How to get Azure Insights data via Azure CLI

Question

Hello,

What i am trying to figure out is how i can gather vm data through the CLI. For instance is there a way to get total used space from a vm memory etc through the CLI? I know i can call a PowerShell script to do that but i need something that will work both in linux and windows. I know this data sitting there in azure insights. How can i show that data through the CLI. If you need any more information, please let me know.

Answer 1

@MrB1963

You can use az monitor metrics list to view certain metrics for the VM. This will fetch you the Percentage CPU for a VM: "

az monitor metrics list --resource /subscriptions/{subscriptionID}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroup}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{resourceName} --metric "Percentage CPU" --interval "PT1M"

However, "Logical Disk Space" is not a metric available here. To get the VM Insights data you will need to utilize Kusto Queries to fetch the information. See How to query logs from VM insights for information on how to utilize this VM Insights data. You can utilize the CLI command az monitor log-analytics query with this information.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you still have questions or need further assistance.

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