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Azure Monitor is a platform function used to monitor and control Azure resources. Azure Monitor allows you to gather detailed performance and usage data, activity and diagnostic logs, and notifications, in a consistent way. You can use Azure portal to view and analyze monitoring data and set up alert-based automated actions.

Pricing Details

Log Analytics

There are two ways to pay for the Azure Monitor Log Analytics service: Capacity Reservations and Pay-As-You-Go.

Capacity Reservations

With Capacity Reservations you are billed a fixed predictable fee based on your selected capacity reservation.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.
100 GB per day ¥ 1994.5 per day
200 GB per day ¥ 3744.77 per day
300 GB per day ¥ 5495.04 per day
400 GB per day ¥ 7163.9 per day
500 GB per day ¥ 8802.24 per day
1If amount of data ingested into your workspace exceeds selected daily capacity Reservation, then additional data is charged at Pay-As-You-Go rates listed below.


With Pay-As-You-Go pricing, you are billed per gigabyte (GB) of data ingested into the Log Analytics workspace.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.
Features Free units included Price
Data Ingestion 5 GB per customer per month3 ¥23.4/GB
3The first 5 GB of data ingested per customer to the Azure Monitor Log Analytics service every month is offered free.

Data Retention

Every GB of data ingested into your Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace can be retained at no charge for up to first 31 days. Data retained beyond first 31 days will be charged per the data retention prices listed below.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.
Features Free units included Price
Data Retention 31 days4 ¥1.02/month
4For Azure Sentinel enabled workspaces the data is retained for free for 90 days.

Application Insights

Application Insights is billed based on the volume of telemetry data that your application sends and the number of web tests that you choose to run. The telemetry data is billed per Azure Log Analytics data ingestion rates.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.
Features Free units included Price
Data Ingestion 5 GB per customer per month1 ¥23.4/GB
Data Retention 90 days N/A
Ping web test2 Unlimited Free
1.Every GB of data ingested by Application Insights is retained at no charge for 90 days.

2.Charges for notifications are separate and charged per pricing below.


Metrics show a range of time series and are billed according to the number of time series and the number of API calls performed.

Metrics queries are free before August 1, 2018. Metrics queries will be billed at the rates below from August 1, 2018 onward.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.
Features Includes free units Pricing
Metrics queries 1,000,000 standard API calls per month ¥ 0.101/1,000 standard API calls

Billed on the basis of the number of standard API calls per metrics query. A standard API call analyzes 1,440 data points (1,440 is also the total number of data points that can be stored per metric per day). If the API call analyzes over 1,440 data points, it will be calculated as more than one standard API call. If the API call analyzes less than 1,440 data points, it will be counted as less than one API call. The number of standard API calls is calculated on a daily basis by dividing the number of data points analyzed per day by 1,440.

  • Metrics for 90 days are provided at no charge. If you need to retain more than 90 days of metrics data, you can route the metrics data to a storage account or Event Hub, and you will then be billed for the corresponding Storage or Event Hubs. You will also be billed for the corresponding API calls for metrics queries required to route the data.


API calls that return 2,000 data points will be calculated as 2,000/1,440 = 1.4 standard API calls.

API calls that return 200 data points will be calculated as 200/1,440 = 0.1 standard API calls.

Tracking five metrics from 100 virtual machines at a granularity level of one minute will produce 720,000 data points, i.e. (720,000/1,440)500 standard API calls per day.

Alert rules

An alert rule is charged based on the type and number of signals it monitors. A signal can be a resource metric, a log or an activity log. The cost of an alert rule that monitors multiple signals is the sum of the cost of monitoring each signal and any enabled features.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.
Metrics1,2 10 monitored metric time-series per month ￥1.02 per metric time-series monitored per month
Log None 15-min interval (or greater): ￥5.09 per log monitored per month
10-min interval: ￥10.18 per log monitored per month
5-min interval: ￥15.26 per log monitored per month
Activity Log Unlimited Free
Dynamic threshold3 None ￥1.02 per dynamic threshold per month
1.Price listed here represents the price of an alert rule monitoring a single metric time-series originating from a single resource.

2.Pricing is applicable to the new generation metric alert rules available under Alerts, previous generation alert rules (Alerts Classic) will continue to be available at no charge.
There is a configuration limit of 100 metric time-series alerts, 100 activity log alerts, and 10 action groups per subscription. Contact Azure support to increase the limit.
Activity logs are available for a 90-day period at no charge. To retain activity log data beyond the 90-day period, activity log data can be routed to a storage account or event hubs. Corresponding charges will apply for storage and event hubs, respectively. No charges are incurred for API calls to pull activity log data.
Alerts offered as part of Azure Security Center (ASC) are not currently charged.

3.A dynamic alert is billed for the dynamic threshold capability and the underlying metric alert.
a.The price of an alert rule which monitors the CPU utilization, and RAM usage (i.e. 2 metric time-series) for 10 VMs, and has dynamic threshold enabled, can be calculated as,
Price of alert rule + Price of dynamic threshold
(10 VMs * 2 metric time-series per VM – 10 free units) * ￥1.02 per metric time-series alert rule per month + [(10 VMs * 2 metric time-series per VM) * ￥1.02 per dynamic threshold per month] = ￥30.6 per month
b.The price of an alert rule which queries 1 Log analytics workspace for a ‘404-error’ event every 15-minutes can be calculated as,
1 workspace * 1 log alert query * ￥5.09 per log alert rule per month = ￥5.09 per month


Billed according to the type and quantity of notifications you choose to send.

