Grafana is an open platform that excels in operational dashboards. All versions of Grafana include the Azure Monitor data source plug-in to visualize your Azure Monitor metrics and logs. Azure Managed Grafana also optimizes this experience for Azure-native data stores such as Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer. In this way, you can easily connect to any resource in your subscription and view all resulting monitoring data in a familiar Grafana dashboard. It also supports pinning charts from Azure Monitor metrics and logs to Grafana dashboards.Grafana has popular plug-ins and dashboard templates for non-Microsoft application performance management (APM) tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, and AppDynamics as well. You can use these resources to visualize Azure platform data alongside other metrics from higher in the stack collected by these other tools. It also has Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudWatch and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) BigQuery plug-ins for multicloud monitoring in a single pane of glass., The data platform stores the collected monitoring data. Azure Monitor's core data platform has stores for metrics, logs, traces, and changes. System Center Operations Manager MI uses its own database hosted in SQL Managed Instance. The consumption section shows the components that use data from the data platform., Observability platforms enable analysis of the ingested telemetry, either via human operator or machine intelligence, to determine changes in system behavior that impact end-user experience, such as outages or performance degradation. This allows early, and even preemptive, problem remediation..