Azure Virtual Network monitoring data reference

This article contains all the monitoring reference information for this service.

See Monitor Azure Virtual Network for details on the data you can collect for Virtual Network and how to use it.

Metrics

This section lists all the automatically collected platform metrics for this service. These metrics are also part of the global list of all platform metrics supported in Azure Monitor.

For information on metric retention, see Azure Monitor Metrics overview.

Supported metrics for Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks

The following table lists the metrics available for the Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks resource type.

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Table headings

• Category - The metrics group or classification.
• Metric - The metric display name as it appears in the Azure portal.
• Name in REST API - The metric name as referred to in the REST API.
• Unit - Unit of measure.
• Aggregation - The default aggregation type. Valid values: Average (Avg), Minimum (Min), Maximum (Max), Total (Sum), Count.
• Dimensions - Dimensions available for the metric.
• Time Grains - Intervals at which the metric is sampled. For example, PT1M indicates that the metric is sampled every minute, PT30M every 30 minutes, PT1H every hour, and so on.
• DS Export- Whether the metric is exportable to Azure Monitor Logs via diagnostic settings. For information on exporting metrics, see Create diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor.

Supported metrics for Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces

The following table lists the metrics available for the Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces resource type.

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Table headings

• Category - The metrics group or classification.
• Metric - The metric display name as it appears in the Azure portal.
• Name in REST API - The metric name as referred to in the REST API.
• Unit - Unit of measure.
• Aggregation - The default aggregation type. Valid values: Average (Avg), Minimum (Min), Maximum (Max), Total (Sum), Count.
• Dimensions - Dimensions available for the metric.
• Time Grains - Intervals at which the metric is sampled. For example, PT1M indicates that the metric is sampled every minute, PT30M every 30 minutes, PT1H every hour, and so on.
• DS Export- Whether the metric is exportable to Azure Monitor Logs via diagnostic settings. For information on exporting metrics, see Create diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor.

Supported metrics for Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses

The following table lists the metrics available for the Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses resource type.

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Table headings

• Category - The metrics group or classification.
• Metric - The metric display name as it appears in the Azure portal.
• Name in REST API - The metric name as referred to in the REST API.
• Unit - Unit of measure.
• Aggregation - The default aggregation type. Valid values: Average (Avg), Minimum (Min), Maximum (Max), Total (Sum), Count.
• Dimensions - Dimensions available for the metric.
• Time Grains - Intervals at which the metric is sampled. For example, PT1M indicates that the metric is sampled every minute, PT30M every 30 minutes, PT1H every hour, and so on.
• DS Export- Whether the metric is exportable to Azure Monitor Logs via diagnostic settings. For information on exporting metrics, see Create diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor.

Supported metrics for Microsoft.Network/natGateways

The following table lists the metrics available for the Microsoft.Network/natGateways resource type.

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Table headings

• Category - The metrics group or classification.
• Metric - The metric display name as it appears in the Azure portal.
• Name in REST API - The metric name as referred to in the REST API.
• Unit - Unit of measure.
• Aggregation - The default aggregation type. Valid values: Average (Avg), Minimum (Min), Maximum (Max), Total (Sum), Count.
• Dimensions - Dimensions available for the metric.
• Time Grains - Intervals at which the metric is sampled. For example, PT1M indicates that the metric is sampled every minute, PT30M every 30 minutes, PT1H every hour, and so on.
• DS Export- Whether the metric is exportable to Azure Monitor Logs via diagnostic settings. For information on exporting metrics, see Create diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor.

Metric dimensions

For information about what metric dimensions are, see Multi-dimensional metrics.

This service has the following dimensions associated with its metrics.

Dimensions for Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks:

Dimensions for Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces:

None.

Dimensions for Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses:

Dimensions for Microsoft.Network/natGateways:

Resource logs

This section lists the types of resource logs you can collect for this service. The section pulls from the list of all resource logs category types supported in Azure Monitor.

Supported resource logs for Microsoft.Network/networksecuritygroups

Supported resource logs for Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses

Supported resource logs for Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks

Azure Monitor Logs tables

This section lists the Azure Monitor Logs tables relevant to this service, which are available for query by Log Analytics using Kusto queries. The tables contain resource log data and possibly more depending on what is collected and routed to them.

Virtual Network Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks

• AzureActivity
• AzureMetrics
• AzureDiagnostics

Virtual Network Microsoft.Network/networkinterfaces

• AzureActivity
• AzureMetrics
• AzureDiagnostics

Virtual Network Microsoft.Network/PublicIpAddresses

• AzureActivity
• AzureMetrics
• AzureDiagnostics

Activity log

The linked table lists the operations that can be recorded in the activity log for this service. These operations are a subset of all the possible resource provider operations in the activity log.

For more information on the schema of activity log entries, see Activity Log schema.

• Microsoft.Network resource provider operations

The following table lists the operations related to Azure virtual network that might be created in the Activity log.

Related content

• See Monitor Azure Virtual Network for a description of monitoring Virtual Network.
• See Monitor Azure resources with Azure Monitor for details on monitoring Azure resources.