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Azure Monitor includes functionality for the collection and analysis of log data (billed by data ingestion, retention, and export), monitoring of availability via web tests, export of platform logs data from Azure resources, collection of metrics, alerts, and notifications. Features of Azure Monitor that are automatically enabled such as collection of standard metrics and activity logs are provided at no cost. Also available at no additional cost are the advanced monitoring capabilities that use your ingested data (see Insights and core solutions).
Ingestion
Azure Monitor Logs charge for data ingested. We offer 3 log ingestion plans – Auxiliary Logs, Basic Logs, and Analytics Logs. A typical customer would use a combination of all plans for different tables in the workspace. For more details on the log plans see here.
1Data size is measured in GB (10^9 bytes). Details of its calculation are available for Log Analytics and Application Insights. 2Please refer to our documentation for more details and examples of billing scenarios and instances where charges are excluded. 3The first 5 GB/month per billing account in this tier are free. 4If a workspace has Microsoft Sentinel enabled, data ingestion for Auxiliary and Basic Logs is billed using Sentinel meters. If a workspace has Microsoft Sentinel enabled and is in a Sentinel simplified plan tier, data ingestion for Analytics Logs is billed using Sentinel meters. If Sentinel has data lake enabled, then query, search job and long-term retention on the workspace is billed using Sentinel meters.
| Not available | Plan | Capabilities | Pricing Tier | Price | Effective Per GB Price1 | Savings Over Pay-As-You-Go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auxiliary Logs4 | Ingestion into the Auxiliary Logs plan:30 days of retention included; can be extended up to 12 years 30 days interactive query; query older data using search jobs Full KQL on a single table and lookup to Analytics tables Summary rules | N/A | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- per GB | N/A | |
| Log processing2:Transforming and filtering data in the Azure Monitor cloud pipeline All standard log tables include log processing by default. | N/A | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- per GB | N/A | ||
| Basic Logs4 | Ingestion into the Basic Logs plan:30 days of retention included; can be extended up to 12 years 30 days interactive query; query older data using search jobs Fast query performance with full KQL on a single table and lookup to Analytics tables Alerting (Simple Log Alerts - Preview) Summary rules Log processing in the Azure Monitor cloud pipeline is included. | Pay-As-You-Go | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- per GB | N/A | |
| Analytics Logs | 31/90 days of retention included; can be extended up to 12 years Up to 2 years interactive query; query older data using search jobs Query cost included Fast query performance with full KQL support Out-of-the-box insights Alerting Summary rules Log processing in the Azure Monitor cloud pipeline is included. | Pay-As-You-Go3 | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- per GB | N/A | |
| −∣100GBperday∣- | 100 GB per day | −∣100GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣200GBperday∣- | 200 GB per day | −∣200GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣300GBperday∣- | 300 GB per day | −∣300GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣400GBperday∣- | 400 GB per day | −∣400GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣500GBperday∣- | 500 GB per day | −∣500GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣1,000GBperday∣- | 1,000 GB per day | −∣1,000GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣2,000GBperday∣- | 2,000 GB per day | −∣2,000GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣5,000GBperday∣- | 5,000 GB per day | −∣5,000GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣10,000GBperday∣- | 10,000 GB per day | −∣10,000GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣25,000GBperday∣- | 25,000 GB per day | −∣25,000GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- | ||
| −∣50,000GBperday∣- | 50,000 GB per day | −∣50,000GBperday∣- per day | −perGB∣- per GB | −perGB∣- |
Log Processing
Logs ingested into Azure Monitor can be processed with powerful, customer-defined data collection transformations.
| Feature | Case | Included Amounts | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Log Processing | Ingestion into Log Analytics: Auxiliary Logs tables | None | $- per GB1 |
| Ingestion into Log Analytics: Basic Logs or Analytics Logs tables (less than 50% of incoming data is filtered out) | Included. There is no log processing charge for data emitted to at least one Log Analytics workspace into Basic Logs or Analytics Logs tables in this case. | N/A | |
| Ingestion into Log Analytics: Basic Logs or Analytics Logs tables (more than 50% of incoming data is filtered out) | In this case, the data filtered beyond 50% is billed for log processing. Refer to our documentation for more details and examples. | $- per GB above the 50% threshold2 |
1Billing will start on October 1, 2025.
2Details on billing start date will be announced on Azure Updates. For current users of the feature, advanced notice will be given before billing starts.
