Monitoring Azure Container Instances data reference

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07/14/2022
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See Monitoring Azure Container Instances for details on collecting and analyzing monitoring data for Azure Container Instances.

Metrics

This section lists all the automatically collected platform metrics collected for Azure Container Instances.

Metric Type	Resource Provider / Type Namespace and link to individual metrics
Container Instances	Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups

Metric dimensions

For more information on what metric dimensions are, see Multi-dimensional metrics.

Azure Container Instances has the following dimension associated with its metrics.

Dimension Name	Description
containerName	The name of the container. The name must be between 1 and 63 characters long. It can contain only lowercase letters numbers, and dashes. Dashes can't begin or end the name, and dashes can't be consecutive. The name must be unique in its resource group.

Activity log

The following table lists the operations that Azure Container Instances may record in the Activity log. This is a subset of the possible entries you might find in the activity log. You can also find this information in the Azure role-based access control (RBAC) Resource provider operations documentation.

Operation	Description
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/register/action	Registers the subscription for the container instance resource provider and enables the creation of container groups.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroupProfiles/read	Get all container group profiles.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroupProfiles/write	Create or update a specific container group profile.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroupProfiles/delete	Delete the specific container group profile.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/read	Get all container groups.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/write	Create or update a specific container group.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/delete	Delete the specific container group.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/restart/action	Restarts a specific container group. This log only captures customer-intiated restarts, not restarts initiated by Azure Container Instances infrastructure.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/stop/action	Stops a specific container group. Compute resources will be deallocated and billing will stop.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/start/action	Starts a specific container group.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/containers/exec/action	Exec into a specific container.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/containers/attach/action	Attach to the output stream of a container.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/containers/buildlogs/read	Get build logs for a specific container.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/containers/logs/read	Get logs for a specific container.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/detectors/read	List Container Group Detectors
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/operationResults/read	Get async operation result
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/outboundNetworkDependenciesEndpoints/read	List Container Group Detectors
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/providers/Microsoft.Insights/diagnosticSettings/read	Gets the diagnostic setting for the container group.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/providers/Microsoft.Insights/diagnosticSettings/write	Creates or updates the diagnostic setting for the container group.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/providers/Microsoft.Insights/metricDefinitions/read	Gets the available metrics for container group.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/deleteVirtualNetworkOrSubnets/action	Notifies Microsoft.ContainerInstance that virtual network or subnet is being deleted.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/cachedImages/read	Gets the cached images for the subscription in a region.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/capabilities/read	Get the capabilities for a region.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/operationResults/read	Get async operation result
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/operations/read	List the operations for Azure Container Instance service.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/locations/usages/read	Get the usage for a specific region.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/operations/read	List the operations for Azure Container Instance service.
Microsoft.ContainerInstance/serviceassociationlinks/delete	Delete the service association link created by Azure Container Instance resource provider on a subnet.

See all the possible resource provider operations in the activity log.

For more information on the schema of Activity Log entries, see Activity Log schema.

Schemas

The following schemas are in use by Azure Container Instances.

Note

Some of the columns listed below only exist as part of the schema, and won't have any data emitted in logs. These columns are denoted below with a description of 'Empty'.

ContainerInstanceLog_CL

Column	Type	Description
Computer	string	Empty
ContainerGroup_s	string	The name of the container group associated with the record
ContainerID_s	string	A unique identifier for the container associated with the record
ContainerImage_s	string	The name of the container image associated with the record
Location_s	string	The location of the resource associated with the record
Message	string	If applicable, the message from the container
OSType_s	string	The name of the operating system the container is based on
RawData	string	Empty
ResourceGroup	string	Name of the resource group that the record is associated with
Source_s	string	Name of the logging component, "LoggingAgent"
SubscriptionId	string	A unique identifier for the subscription that the record is associated with
TimeGenerated	datetime	Timestamp when the event was generated by the Azure service processing the request corresponding the event
Type	string	The name of the table
_ResourceId	string	A unique identifier for the resource that the record is associated with
_SubscriptionId	string	A unique identifier for the subscription that the record is associated with

ContainerEvent_CL

Column	Type	Description
Computer	string	Empty
ContainerGroupInstanceId_g	string	A unique identifier for the container group associated with the record
ContainerGroup_s	string	The name of the container group associated with the record
ContainerName_s	string	The name of the container associated with the record
Count_d	real	How many times the event has occurred since the last poll
FirstTimestamp_t	datetime	The timestamp of the first time the event occurred
Location_s	string	The location of the resource associated with the record
Message	string	If applicable, the message from the container
OSType_s	string	The name of the operating system the container is based on
RawData	string	Empty
Reason_s	string	Empty
ResourceGroup	string	The name of the resource group that the record is associated with
SubscriptionId	string	A unique identifier for the subscription that the record is associated with
TimeGenerated	datetime	Timestamp when the event was generated by the Azure service processing the request corresponding the event
Type	string	The name of the table
_ResourceId	string	A unique identifier for the resource that the record is associated with
_SubscriptionId	string	A unique identifier for the subscription that the record is associated with