Azure Monitor pricing
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Azure Monitor is a platform capability for monitoring your Azure resources. Azure Monitor allows you to collect granular performance and utilization data, activity and diagnostics logs, and notifications from your Azure resources in a consistent manner. You can use the Azure portal to view and analyze the monitoring data and setup automated actions based on alerts. In addition, Azure Monitor integrates with other analytics and monitoring tools such as Log Analytics, Application Insights, and other third-party tools, giving you flexibility to use this data in different ways.
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment, or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Azure Germany is available to customers and partners who have already purchased this, doing business in the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), and in the United Kingdom (UK). It provides data residency in Germany with additional levels of control and data protection. You can also sign up for a free Azure trial.
Pricing details
Log Analytics
Log Analytics is billed per gigabyte (GB) of data ingested into the service.
| Feature | Free Units Included | Price |
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| Data Ingestion | 5 GB per customer per month1 | $- per GB |
| Data Retention | 31 days2 | $- per GB per month |
Application Insights
Application Insights is billed based on the volume of telemetry data that your application sends and the number of web tests that you choose to run. The telemetry data is billed per Azure Log Analytics data ingestion rates.
| Feature | Free Units Included | Price |
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| Data Ingestion | 5 GB per customer per month1 | $- per GB |
| Data Retention | 90 days3 | N/A |
| Multi-step web tests 4, 5 | None | $- per test per month |
| Ping web tests5 | Unlimited | Free |
Metrics
A metric represents a set of time-series. You are billed based on the number of time-series monitored and API calls made.
Currently, there are no charges for metric queries, and custom metrics. Charges for metric queries, and custom metrics will go into effect on April 1, 2019.
| Feature | FREE UNITS INCLUDED | Price |
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| Standard Metrics6 | Unlimited | Free |
| Custom Metrics7 | 150 MB per month |
$0.258/MB: 150-100,000 MB
$0.151/MB: 100,000-250,000 MB $0.061/MB: above 250,000 MB |
| Metric queries8 | 1,000,000 standard API calls per month | $-/1,000 standard API calls |
Health Monitoring
Health monitoring is billed for the number of metric time-series monitored by health criteria for an Azure virtual machine. This includes multi-dimensional metrics such as logical disk free space, logical disk queue length etc.
Prior to April 1, 2019, there are no charges for health monitoring. On April 1, 2019, charges for health monitoring will go into effect per the pricing plan below.
| Feature | FREE UNITS INCLUDED | Price |
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| Health Criteria | None | $- per monitored metric time-series per month |
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.
| Alert Signal | FREE UNITS INCLUDED | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Metrics9, 10 | 10 monitored metric time-series per month | $- per metric time-series monitored per month |
| Log12 | None |
15-min interval (or greater): $- per log monitored per month 10-min interval: $- per log monitored per month 5-min interval: $- per log monitored per month |
| Activity Log | Unlimited | Free |
| Dynamic threshold11 | None | $- per dynamic threshold per month |
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 event12 | 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 |
| Web hooks | 100,000 web hooks per month | $-/1,000,000 web hooks |
| Voice call | 10 voice calls per month | $-/voice call |
| SMS |
| Country Code | FREE UNITS INCLUDED | Price |
|---|---|---|
| United States (+1) | 100 SMS per month | $-/SMS |
| Australia (+61) | – | $-/SMS |
| Brazil (+55) | – | $-/SMS |
| China (+86) | – | $-/SMS |
| France (+33) | – | $-/SMS |
| Germany (+49) | – | $-/SMS |
| Hong Kong (+852) | – | $-/SMS |
| India (+91) | – | $-/SMS |
| Ireland (+353) | – | $-/SMS |
| Japan (+81) | – | $-/SMS |
| Netherlands (+31) | – | $-/SMS |
| Singapore (+65) | – | $-/SMS |
| South Africa (+27) | – | $-/SMS |
| South Korea (+82) | – | $-/SMS |
| United Kingdom (+44) | – | $-/SMS |
Diagnostic Logs
Diagnostic logs can be routed to a storage account, Log Analytics workspace, or event hub. Corresponding charges will apply for storage, Log Analytics, and event hubs, respectively.
Support & SLA
- SLA for individual features is applicable once the corresponding pricing model goes into effect. Learn more
Log Analytics FAQs
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Customers who started using Log Analytics on the free tier before April 2, 2018 can continue to stay on the old free tier. The old free tier has a 500 MB limit on the amount of data collected daily and doesn’t allow for data retention periods longer than 7 days. The new pricing model does not have any limits on the amount of data collected daily and allows you to retain your log data for up to two years. Customers on the old pricing model can switch at any time to the new pricing model above.
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Yes. You can remain on the Insight & Analytics per node pricing model to use Log Analytics.
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To estimate the impact of the per GB pricing model, visit our documentation on the Usage and Estimated costs page. Note that in the new pricing model, data ingestion and retention are both priced differently depending on the region in which you have your Log Analytics workspace. Be sure to account for this in making any estimated cost comparison. Also, if you purchased the OMS Suite, be sure to talk to your account representative, to fully understand the impact of any change.
