azure-observability
Query metrics, logs, and traces across Azure Monitor, Application Insights
by microsoftFree
Description
Azure observability is an agent skill for querying metrics, logs and traces across Microsoft's Azure monitoring services. It covers Azure Monitor for metrics, alerts, dashboards and notifications, Application Insights for application performance monitoring and distributed tracing, Log Analytics for custom Kusto Query Language queries, and Workbooks for interactive reports. For each service, the skill lists the matching Azure MCP tool and the Azure CLI command group, so an agent can choose the route that is available. When the Azure MCP server is enabled, it is the preferred route. In that case the Monitor tool runs commands such as monitor_metrics_query to query metrics and monitor_logs_query to run KQL log queries. Without MCP, the same tasks go through commands in the az monitor family, including az monitor app-insights for Application Insights and az monitor log-analytics for Log Analytics. Alerts are managed with az monitor alert. The skill is intended for engineers who need to investigate an Azure workload, such as checking a performance regression, finding error logs or following a request through distributed traces. It is listed on skills.sh under the Microsoft azure-skills repository, and its security audits show Gen Agent Trust Hub: Pass, Socket: Pass and Snyk: Pass.…
Highlights
- Metrics, alerts and dashboards in Azure Monitor
- Application Insights for APM and distributed tracing
- KQL log queries through Log Analytics
- Prefers the Azure MCP server when enabled
- Falls back to az monitor CLI commands
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azure-observability FAQ
What does the skill cover?
Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerts and workbooks, for querying metrics, logs and traces.
MCP tools or CLI?
MCP is preferred when the Azure MCP server is enabled. Otherwise the skill uses the az monitor commands for each service.
What can I query?
Metrics with monitor_metrics_query, KQL logs with monitor_logs_query, and distributed traces and performance data from Application Insights.
How do I install it?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-observability.
What security audits has it passed?
skills.sh lists three audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass and Snyk Pass.
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