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Azure Dashboards and Workbooks

Pin charts and query results to an Azure Dashboard for at-a-glance operational visibility, and create Workbooks to share rich, parameterised reports with your team.

Why Dashboards and Workbooks?

Collecting metrics and logs is only valuable if the right people can see and act on the data. Azure Dashboards provide at-a-glance operational views that update in real time and can be shared with the entire team in the Azure portal. Workbooks go further, enabling rich, parameterised, narrative reports that combine text, charts, grids, and live query results in a single scrollable document — ideal for weekly operations reviews or capacity planning.

Creating an Azure Dashboard

An Azure Dashboard is a collection of tiles arranged on a canvas. Tiles can display metric charts, resource health, KQL query results, resource group overview, Markdown text, or App Service metrics. You can pin any chart from Metrics Explorer or a Log Analytics query directly to a dashboard using the Pin to dashboard button. Dashboards are stored as JSON resources in a resource group and support ARM-based deployment.

# Deploy a dashboard from a JSON template
az portal dashboard create \
  --resource-group myRG \
  --name 'Ops-Dashboard' \
  --input-path ./dashboard.json \
  --location eastus

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