Extended Retention
Data ingested into your Log Analytics workspace can be retained at no charge for:
- 30 days – data ingested into Basic Logs and Auxiliary Logs
- 31 days – data ingested into Analytics Logs
- 90 days – data ingested into Analytics Logs if Microsoft Sentinel is enabled on the workspace
- 90 days – data ingested into either classic or workspace-based Application Insights
Data retained beyond these no-charge periods will be charged for each GB of data retained for a month (pro-rated daily).
| Feature | Ingestion plan | Retention period | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interactive Retention | Analytics | Up to 2 years | $- per GB per month |
| Long-term Retention | Analytics, Basic, and Auxiliary | Up to 12 years | $- per GB per month |
Query
Querying Basic or Auxiliary Logs in Azure Monitor is chargeable per below. Querying Analytics Logs is free of charge.
Please note that there is no additional cost for Summary rules—you only pay for the query and the ingestion of results to the destination table. See more details.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Query | $- per GB of data scanned |
Search Jobs
Search jobs incur a cost for the data scanned plus the cost of ingesting the search results (per the normal Log Data Ingestion prices). Learn more about search jobs.
1Data scanned for Basic and Auxiliary tables will include the scanned GB from the whole search, while for Analytics tables it includes only the scanned GB of the search on the long-term retention period (exclude first 31/90 days, and extended data retention).
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Search Job | $- per GB of data scanned1 |
Export
Log Analytics Data Export bills per GB of data exported from the Log Analytics Workspace. Exporting data via Diagnostic Settings is covered below in the Platform Logs section of this page.
1Data Export on Auxiliary Logs is not yet enabled. 2The size of data exported by Log Analytics Data Export is the number of bytes in the exported JSON formatted data. 1 GB = 10^9 bytes.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Log Analytics Data Export1 | $- per GB2 |
Log Processing and Emission
Logs which are processed by Azure Monitor can be sent to an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) or Fabric destination. The billing for these logs is based on the volume of data, measured in gigabytes (GB), both for incoming data received and processed, and after processing, the volume of data emitted to the target destination.
Learn more about Azure Monitor to ADX/Fabric.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Log Processing | $- per GB |
| Log Emission from cloud pipeline to ADX or Fabric | $- per GB |
Platform Logs
Platform logs provide detailed diagnostic and auditing information for Azure resources. For platform logs, you pay for the volume of data processed and sent to each destination, at the prices listed below.
| Feature | Destination | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Data processed to stream platform logs | Logs Analytics workspace | Included in Log Analytics data ingestion charges |
| Storage or Event Hub1 | $- per GB2 | |
| Marketplace Partners | $- per GB2 |
1Exporting a select set of platform logs to Storage or Event Hub is available at no charge. See the list of freely exportable platform logs.
2Billing for streaming platform logs started on February 1, 2022. The size of the streamed Platform Logs is the number of bytes in the exported JSON formatted data. 1 GB = 10^9 bytes.
Workspace Replication
Log Analytics Workspace Replication increases the resilience of your workspace to regional issues. Please note that Auxiliary Logs are not currently supported in Log Analytics Workspace Replication.
Workspace Replication bills by the volume of data replicated.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Log Analytics Workspace Replication | $- per GB |
Restore
Restore operation makes a specific time range of data in a table available in the hot cache for high-performance queries. Maintaining restored logs incurs a pro-rated cost per day. There is no charge for querying against restored logs. Learn more about restore.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Data Restore | $- per GB per day (2 TB, 12 hour minimum)1 |
1If a restore is kept for less than 12 hours, the restore will be billed for a 12-hour minimum duration. If less than 2 TB of data is restored, the billed volume of restored data will be rounded up to 2 TB for each day (or partial day) that the restore is retained.
Web Tests
Application Insights has Standard web tests, URL Ping tests, and Multi-step web tests which enable you to verify the availability of your application.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard web tests | $- per scheduled test execution |
| Ping web tests | Free |
| Multi-step web tests1 | $- per test per month |
1Multi-step web tests are prorated daily for each test that is active, independent of the number of locations from which the test is run or the test execution frequency. Charges for alert rules and notifications are separate and charged per pricing below.
Platform Metrics
Platform metrics are free. Costs for advanced platform metrics are based on the number of samples ingested. All platform metrics are retained for 90 days.
| Feature | Free units included | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Metrics Ingestion1 | Unlimited | Free |
| Advanced Platform Metrics Ingestion2 | None | $-/10 million samples ingested |
| Platform metric queries3 | First 1,000,000 API calls per month | $-/1,000 API calls |
1Platform metrics are ingested for free per billing account and include select metrics originating from Azure resources, services, and first party solutions. See the list of standard metrics.