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Please follow the steps listed on the documentation page to move to the new pricing model.
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Yes, Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers on the Insight & Analytics per node pricing model can continue to access the per node pricing plans on any new subscriptions that they link to their existing EA.
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Yes, customers who started using Log Analytics before October 1, 2016 continue to exist on an older pricing model and can switch at any time to the new models above. The pricing models below have not been available to any new workspaces since October 1, 2016.
Standard Premium Daily limit None None Retention period 1 month 12 months Customize longer retention periods Not available Not available Price $2.3 per GB $3.5 per GB -
You can select a retention period ranging from 30 to 730 days. The retention cost calculation is done on a daily granularity based on the monthly price per GB being stored beyond the 31 days of included retention.
Application Insights FAQs
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The older pricing model offered two tiers—Basic, and Enterprise. Starting April 2, 2018, customers on the Basic tier will get billed using the above pricing model which offers more features at no incremental cost. Customers on the Basic tier, will continue receive a 1 GB per resource per month of free data allowance in addition to the 5 GB per subscription per month of free data allowance offered by the Azure Log Analytics service. Starting April 2, 2018, Basic customers will also have access to Continuous Export and the Application Insights Connector for Operations Management Suite Log Analytics. Also, note that in the new plan, you can use your monthly credit as a Visual Studio subscriber to pay for Application Insights.
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.
Enterprise Base monthly price $- per node Included data 200 MB per node each day Additional data $- per GB Data retention (raw and aggregated data) 90 days Application Performance Management (APM) and Analytics features Included Continuous export Unlimited Multi-step web tests $- per test per month -
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.
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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.
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A node is a physical or virtual machine, or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) instance that's hosting your app. For example, if your application runs on three Azure App Service instances and one virtual machine, then you have four nodes hosting your application. We count the number of distinct nodes sending telemetry data each hour. If a node doesn't send any telemetry during a particular hour, then it's not counted. The monthly per-node pricing above assumes a node is sending telemetry every hour of the month, so if there are periods of inactivity for your application during the month, the actual charge will be lower.
As your application scales up or down, such as adding additional web servers during peak periods of activity, Application Insights Enterprise charges will scale up or down as well.
There are a few situations that are excluded from node counting (though data volume is always counted):
- Developer workstations running an application during debugging are not counted as nodes.
- Using the JavaScript browser client SDK (or certain other SDKs that don't report “roleInstance”) doesn't count your end-users’ machines as nodes.
- Using the HockeyApp bridge app doesn't count each mobile device monitored by HockeyApp as nodes.
What if I use the same node for multiple applications that I’m monitoring? That’s no problem. We only count the unique nodes sending telemetry data within your Azure subscription (billing account). For instance, if you have five separate websites running on the same physical server, and each website is configured with Application Insights Enterprise (charged per node), then collectively these will count as one node.
You can also have applications using Application Insights Basic (charged per GB) in the same Azure subscription, and this won't affect the node counting for the applications that use Application Insights Enterprise.
How does the daily 200 MB data work in Application Insights Enterprise? When you choose the Enterprise pricing option, your application gets a daily allowance of data based on the number of nodes sending telemetry. So, if you have five nodes sending data, you will have a pooled allowance of 1 GB per day for your application (as defined by the Application Insights resource you set up). It doesn’t matter if certain nodes are sending more data than other nodes because the included data is shared across all nodes for a given Azure subscription. If, on a given day, you send more data than is included in your daily data pool, the per-GB overage data charges apply. Unused data within your daily allowance doesn't roll over.
The daily pooled data allowance is calculated as the number of hours in the day that each node is sending telemetry divided by 24 times 200 MB. So, if you have four nodes sending telemetry during 15 of the 24 hours in the day, the included data for that day would be ((4 x 15) / 24) x 200 MB = 500 MB.
If you choose the Enterprise pricing option for multiple applications within the same Azure subscription, the daily allowance of data is shared across those applications. This daily allowance is not shared with applications for which you have chosen the Basic pricing option.
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Yes. Here are the team Dev/Test offers available today:
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If you have questions about how pricing works for Application Insights, feel free to post a question in our forum.
Alerts FAQs
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Activity log, service health and resource health alert rules continue to be available at no charge.
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Alert notifications are charged separately based on the type of notification used.
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The pricing listed above is applicable to the new Alerts platform. If you transition your existing alert rules from the Classic Alerts platform to the new platform the pricing listed above will be applicable.
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Existing OMS Log Alerts customers will not be charged for the first 250 log alert rules. Any alert rules above the 250 log alert rules limit will be billed per the prices listed above.
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Existing OMS log alert customers can create Azure log alert rules with any frequency up to the 250-log alert rules limit. Log alert rules created beyond the 250-log alert rule limit will be billed per the prices listed above.
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If you are an existing Application Insights customer, any existing metric and web test alert rules which are migrated to new alerts platform will continue to be free. Any new metric and web test alerts will be charged at the applicable rates of a metric alert rule. Application Insights log alert rules will be charged as per pricing above.