualizations/grafana.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows Grafana visualizations.":::
54
49
55
50
Grafana is ideal for data visualizations and dashboards in cloud-native scenario such as Kubernetes as well as multicloud, open source software, and third-party integrations. It provides interoperability with open-source and third-party tools and allows you to share dashboards outside of the Azure portal.
56
51
52
+
## Azure dashboards
53
+
54
+
[Azure dashboards](/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards) are useful in providing a single pane of glass for your Azure infrastructure and services. While a workbook provides richer functionality, a dashboard can combine Azure Monitor data with data from other Azure services. Learn how to create a dashboard from the following video:
[Power BI](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/documentation/powerbi-service-get-started/) is useful for creating business-centric dashboards and reports, along with reports that analyze long-term KPI (Key Performance Indicator) trends. You can [import the results of a log query](../logs/log-powerbi.md) into a Power BI dataset, which allows you to take advantage of features such as combining data from different sources and sharing reports on the web and mobile devices.
0 commit comments