Azure Monitor provides visibility into the health and performance of Azure SQL Database instances, allowing users to collect metrics and logs from databases and monitor them with Azure's monitoring and reporting tools. The platform uses dedicated data stores to collect metrics and logs from Azure resources, retaining metrics for 93 days by default. To take advantage of all of Azure Monitor's features, database instances must be configured to write metrics and logs to a Log Analytics workspace. Users can enable diagnostics and auditing on databases to start collecting database metrics and logs, and set up auditing policies at either the server or database level. Once enabled, users can leverage all of Azure Monitor's monitoring and reporting capabilities to view and analyze database metrics and logs, including using the Azure SQL Analytics monitoring solution, creating custom alerts, and reviewing audit logs in Log Analytics.