Viewing metrics

Metrics give us more information about the state and health of a certain Azure resource. In this case, we want to view information about the health of the Azure Digital Twins instance. Metrics are enabled by default and do not per se require the setup of the Log Analytics workspace. They are often used as the first place to monitor, check, and try to resolve issues around your resource before contacting Azure support.

Our Azure Digital Twins instance provides several metrics that will provide us with an overview of the health of the resource. The following categories of metrics are available:

• Service limits: These are metrics that provide us with more information about the Digital Twins count and the Model count, also called TwinCount and ModelCount. At the time of writing this book, these metrics are still in preview.
• API Request metrics: These are metrics that provide us with information regarding the execution of API requests. These requests concern...