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What's new with Azure Monitor plugin for Grafana

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shemers
Brass Contributor
Nov 08, 2020

We are closely working with Grafana to provide you with new Azure Monitor capabilities when using Grafana's dashboards. The following list consists of the upcoming features and bug fixes.

 



7.1.4

Features/Enhancements:

      • Azure App Insights Alert error - tsdb.HandleRequest() failed to convert dataframe "" to tsdb.TimeSeriesSlice. #26897
      • AzureMonitor: map more units. #26990
      • Azuremonitor: do not set unit if literal "Unspecified". #26839

 

7.1.5

Bug Fixes:

      • AzureMonitor: fix panic introduced in 7.1.4 when unit was unspecified and alias was used. #27113

 

7.2.0

Features/Enhancements:

      • AzureMonitor: select plugin route from cloudname. #27273

Bug Fixes:

      • AzureMonitor: Change filterDimensions property to match what is stored. #27459
      • Azure/Insights: Fix handling of legacy dimension values. #27513

 

7.3.0 (beta)

Features/Enhancements:

      • AzureMonitor: Pass through null values instead of setting 0. #28126

Bug Fixes:

      • Azure Analytics: FormatAs Time series groups bool columns wrong. #27713
      • Azure: Fixes cancellation of requests with different Azure sources. #28180

 

You can also find our full changelog here: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md 

Updated Apr 08, 2022
Version 2.0
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2 Comments

  • shemers's avatar
    shemers
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 30, 2020

    Hi David,
    Thanks for reaching out, I will take your feedback and work to improve the article,
    Basically, Data source set up did not change so the article you are using is still applicable.

    To assist you in the meanwhile I can suggest the following:
    1) You can review Microsoft's article on how to set-up Azure monitor plugin on Grafana, 
    Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Docs 

    2) To only set-up Application insights with Grafana, you don't actually need to connect the subscription, it will be easier to just Create an API Key with your AppInsight resource e.g: in Azure portal --> go to the AppInsight Resource --> "API Access" tab -->  Click "Create API Key" --> Copy the created value + "Application ID" to the Grafana data source. you can leave the other values empty --> Click "Save & Test" and you are done. 

    3) If you need to set up the subscription, what seems to be missing is setting up an SPN. Please review this article.

    I hope this helps,
    -Shemer.

  • kenstoned's avatar
    kenstoned
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 13, 2020

    Hi Shemer,

     
    I'm trying to get Application Insights working in Grafana, but I can't seem to find an up-to-date set of instructions on how to install it. The plug-in doc (https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource) shows a completely different setup flow than what I'm seeing in my dashboard. (I'm running 7.x of Grafana). That plugin says the docs haven't been updated in 2 years.
     
    Basically, I can't get past the step where it looks up the Subscription. I'm guessing I've got my app set up incorrectly, but the docs on the Grafana plug-in link to setup steps that are vastly different now.
     
    Can you point me in the right direction?