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Azure Observability

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The azure-observability skill provides comprehensive monitoring and observability capabilities for Azure services, enabling users to query metrics, logs, and application insights through CLI commands and KQL queries. It supports monitoring application errors, performance, infrastructure, security, and costs, making it suitable for DevOps engineers, cloud administrators, and developers managing Azure resources. The skill facilitates both manual querying and programmatic access, offering detailed insights into Azure environments to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues.

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill 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:

Service Details

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