Azure Monitor Metrics Export Generally Available

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Export using data collection rules (DCRs). A scalable, flexible way to continuously export platform metrics with dimensional fidelity, lower latency, and more control over what you send downstream.

Azure Monitor Metrics Export is configured through data collection rules and can route platform metrics to Azure Storage accounts, Azure Event Hubs, or Azure Log Analytics workspaces. Compared to diagnostic settings, DCR-based metrics export supports multidimensional metrics, metric-name filtering, and improved scalability for large environments.

Here are some of the key benefits of Azure Monitor Metrics Export:

1. Control what you export: You can export all supported metrics for a resource type or filter to specific metric names, helping reduce downstream volume and manage cost.
2. Preserve dimensional fidelity: The DCR-based metric export supports multidimensional metrics, making downstream analysis and correlation more meaningful.
3. Get faster export latency: End-to-end export latency is typically within about 3 minutes, improving time to insight for operational and analytics workflows.

With Azure Monitor Metrics Export, organizations can build more scalable observability pipelines, route metrics to the destinations that fit their architecture, and unlock richer analysis for operations, reporting, and integration scenarios.

What’s new in GA

With general availability, Azure Monitor Metrics Export offers a production-ready path to continuously stream supported platform metrics using data collection rules.  Azure Monitor Metrics Export now covers 44 Azure regions, up from 12 regions previously. This expanded footprint helps more customers adopt DCR-based metrics export closer to where their resources run, improving rollout flexibility for global deployments.

Customers can export metrics to Azure Storage, Azure Event Hubs, or Azure Log Analytics, preserve metric dimensions, and filter by metric name to better control downstream volume and cost.

Learn more about metrics export using data collection rules.

We’re excited to make Azure Monitor Metrics Export generally available and look forward to seeing how customers use it to build more reliable, cost-conscious, and extensible monitoring solutions on Azure.