Features Includes free units Pricing
Email 1,000 emails per month ¥ 20.30/100,000 emails
Webhook 100,000 webhooks per month ¥ 6.10/1,000,000 webhooks
Text message
Country/region code Includes free units Pricing
China (+86) ￥ 0.219165/per text message
Hong Kong SAR, China (+852) ￥ 0.179988/per text message
Australia (+61) ￥ 0.36252/per text message
Austria (+43) ￥ 0.88/per text message
Belgium (+32) ￥ 0.643/per text message
Brazil (+55) ￥ 0.148188/per text message
Chile (+56) ￥ 0.316/per text message
Czech Republic (+420) ￥ 0.535/per text message
Denmark (+45) ￥ 0.269/per text message
Estonia (+372) ￥ 0.722/per text message
Finland (+358) ￥ 0.757/per text message
France (+33) ￥ 0.34344/per text message
Germany (+49) ￥ 0.634855/per text message
India (+91) ￥ 0.026711/per text message
Ireland (+353) ￥ 0.251856/per text message
Israel (+972) ￥ 0.1/per text message
Italy (+39) ￥ 0.532/per text message
Jordan (+962) ￥ 1.241/per text message
Luxembourg (+352) ￥ 0.392/per text message
Malaysia (+60) ￥ 0.611/per text message
Japan (+81) ￥ 0.29256/per text message
Mexico (+52) ￥ 0.168/per text message
Netherlands (+31) ￥ 0.8586/per text message
New Zealand (+64) ￥ 0.772/per text message
Norway (+47) ￥ 0.551/per text message
Portugal (+351) ￥ 0.221/per text message
Romania (+40) ￥ 0.545/per text message
Russia (+7) ￥ 0.507/per text message
Singapore (+65) ￥ 0.197605/per text message
South Africa (+27) ￥ 0.158491/per text message
South Korea (+82) ￥ 0.29892/per text message
Spain (+34) ￥ 0.56/per text message
Switzerland (+41) ￥ 0.382/per text message
Taiwan (+886) ￥ 0.399/per text message
United Arab Emirates (+971) ￥ 0.254/per text message
United Kingdom (+44) ￥ 0.22896/per text message
United States (+1) 100 text messages per month ￥ 0.065635/per text message


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Log Analytics FAQs

Alerts FAQs

Application Insights FAQs

  • How can I control or limit my costs for Application Insights?

    You can set a daily cap on the amount of data that Application Insights will accept from your application, allowing you to control your costs. After the daily cap has been reached, excess data will be ignored for the remainder of the day (in UTC time), and then will resume normally at the start of the next day.

    Additionally, you can use sampling to reduce the amount of data you send to Application Insights from your application.

  • What are nodes and how are how are the per-node data allowances applied under the Application Insights Enterprise pricing option?

    A node is a physical or virtual machine, or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) instance that's hosting your app. For example, if your application runs on three Azure App Service instances and one virtual machine, then you have four nodes hosting your application. We count the number of distinct nodes sending telemetry data each hour. If a node doesn't send any telemetry during a particular hour, then it's not counted. The monthly per-node pricing above assumes a node is sending telemetry every hour of the month, so if there are periods of inactivity for your application during the month, the actual charge will be lower.

    As your application scales up or down, such as adding additional web servers during peak periods of activity, Application Insights Enterprise charges will scale up or down as well.

    There are a few situations that are excluded from node counting (though data volume is always counted):

    • Developer workstations running an application during debugging are not counted as nodes.
    • Using the JavaScript browser client SDK (or certain other SDKs that don't report “roleInstance”) doesn't count your end-users’ machines as nodes.
    • Using the HockeyApp bridge app doesn't count each mobile device monitored by HockeyApp as nodes.

    What if I use the same node for multiple applications that I’m monitoring? That’s no problem. We only count the unique nodes sending telemetry data within your Azure subscription (billing account). For instance, if you have five separate websites running on the same physical server, and each website is configured with Application Insights Enterprise (charged per node), then collectively these will count as one node.

    You can also have applications using Application Insights Basic (charged per GB) in the same Azure subscription, and this won't affect the node counting for the applications that use Application Insights Enterprise.

    How does the daily 200 MB data work in Application Insights Enterprise? When you choose the Enterprise pricing option, your application gets a daily allowance of data based on the number of nodes sending telemetry. So, if you have five nodes sending data, you will have a pooled allowance of 1 GB per day for your application (as defined by the Application Insights resource you set up). It doesn’t matter if certain nodes are sending more data than other nodes because the included data is shared across all nodes for a given Azure subscription. If, on a given day, you send more data than is included in your daily data pool, the per-GB overage data charges apply. Unused data within your daily allowance doesn't roll over.

    The daily pooled data allowance is calculated as the number of hours in the day that each node is sending telemetry divided by 24 times 200 MB. So, if you have four nodes sending telemetry during 15 of the 24 hours in the day, the included data for that day would be ((4 x 15) / 24) x 200 MB = 500 MB.

    If you choose the Enterprise pricing option for multiple applications within the same Azure subscription, the daily allowance of data is shared across those applications. This daily allowance is not shared with applications for which you have chosen the Basic pricing option.

Support & SLA

If you have any questions or need help, please visit Azure Support and select self-help service or any other method to contact us for support.

Using Azure Monitor, you can gather detailed performance and usage data, as well as activity and diagnostic logs, and define alerts and notifications for Azure resources in a consistent manner. We guarantee that notifications will be delivered successfully at least 99.9% of the time. To learn more about the details of our Service Level Agreement, visit the Service Level Agreement page.