Efficient resource utilization strategies
Efficient resource utilization is the cornerstone of cost management in Azure Monitor. By optimizing how resources are used, you can significantly reduce costs without compromising the effectiveness of your monitoring solutions. It’s essential to understand how Azure Monitor’s pricing works. Azure Monitor charges are primarily based on data volume ingested and retained, the number of metrics monitored, and the usage of alerts and notifications.
In this section, we will use that knowledge to explore several strategies grouped into four main principles:
- Principle #1: The biggest savings come from data you don’t ingest
- Principle #2: More savings from data you avoid processing
- Principle #3: Reduce the data in use if it is not necessary
- Principle #4: Manage alerts and notifications wisely
Let’s start with the first of them.