2Advanced platform metrics are only available for a subset of Azure resources. See details here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/metrics/metrics-advanced-platform).
3Costs for querying platform metrics, including advanced platform metrics, is the same.
Metrics in Azure Monitor Workspace
Costs for all metrics sent to an Azure Monitor Workspace, including Managed Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics, are based on the number of samples ingested and processed for queries. The metrics ingestion cost includes 18 months of data retention.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Metrics ingestion | $-/10 million samples ingested |
| Metrics queries1 | $-/10 million samples processed |
1Samples processed is the total number of data points queried using Prometheus Query Language for a given time range.
Export
The cost for exporting metrics through Data Collection Rules is based on the total number of metrics samples processed. Currently, only platform metrics are exportable with this service.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Metrics Export | $-/1,000 metrics samples processed* |
*Samples processed is the total number of metrics datapoints exported.
Alert rules
An alert rule is charged based on the type and number of signals it monitors. A signal can be a resource metric, a log, or an activity log. The cost of an alert rule that monitors multiple signals is the sum of the cost of monitoring each signal and any enabled features. Metric alert rules are billed per each time series monitored. Log alert rules are billed by the interval at which the query is executed. If the query results in multiple dimensions (at-scale log monitoring), there is an additional charge for each dimension (time series) that is evaluated. There is no charge for Activity Log alert rules or other alert rules when they are disabled. For more details on alert rule billing, see the Alerts section of the FAQ below.
| Alert Type | Free units included | Alert rule price(Monthly) | Time Series Price(Monthly) | Additional cost for metric alert w/ dynamic threshold1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity Log Alert2 | Limited to 100 rules per subscription | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Metric Alerts3, 4 | 10 monitored metric time-series per month | N/A | −∣- | −∣- |
| Managed service for Prometheus Metrics | Prometheus Metrics alerts are only charged the cost for the Prometheus Metrics query (see above). | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Log Alert (15 minute frequency) | First time-series is included in the log alert rule | −∣- | −∣- | N/A |
| Log Alert (10 minute frequency) | First time-series is included in the log alert rule | −∣- | −∣- | N/A |
| Log Alert (5 minute frequency) | First time-series is included in the log alert rule | −∣- | −∣- | N/A |
| Log Alert (1 minute frequency) | First time-series is included in the log alert rule | −∣- | −∣- | N/A |
| Simple Log Search Alert5, 6 | N/A | $- | N/A | N/A |
Alerts offered as part of Azure Security Center (ASC) are not currently charged.
1A dynamic alert is billed for the dynamic threshold capability and the underlying metric alert.
2Activity logs are available for a 90-day period at no charge. To retain activity log data beyond the 90-day period, activity log data can be routed to a storage account or event hubs. Corresponding charges will apply for storage and event hubs, respectively. No charges are incurred for API calls to pull activity log data.
3Price listed here represents the price of an alert rule monitoring a single metric time-series originating from a single resource.
4Pricing is applicable to the new generation metric alert rules available under Alerts, previous generation alert rules (Alerts Classic) will continue to be available at no charge.
5The cost of simple log search alerts and log alerts with a 1 minute frequency will be combined in the billing statement.
6When using basic logs for simple log search alerts, additional charges will apply based on the amount of data scanned, according to basic log pricing.
Notifications
Notifications are sent based on when an Alert rule triggers. You are billed based on the type and number of notifications you choose to send.
