What is the difference between Azure Metrics Explorer and Azure dashboard?-CodePudding

If I would like to setup collection of custom metrics in Azure Insights and visualize some of them in a (nearly) real-time fashion and also see historic data aggregated, should I use Azure Metrics Explorer or Azure dashboard? What are they used for? What is the difference between them? Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

Azure Metrics Explorer

In an Azure metrics Explorer, we can select only one resource to view the metrics information.
If we want to visualize more than one resource in different subscription metrics are not possible in a single chart of Azure Metrics Explorer.
if you want to visualize metrics for more than one resource on another subscription you have to create a new chart.

Refer Azure Metrics Started Doc

Azure Dashboard

Allow you to launch tasks for Day-to-Day Operations.
Customizable based on Tasks, Projects, or User Roles.
Monitor the Performance, Availability, and Health of the Resources. By using Dashboard we can monitor all our resources on a single page.

Refer Azure Dashboard

custom metrics in Azure Insights and visualize some of them in a (nearly) real-time fashion and also see historic data aggregated, should I use Azure Metrics Explorer or Azure dashboard

If you want to visualize Single App Insights Specific Data like (custom Metrics) you can choose Azure Metrics. Or if you want to visualize more than one resource metric you can choose the Azure Dashboard.