Azure Observability Services Services Service Use When MCP Tools CLI Azure Monitor Metrics, alerts, dashboards azure__monitor az monitor Application Insights APM, distributed tracing azure__applicationinsights az monitor app-insights Log Analytics Log queries, KQL azure__kusto az monitor log-analytics Alerts Notifications, actions - az monitor alert Workbooks Interactive reports azure__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 Monitor Service Metric/Log Application errors App Insights Exceptions, failed requests Performance App Insights Response time, dependencies Infrastructure Azure Monitor CPU, memory, disk Security Log Analytics Sign-ins, audit logs Costs Cost Management Budget alerts SDK Quick References For programmatic access to monitoring services, see the condensed SDK guides: OpenTelemetry : Python | TypeScript | Python Exporter Monitor Query : Python | Java Log Ingestion : Python | Java App Insights Mgmt : .NET Service Details For deep documentation on specific services: Application Insights setup -> appinsights-instrumentation skill KQL query patterns -> Log Analytics KQL documentation Alert configuration -> Azure Monitor alerts documentation