Azure Monitor - Metrics Overview

Metrics are like counters that you use in Performance monitor on a Windows machine. They are the numeric representation of the data. Each of the Azure resources has a set of metrics connected with it. These are charted overtime. You can then use these in alerts and also for auto-scaling. Metrics can be aggregated, compared and also analyzed. The are collected over a period of time which is called a time series. They can be used for alerting and provide a snapshot of the performance of the Azure resource. They also provide the ability to interact with them in real time.