| Feature | Free units included | Price |
|---|---|---|
| ITSM connector create or update event | 1,000 events per month | $-/1,000 events |
| Emails | 1,000 emails per month | $-/100,000 emails |
| Push notification (to Azure Mobile App) | 1,000 notifications per month | $-/100,000 notifications |
| Secure web hooks | 1 secure web hook | $-/1,000,000 secure web hooks |
| Web hooks | 100,000 web hooks per month | $-/1,000,000 web hooks |
SMS and Voice calls See next table for SMS pricing
| Country Code | Voice Calls Price | SMS Price |
|---|---|---|
| United States (+1) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | 0-100 Notifications - Included Unlimited - −/SMS100+Notifications−-/SMS 100+ Notifications - −/SMS100+Notifications−-/SMS |
| Australia (+61) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Austria (+43) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Belgium (+32) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Brazil (+55) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Chile (+56) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| China (+86) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Czech Republic (+420) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Denmark (+45) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Estonia (+372) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Finland (+358) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| France (+33) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Germany (+49) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Hong Kong (+852) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| India (+91) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Ireland (+353) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Israel (+972) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Italy (+39) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Japan (+81) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Jordan (+962) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Luxembourg (+352) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Malaysia (+60) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Mexico (+52) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Netherlands (+31) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| New Zealand (+64) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Norway (+47) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Portugal (+351) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Romania (+40) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Russia (+7) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Singapore (+65) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| South Africa (+27) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| South Korea (+82) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Spain (+34) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Sweden (+46) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Switzerland (+41) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| Taiwan (+886) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| United Arab Emirates (+971) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
| United Kingdom (+44) | 0-10 Calls - Included Unlimited - −/call10+Calls−-/call 10+ Calls - −/call10+Calls−-/call | $-/SMS |
SCOM managed instance
Costs for Azure Monitor SCOM managed instance is based on number of endpoints.
Note: All charges associated with the consumption of Azure resources for running SCOM MI will be billed separately on a Pay-As-You-Go basis, in addition to the specified SCOM MI price below. See here for an architecture of the SCOM MI service hosted in Azure.
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Endpoints monitored with SCOM MI | $- per endpoint/month |
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Frequently asked questions
General
- There are no additional charges for Azure Monitor features that are in preview and not listed on the pricing page. Pricing for features that are in preview will be announced in the future and a notice provided prior to start of billing. Should you choose to continue using preview features after the notice period, you will be billed at the applicable rate.
- Our billable data volume is defined only as the size of the data that will be stored and excludes a set of standard columns and any JSON wrapper that was part of the data received for ingestion. Thus, the billable data volume is substantially smaller than the size of the entire JSON-packaged event, often less than 50%. To understand this calculation of billed data size when estimating costs learn more here.
- Yes; Azure Activity Logs is one such example of a data type that is free from ingestion charges. To learn more, read here.
Log Analytics
- Commitment Tiers allow you to reserve a fixed amount of daily data ingestion capacity for Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel for a fixed, predictable daily fee. You can upgrade your requested tier level at any time. However, the minimum commitment period before you can opt out or reduce your capacity reservation is 31 days.
- Moving to a larger tier level: you can upgrade your level at any time. Your new tier will be effective at 12:01 AM UST on the following day.
- Reducing your selected capacity reservation: you can reduce your tier level or opt out entirely from the Commitment Tier pricing after the first 31 days. This 31-day clock resets every time you make any change (increase or decrease) to your selected tier level. Your new pricing tier choice will be effective at 12:01 AM UST on the following day.
Learn more about Log Analytics pricing models and Commitment Tiers.
- You can select a retention period up to 730 days. The retention cost is calculated on a daily granularity based on the monthly price per GB stored beyond the free days of retention (31 days) except for Application Insights data, and workspaces that have Azure Sentinel enabled. Learn about options for managing data retention.
- Subscriptions that contained a Log Analytics workspace or Application Insights resource on April 2, 2018, or are linked to an Enterprise Agreement that started before February 1, 2019 and is still active, will continue to have access to use the legacy pricing tiers: Standalone (Per GB), and Per Node (OMS). Creating new workspaces in (or moving existing workspaces into) the Free Trial pricing tier is possible until July 1, 2022. Workspaces in the Free Trial pricing tier have daily data ingestion limited to 500 MB (except for security data types collected by Microsoft Defender for Servers) and the data retention is limited to seven days. The Free Trial pricing tier is intended only for evaluation purposes and has no Service Level Agreement. Workspaces in the Standalone or Per Node pricing tiers have user-configurable retention from 30 to 730 days. Learn more about legacy pricing tiers.
- The decision of whether workspaces with access to the legacy Per Node pricing tier are better off in that tier or in a current Pay-As-You-Go or Commitment Tier is often difficult for customers to assess. This involves understanding the trade-off between the fixed cost per monitored node in the Per Node pricing tier and its included data allocation of 500 MB/node/day and the cost of just paying for ingested data in the Pay-As-You-Go (Per GB) tier. To evaluate this, use the pricing tier recommendation query.
- Yes, workspaces created before October 1, 2016 can continue use the Standard or Premium pricing tiers but can switch at any time to a newer tier above. The pricing tier below have not been available to any new workspaces since October 1, 2016.
