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Azure Monitor Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Monitor. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category Location Description
Troubleshooting L37-L88 Diagnosing and fixing Azure Monitor issues: agent/extension health, data collection and pipeline errors, alerts, workspaces, autoscale, containers, Application Insights, and VM performance.
Best Practices L89-L125 Best practices for Azure Monitor alerts, autoscale, AKS/VM monitoring, logs/metrics performance and cost optimization, DCRs, Prometheus/PromQL, OpenTelemetry, and multicloud observability.
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