Cloud-native

Azure Monitor

Microsoft

Microsoft's native observability for Azure (and Arc-connected) resources — metrics, KQL-powered Log Analytics and App Insights APM.

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Category: Cloud-native
License: Proprietary
Deployment: SaaS
Cost: Medium
Free tier: Yes
Self-host effort: —
Maturity: Incumbent
Popularity: Default for the Azure ecosystem

The catch

Log ingestion at ~$2.50/GB is expensive and pricing is fragmented across Auxiliary/Basic/Analytics plans plus separate retention charges; deeply Azure-centric and KQL has a real learning curve.

Monitors

MetricsLogsTracesServersCloudK8sSynthetics

Capabilities

AlertingDashboardsAPI

Built for

EnterpriseSRE / DevOps

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