KayodePrince introduces the general availability of Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, a new solution for building and managing cloud-native monitoring dashboards directly in the Azure portal.

General Availability of Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana

Azure has announced the general availability of Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, offering cloud-native monitoring and visualization for users’ Azure data. This release enables:

  • Direct creation and editing of Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal, reducing administrative overhead compared to managing Grafana instances independently or paying for managed services.
  • Pre-built dashboards for Azure services such as Kubernetes, Application Insights, Storage Accounts, Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, OpenTelemetry metrics, and more.
  • Import capabilities from thousands of community and open-source dashboards, supporting data sources like Prometheus, Azure Monitor (metrics, logs, traces, Resource Graph), and Azure Data Explorer.

Key Features

  • Open-source compatibility: Dashboards are portable across all Grafana instances, native to Azure, and support Azure RBAC permissions and ARM/Bicep template automation.
  • Regional access: Create and manage Grafana dashboards in over 30 Azure regions.
  • Language selection: End users can select their preferred language in the Azure Portal for Grafana UI.
  • Automation: Manage dashboard resources as ARM entities, auto-generate ARM templates for deployment and management.

Enhanced Monitoring with Grafana Explore

  • Use Grafana Explore for ad-hoc metric queries and visualization integration.
  • Out-of-the-box support for:
    • Additional Azure Kubernetes Service configurations, including AKS Automatic and AKS Arc clusters
    • Azure Container Apps dashboards
    • Microsoft Foundry and Agent Framework
    • High Performance Computing dashboards, including GPU monitoring
    • OpenTelemetry metrics
    • Application Insights monitoring

Upgrade Path to Azure Managed Grafana

For users needing advanced enterprise Grafana capabilities or integration with third-party sources, Azure Managed Grafana is available as a fully managed hosted service for Grafana Enterprise.

Supported Azure Resources and Integrations

  • Kubernetes (AKS)
  • Application Insights
  • Storage Accounts
  • Cosmos DB
  • Azure PostgreSQL
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • OpenTelemetry & Prometheus Metrics

Automation and Security

  • Dashboard management with Azure Resource Manager and Bicep templates
  • Azure RBAC support for controlled dashboard access

Community and Support

  • Access thousands of community dashboards (Grafana community dashboards)
  • Engage with Azure Observability Blog for updates and best practices

Author

KayodePrince - Microsoft Azure Observability Blog Contributor

Last updated: Nov 13, 2025

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