Microsoft Azure

Overview

Datadog’s Azure integration enables the collection of metrics and logs from your Azure environment. The configuration options are different depending on which Datadog site your organization is using:

All Sites: All Datadog sites can use the App Registration credential process for implementing metric collection, and the Event Hub setup for sending Azure Platform Logs. To the extent that the Azure Integration is used to monitor Azure China, all use of Datadog Services in (or in connection with environments within) mainland China is subject to the disclaimer published in the Restricted Service Locations section on our website.

US3: If your organization is on the Datadog US3 site, use the Azure Native integration to streamline management and data collection for your Azure environment. Datadog recommends using this method when possible. Setup entails creating a Datadog resource in Azure to link your Azure subscriptions to your Datadog organization. This replaces the App Registration credential process for metric collection and Event Hub setup for log forwarding.

Connect to Microsoft Azure to:

Get metrics from Azure VMs with or without installing the Datadog Agent.
Collect standard Azure Monitor metrics for all Azure services: Application Gateway, App Service (Web & Mobile), Batch Service, Event Hub, IoT Hub, Logic App, Redis Cache, Server Farm (App Service Plan), SQL Database, SQL Elastic Pool, Virtual Machine Scale Set, and many more.
Tag your Azure metrics with Azure-specific information about the associated resource, such as region, resource group, and tags defined in your Azure environment.
Get Datadog generated metrics to provide unique insights into your Azure environment.
Correlate data from your Azure applications across logs, metrics, APM tracing, user activity, and more within your Datadog organization.

Datadog's Azure integration is built to collect all metrics from Azure Monitor. Datadog strives to continually update the docs to show every sub-integration, but cloud services rapidly release new metrics and services so the list of integrations can sometimes lag.
The azure.*.status and azure.*.count metrics are generated by Datadog from Azure Resource Health. For more information, see Azure Status and Count Metrics.

Integration	Description
Analysis Services	A service that provides data models in the cloud.
API Management	A service to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
App Service	A service for deploying and scaling web, mobile, API and business logic application.
App Service Environment	A service that provides an environment for securely running App Service apps at high scale.
App Service Plan	A set of compute resources for a web app to run.
Application Gateway	A web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications.
Automation	A service that provides automation and configuration management across your environments.
Batch Service	Managed task scheduler and processor.
Cognitive Services	APIs, SDKs, and services available to help build applications without AI or data science knowledge.
Container Instances	A service to deploy containers without the need to provision or manage the underlying infrastructure.
Container Service	A production-ready Kubernetes, DC/OS, or Docker Swarm cluster.
Cosmos DB	A database service that supports document, key-value, wide-column, and graph databases.
Customer Insights	Enables organizations to bring together data sets to build a 360° view of their customers.
Data Explorer	Fast and highly scalable data exploration service.
Data Factory	A service to compose data storage, movement, and processing services into automated data pipelines.
Data Lake Analytics	An analytics job service that simplifies big data.
Data Lake Store	A no limits data lake that powers big data analytics.
Database for MariaDB	A service that provides fully managed, enterprise-ready community MariaDB database.
Event Grid	An event routing service that allows for uniform event consumption using a publish-subscribe model.
Event Hub	Large scale data stream managed service.
ExpressRoute	A service to extend your on-premises networks into the cloud.
Firewall	Cloud-native network security to protect your Azure Virtual Network resources.
Functions	A service for running serverless code in response to event triggers.
HDInsights	A cloud service that processes massive amounts of data.
IOT Hub	Connect, monitor, and manage billions of IOT assets.
Key Vault	A service to safeguard and manage cryptographic keys and secrets used by cloud applications and services.
Load Balancer	Scale your applications and create high availability for your services.
Logic App	Build powerful integration solutions.
Machine Learning	Enterprise-grade machine learning service to build and deploy models faster.
Network Interfaces	Enables VM communication with internet, Azure, and on-premises resources.
Notification Hubs	A push engine that allows you to send notifications to any platform from any backend.
Public IP Address	A resource that enables inbound communication and outbound connectivity from the Internet.
Recovery Service Vault	An entity that stores the backups and recovery points created over time.
Redis Cache	Managed data cache.
Relay	Securely expose services that run in your corporate network to the public cloud.
Storage	Storage for blobs, files, queues, and tables.
Stream Analytics	An event-processing engine to examine high volumes of data streaming from devices.
SQL Database	Highly scalable relational database in the cloud.
SQL Database Elastic Pool	Manage the performance of multiple database.
Synapse Analytics	An analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics.
Usage and Quotas	Follow your Azure usage.
Virtual Machine	Virtual machine management service.
Virtual Machine Scale Set	Deploy, manage, and autoscale a set of identical VMs.
Virtual Network	Allow Azure resources to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks.

