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Azure Observability Services including Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Alerts, and Workbooks. Provides metrics, APM, distributed tracing, KQL queries, and interactive reports.From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill azure-observability

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Azure Observability Services

Services

ServiceUse WhenMCP ToolsCLI
Azure MonitorMetrics, alerts, dashboardsazure__monitoraz monitor
Application InsightsAPM, distributed tracingazure__applicationinsightsaz monitor app-insights
Log AnalyticsLog queries, KQLazure__kustoaz monitor log-analytics
AlertsNotifications, actions-az monitor alert
WorkbooksInteractive reportsazure__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 MonitorServiceMetric/Log
Application errorsApp InsightsExceptions, failed requests
PerformanceApp InsightsResponse time, dependencies
InfrastructureAzure MonitorCPU, memory, disk
SecurityLog AnalyticsSign-ins, audit logs
CostsCost ManagementBudget alerts

SDK Quick References

For programmatic access to monitoring services, see the condensed SDK guides:

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

What ships with it: 9 files

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