Numeric metrics that all Azure resources produce automatically every minute, needing no setup and costing nothing. Counters from the guest OS are excluded and require an agent.
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Terms in this definition
- ALL
A DAX function that ignores any filters and gives back every row of a table or every value of the named columns. Used within CALCULATE, it works as a modifier that clears filters, although REMOVEFILTERS states that intent more clearly where it is available.
- Agent
A specialised form of Microsoft Copilot set up for one particular job, pairing instructions with knowledge and skills. You can create one in Copilot Studio, SharePoint or Agent Builder, and administrators control them from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Related terms
- AllMetrics
Category in a diagnostic setting that sends out a resource's platform metrics. If only log categories are chosen, metrics are not exported.
- Azure Monitor Metrics
Part of the Azure Monitor data platform that stores numeric values as time series. Platform metrics are gathered without any setup and retained for 93 days.
- AzureMetrics
When a diagnostic setting exports platform metrics with AllMetrics ticked, they arrive in this Log Analytics table.
- Storage insights
An Azure Monitor insight that brings storage account capacity, availability and performance together in one view, built from platform metrics, free and requiring no setup.