Setup

Automatic

All sites:
See the Standard Azure Integration Programmatic Management Guide for instructions on automatically setting up the standard Datadog integration with Azure. You can set up the integration through Terraform or the Azure CLI, deploy the Datadog Agent natively in Azure through the Datadog Azure VM Extension, and run automated scripts to enable log collection.

US3:
See the Azure Native Integration Programmatic Management Guide for instructions on using Terraform to set up Datadog’s Azure Native integration with the Datadog resource in Azure.

Manual

All sites:
See the Standard Azure Integration Manual Setup Guide for instructions on manually setting up the Datadog integration with Azure through the Azure portal or CLI, as well as deploying the Datadog Agent directly in Azure with the VM extension or AKS Cluster extension.

US3:
See the Azure Native Integration Manual Setup Guide for instructions on manually setting up the Azure Native integration with Datadog. This includes creation of the Datadog resource in Azure, deploying the Datadog Agent directly in Azure with the VM extension or AKS Cluster extension, and optional configuration of single sign-on (SSO).

Log collection

All sites:
See the Send Azure Logs to Datadog guide for instructions on sending your Azure logs to Datadog. You can choose between an automatic or manual process to enable log collection through the Datadog-Azure function and an Azure Event Hub. You can also use an Azure Blob Storage Function to collect logs from all of your Azure App Services.

US3:
See the Send Azure Logs with the Datadog Resource guide for instructions on sending your subscription level, Azure resource, and Azure Active Directory logs to Datadog.

Data Collected

Metrics

All standard Azure Monitor metrics plus unique Datadog generated metrics.

For a detailed list of metrics, select the appropriate Azure service in the overview section. To exclude certain VMs from metric collection, see Azure VM Exclusion.

Events

The Azure integration automatically collects Azure Service Health events. To view these in Datadog, navigate to the Event explorer and filter for the Azure Service Health namespace.

Service Checks

The Azure integration does not include any service checks.

Integration	Namespace	Datadog Tag Keys
All Azure integrations	All	`cloud_provider`, `region`, `kind`, `type`, `name`, `resource_group`, `tenant_name`, `subscription_name`, `subscription_id`, `status` (if applicable)
Azure VM integrations	`azure.vm.*`	`host`, `size`, `operating_system`, `availability_zone`
Azure App Service Plans	`azure.web_serverfarms.*`	`per_site_scaling`, `plan_size`, `plan_tier`, `operating_system`
Azure App Services Web Apps & Functions	`azure.app_services.`, `azure.functions.`	`operating_system`, `server_farm_id`, `reserved`, `usage_state`, `fx_version` (linux web apps only), `php_version`, `dot_net_framework_version`, `java_version`, `node_version`, `python_version`
Azure SQL DB	`azure.sql_servers_databases.*`	`license_type`, `max_size_mb`, `server_name`, `role`, `zone_redundant`. For replication Links only: `state` `primary_server_name` `primary_server_region` `secondary_server_name` `secondary_server_region`
Azure Load Balancer	`azure.network_loadbalancers.*`	`sku_name`
Azure Usage and Quota	`azure.usage.*`	`usage_category`, `usage_name`