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Vasil Kaftandzhiev
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826
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English
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Summary

Microsoft Azure Observability in Grafana Cloud offers a unified and scalable solution to streamline monitoring of Azure environments, addressing common challenges like fragmented data and complex configurations. The solution enables organizations to integrate Azure metrics and logs into a single platform for actionable insights, offering serverless direct connections and flexible setup options, including Grafana Alloy for fully managed integration. It features prebuilt dashboards for immediate insights into critical services, centralized logs for efficient troubleshooting, and out-of-the-box alerts based on best practices. Additionally, it supports cross-cloud integration, allowing seamless unification of multi-cloud monitoring efforts using PromQL-based queries, and is part of the broader Cloud Provider Observability application aimed at simplifying observability across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Future enhancements include serverless log and metric streaming and Terraform integration for scalable management, making Grafana Cloud an accessible and efficient choice for organizations looking to optimize their Azure monitoring with a free tier available for easy onboarding.