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Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Azure Monitor the way a machine reads it — 179 machine-readable artifacts across 19 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Azure Monitor scores 73.3/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 73.3/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Azure Monitor

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure Monitor. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 19

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Azure Monitor Action Groups API

Operations for managing action groups

Azure Monitor Activity Logs API

Operations for querying Azure Activity Log events

Azure Monitor Alert Rules API

Operations for managing classic metric alert rules

Azure Monitor Autoscale Settings API

Operations for managing autoscale settings

Azure Monitor Data Collection Endpoints API

Operations for managing data collection endpoints

Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules API

Operations for managing data collection rules

Azure Monitor Diagnostic Settings API

Operations for managing diagnostic settings on Azure resources

Azure Monitor Events API

Operations for retrieving Application Insights events

Azure Monitor Logs Ingestion API

Operations for ingesting custom log data into Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor Metadata API

Operations for retrieving Application Insights metadata

Azure Monitor Metric Definitions API

Operations for listing metric definitions

Azure Monitor Metrics API

Operations for retrieving Application Insights metrics

Azure Monitor Metrics Batch API

Operations for batch querying Azure Monitor metrics across multiple resources

Azure Monitor Predictive Metrics API

Operations for getting predictive autoscale metrics

Azure Monitor Private Link Scopes API

Operations for managing Azure Monitor Private Link Scopes

Azure Monitor Query API

Operations for querying Application Insights telemetry data

Azure Monitor Scheduled Query Rules API

Operations for managing scheduled query-based alert rules

Azure Monitor Scoped Resources API

Operations for managing scoped resources within a Private Link Scope

Azure Monitor Test Notifications API

Operations for sending and retrieving test notifications

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Postman Collections 15

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 15

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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Arazzo Workflows 10

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Azure Monitor Action Group Lifecycle

Create an action group, read it back, and send a test notification to validate its receivers.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Action Group Receiver Recovery

Read an action group, then re-enable a receiver that had been unsubscribed.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Action Group With Metric Alert

Create an action group, attach it to a new classic metric alert rule, and confirm the rule.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Activity Log To Metrics

Pull recent Activity Log events for a subscription, then drill into a resource's metric definitions and values.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Alert Rule Audit

List classic alert rules in a resource group, branch on whether any exist, then inspect and re-tag the first rule.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Autoscale Inventory And Reconfigure

List autoscale settings in a resource group, branch on whether any exist, then inspect and disable a named setting.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Autoscale Setting Provision

Create an autoscale setting with a CPU-driven scale rule, confirm it, and pull its predictive metrics.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Batch Metrics Query

Resolve a resource's metric definitions, then batch-query the same metric across many resources at once.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Diagnostic Setting Provision

Inventory existing diagnostic settings on a resource, route its logs and metrics to a destination, and confirm.

ARAZZO

Azure Monitor Resource Metrics Explorer

Discover the metric definitions available for a resource and then pull the metric values for them.

ARAZZO

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Azure Monitor Context

0 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Azure Monitor API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 110

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Azure Monitor Action Group

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Activity Log Event

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Alert Rule

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Autoscale Setting

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Data Collection Rule

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Diagnostic Setting

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Log Query

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Metric Definition

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Azure Monitor Metric

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ActionGroup

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ActionGroupList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ActionGroupPatchBody

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ActionGroupResource

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Actions

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlertRule

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlertRuleResource

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlertRuleResourceCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlertRuleResourcePatch

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ArmRoleReceiver

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutomationRunbookReceiver

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoscaleNotification

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoscaleProfile

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoscaleSetting

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoscaleSettingResource

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoscaleSettingResourceCollection

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AutoscaleSettingResourcePatch

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AzureAppPushReceiver

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AzureFunctionReceiver

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AzureMonitorPrivateLinkScope

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Column

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Condition

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataCollectionEndpoint

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataCollectionEndpointResource

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataCollectionRule

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataCollectionRuleResource

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataCollectionRuleResourceListResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataFlow

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DataSources

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Destinations

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DiagnosticSettings

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DiagnosticSettingsResource

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DiagnosticSettingsResourceCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dimension

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmailReceiver

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EnableRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventData

24 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventDataCollection

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventHubReceiver

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventsResultData

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventsResults

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ItsmReceiver

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LocalizableString

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LogicAppReceiver

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LogSettings

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagedServiceIdentity

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetadataFunction

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetadataResults

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetadataTable

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetadataValue

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Metric

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricAvailability

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricDefinition

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricDefinitionCollection

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricResultsResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricsBatchRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricsBatchResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricSettings

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricsPostBody

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricsResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricsResult

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricTrigger

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricUnit

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricValue

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NotificationRequestBody

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PredictiveAutoscalePolicy

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PredictiveResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryBody

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryResults

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recurrence

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecurrentSchedule

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResourceForUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RetentionPolicy

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RuleAction

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RuleCondition

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RuleDataSource

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScaleAction

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScaleCapacity

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScaleRule

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScaleRuleMetricDimension

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScheduledQueryRuleCriteria

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScheduledQueryRuleProperties

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScheduledQueryRuleResource

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScheduledQueryRuleResourceCollection

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScheduledQueryRuleResourcePatch

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScopedResource

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScopedResourceListResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SmsReceiver

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriptionScopeMetricsRequestBody

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SystemData

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Table

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagsResource

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestNotificationDetailsResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeSeriesElement

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeWindow

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceReceiver

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebhookReceiver

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Microsoft Azure Monitor Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Microsoft Azure Monitor Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Monitor Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Microsoft Azure Monitor Scopes

4 scopes · clientCredentials

4 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Microsoft Azure Monitor Agentic Access

72 operations · 33 acting

72 operations · 33 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Azure Monitor — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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