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Microsoft Azure Monitor Plans Pricing

Name: Microsoft Azure Monitor Plans Pricing
Creator: Azure Monitor
Keywords: Observability, Monitoring, Logging, Metrics, Microsoft Azure

Azure Monitor is metered consumption-based across logs (Analytics and Basic), metrics (custom and platform), alerts, and Application Insights. Log Analytics offers Pay-As-You-Go and Commitment Tiers (starting at 100 GB/day) for discounts. Platform metrics are free; custom metrics charge per million samples. Application Insights data is stored in a Log Analytics workspace and uses the same pricing model.

Microsoft Azure Monitor Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Azure Monitor on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 7 plans, covering usage-based and subscription tiers, with named plans including Analytics Logs - Pay-As-You-Go, Analytics Logs - Commitment Tiers, Basic Logs, Log Archive, Custom Metrics, and 2 more.

Tagged areas include Observability, Monitoring, Logging, Metrics, and Microsoft Azure.

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Plans

Analytics Logs - Pay-As-You-Go usage-based

Default ingestion plan for queryable Analytics Logs. First 5 GB/month per workspace free; 31-day retention included; thereafter per-GB ingestion plus per-GB-month retention.

Free ingestion (first 5 GB / month) (gb · month) 0.00 USD

Analytics Logs ingestion (gb · month) ~$2.30 per GB ingested (region-varying) USD

Retention beyond 31 days (gb · month) see Azure pricing page (per GB-month retained) USD

Full KQL query support
31-day free retention (90 days for Sentinel-enabled / App Insights)
Pay only for what you use

Analytics Logs - Commitment Tiers subscription

Daily commitment in GB/day (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000) for predictable flat fee with discount vs Pay-As-You-Go.

Commitment - 100 GB / day (gb_per_day · day) see Azure pricing page (~15% discount vs PAYG) USD

Commitment - 200/300/400/500/1000/2000/5000 GB / day (gb_per_day · day) see Azure pricing page (deeper discount with higher commit) USD

Predictable fixed daily fee
Discount up to ~30% vs PAYG at higher tiers
Overage at PAYG rate

Basic Logs usage-based

Lower-cost log table type for verbose, low-query data. Limited KQL operators; 30-day retention included; per-search query cost.

Basic Logs ingestion (gb · month) ~$0.50 per GB ingested USD

Basic Logs search query (gb · usage) see Azure pricing page (per-GB scanned) USD

Cheaper ingestion
30-day retention (then archive)
Limited KQL (no joins on Basic table)

Log Archive usage-based

Archive tier for Analytics or Basic Logs up to 12 years. Lower per-GB-month than hot retention; restore charged separately.

Archive storage (gb · month) see Azure pricing page (per GB-month archived) USD

Archive restore (gb · usage) see Azure pricing page USD

Up to 12 years archive
Restore on demand
Lower per-GB-month than hot retention

Custom Metrics usage-based

Per-million-samples ingestion for application/custom metrics. Platform metrics are free.

Custom metric samples (sample · usage) 0.16 per 10 million samples USD

90-day retention
Custom dimensions
Platform metrics are free

Alerts usage-based

Per-time-series and per-rule pricing for metric alerts, log alerts, and dynamic thresholds. Action group notifications charged separately (email, SMS, push, voice).

Metric alert rules (time_series · month) see Azure pricing page (per time-series monitored) USD

Log alert rules (rule · month) see Azure pricing page (per rule, varies by frequency) USD

Notification (SMS/voice/push/email) (notification · usage) see Azure pricing page USD

Metric, log, and dynamic-threshold alerts
Action groups for notifications and automation

Application Insights usage-based

Workspace-based App Insights data is stored and billed via the Log Analytics workspace where the resource lives. 90-day retention free for App Insights data.

Telemetry ingestion (per workspace pricing) (gb · month) priced via Log Analytics workspace tier USD

Live metrics, distributed tracing, snapshot debugger
90-day retention free
Same Commitment Tier discounts as workspace

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