Not available Standard Premium Daily limit None None Retention period 1 month 12 months Customize longer retention periods Not available Not available Price 2.3perGB∣2.3 per GB 2.3perGB∣3.5 per GB
Application Insights
- The older pricing model offered two tiers—Basic, and Enterprise.
Enterprise tier customers can continue to stay on the older pricing model or can switch at any time to the above pricing model. All customer subscriptions with Application Insights enabled before April 2, 2018, are billed $- per GB for any data ingested by Application Insights. However, the only situation where this is advantageous if you’ve purchased the OMS Suite. In this case, each purchased unit of the Operations Management Suite E1 and E2 plans includes an entitlement to one node of the Enterprise tier of Application Insights. Each Application Insights Enterprise node includes up to 200 MB of Application Insights data ingested per day, with 90-day data retention at no additional cost.Not available Enterprise Base monthly price $- per node Included data 200 MB per node each day Additional data $- per GB - No. Customers who started using Application Insights before April 2, 2018, will continue to be billed $- per GB for any data ingested by Application Insights.
- You can set a daily cap on the amount of data that Application Insights will accept from your application, allowing you to control your costs. After the daily cap has been reached, excess data will be ignored for the remainder of the day (in UTC time), and then will resume normally at the start of the next day.
Additionally, you can use sampling to reduce the amount of data you send to Application Insights from your application.
Learn more about managing pricing and data volume in Application Insights. - Yes, you may incur additional network costs which will vary depending on the region the telemetry is coming from and where it is going. Refer to the Azure Bandwidth pricing for details.
Metrics
- Billing for Azure Metrics API queries is based on individual API requests used to fetch metric data from Azure resources. The quantity of requested metrics contributes to the cost of each API call.
Metrics Data plane API provides a certain number of free API (1M calls) per subscription per month, with any additional calls beyond the allowance billed according to the pricing specified on this Azure Monitor pricing page.
For the Data plane batch end point, you can query up to 50 resource IDs of same resource type in the same region and same subscription in a single API call. - Azure Platform Metrics: 93 days. To retain for longer, customers are encouraged to use Diagnostic Settings to export data to an LA workspace or Event Hub or Storage account where longer retention can be configured.
Azure Monitor Workspace metrics: 18 months.
Alerts
- The price of an alert rule which monitors the CPU utilization, and RAM usage (i.e. 2 metric time-series) for 10 VMs, and has dynamic threshold enabled, can be calculated as, Price of alert rule + Price of dynamic threshold. For this example, the price would be calculated as:
Total monthly price = (10 VMs * 2 metric time-series per VM – 10 free units) * price per metric time-series per month + [(10 VMs * 2 metric time-series per VM) *price per dynamic threshold per month] - The price of an alert rule which queries 1 resource event every 15-minutes can be calculated as,
Total monthly price = 1 resource * 1 log alert rule * price per 15-minute internal log alert rule per month - The price of an alert rule which monitors 10 VM resources at 1-minute frequency, using resource centric log monitoring, can be calculated as Price of alert rule + Price of number of dimensions.
Total monthly price = price per 1-minute log alert rule per month + ( 10 time series - 1 included free time series ) * price per 1-min interval monitored per month
Pricing of at scale log monitoring is applicable from Scheduled Query Rules API version 2021-02-01 - The migrated alert rules and corresponding migrated action groups (email, webhook, or LogicApp) will remain free of charge. The functionality you had with classic alerts including the ability to edit the threshold, aggregation type, and the aggregation granularity will continue to be available for free with your migrated alert rule. However, if you edit the migrated alert rule to use any of the new alert platform features, notifications or action types, a corresponding charge will apply. The following are examples of cases where you will incur a charge for your alert rule:
- Any new (non-migrated) alert rule created beyond free units, on the new Azure Monitor platform
- Any data ingested and retained beyond free units included by Azure Monitor
- Any multi-test web tests executed by Application Insights
- Any custom metrics stored beyond free units included in Azure Monitor
- Any migrated alert rules that are edited to use newer metric alert features like frequency, multiple resources/dimensions, Dynamic Thresholds, changing resource/signal, and so on
- Any migrated action groups that are edited to use newer notifications, or action types like SMS, Voice Call and/or ITSM integration
- Activity log, service health and resource health alert rules continue to be available at no charge.
- Alert notifications are charged separately based on the type of notification used.
- You will not be charged for the first 250 log alert rules with frequency 5 minutes or more for the duration of your Enterprise Agreement in effect at the above dates. Any alert rules above the 250 log alert rules limit or lower than 5 minutes frequency will be billed per the prices listed above.
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