azure-observability

azure-observability

Azure Observability Services

Services

Service Use When MCP Tools CLI

Azure Monitor Metrics, alerts, dashboards azure__monitor az monitor

Application Insights APM, distributed tracing azure__applicationinsights az monitor app-insights

Log Analytics Log queries, KQL azure__kusto az monitor log-analytics

Alerts Notifications, actions

az monitor alert

Workbooks Interactive reports azure__workbooks

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

Monitor

• azure__monitor with command monitor_metrics_query - Query metrics

• azure__monitor with command monitor_logs_query - Query logs with KQL

Application Insights

• azure__applicationinsights with command applicationinsights_component_list - List App Insights resources

Log Analytics

• azure__kusto with command kusto_cluster_list - List clusters

• azure__kusto with command kusto_query - Execute KQL queries

If Azure MCP is not enabled: Run /azure:setup or enable via /mcp.

CLI Reference

# List Log Analytics workspaces
az monitor log-analytics workspace list --output table

# Query logs with KQL
az monitor log-analytics query \
  --workspace WORKSPACE_ID \
  --analytics-query "AzureActivity | take 10"

# List Application Insights
az monitor app-insights component list --output table

# List alerts
az monitor alert list --output table

# Query metrics
az monitor metrics list \
  --resource RESOURCE_ID \
  --metric "Percentage CPU"

Common KQL Queries

// Recent errors
AppExceptions
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| project TimeGenerated, Message, StackTrace
| order by TimeGenerated desc

// Request performance
AppRequests
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| summarize avg(DurationMs), count() by Name
| order by avg_DurationMs desc

// Resource usage
AzureMetrics
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| where MetricName == "Percentage CPU"
| summarize avg(Average) by Resource

Monitoring Strategy

What to Monitor Service Metric/Log

Application errors App Insights Exceptions, failed requests

Performance App Insights Response time, dependencies

Infrastructure Azure Monitor CPU, memory, disk

Security Log Analytics Sign-ins, audit logs

Costs Cost Management Budget alerts

SDK Quick References

For programmatic access to monitoring services, see the condensed SDK guides:

• OpenTelemetry: Python | TypeScript | Python Exporter

• Monitor Query: Python | Java

• Log Ingestion: Python | Java

• App Insights Mgmt: .NET

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

• Application Insights setup -> appinsights-instrumentation skill

• KQL query patterns -> Log Analytics KQL documentation

• Alert configuration -> Azure Monitor alerts documentation

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