In line with our commitment to open-source solutions, we are announcing the public preview of Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana. This service offers a powerful solution for cloud-native monitoring and visualizing Prometheus metrics.
Dashboards with Grafana enable you to create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure portal without additional cost and less administrative overhead compared to self-hosting Grafana or using managed Grafana services.
Start quickly with pre-built and community dashboards
Pre-built Grafana dashboards for Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Monitor, and dozens of other Azure resources are included and enabled by default. Additionally, you can import dashboards from thousands of publicly available Grafana community and open-source dashboards for Prometheus and Azure Monitor data sources. Built-in Grafana controls and capabilities allow you to apply a wide range of visualization panels and client-side transformations to Azure monitoring data to create custom dashboards.
Flexibility with open-source dashboards
Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana are fully compatible with open-source Grafana dashboards and are portable across any Grafana instances regardless of where they are hosted. Teams that create and author Grafana dashboards can share and re-use dashboards in Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, Azure Managed Grafana, self-hosted Grafana and more.
Manage dashboards with Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Dashboards with Grafana are native Azure resources supporting Azure RBAC to assign permissions, and automation via ARM and Bicep templates. The ability to view dashboards and data solely depends on users’ permissions on both the dashboard and the underlying data source being viewed.
Supported Scenarios
Dashboards with Grafana include Azure data sources only, starting with Azure Monitor metrics, logs, traces, alerts, Azure Resource Graph, and Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus metrics.
Support for Grafana Explore and Exemplars will be available in future releases.
When to use Azure Managed Grafana?
If you store your telemetry data in Azure, Dashboards with Grafana in the Azure portal is a great way to get started with Grafana. If you have additional data sources, or need full enterprise capabilities in Grafana, you can choose to upgrade to Azure Managed Grafana, a fully managed hosted service for the Grafana Enterprise software.
See a detailed solution comparison of Dashboards with Grafana and Azure Managed Grafana here.
Get started with Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana today.
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