Disable Prometheus metrics collection from an AKS cluster

Currently, the Azure CLI is the only option to remove the metrics add-on from your AKS cluster, and stop sending Prometheus metrics to Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus.

The az aks update --disable-azure-monitor-metrics command:

• Removes the ama-metrics agent from the cluster nodes.
• Deletes the recording rules created for that cluster.
• Deletes the data collection endpoint (DCE).
• Deletes the data collection rule (DCR).
• Deletes the DCRA and recording rules groups created as part of onboarding.

Note

This action doesn't remove any existing data stored in your Azure Monitor workspace.

az aks update --disable-azure-monitor-metrics -n <cluster-name> -g <cluster-resource-group>

Next steps

• See the default configuration for Prometheus metrics
• Customize Prometheus metric scraping for the cluster
• Use Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus as the data source for Grafana
• Configure self-hosted Grafana to use Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus