Logging · pricing
Azure Monitor pricing
Azure Monitor publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the logging tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Azure Monitor pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Azure Monitor plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Azure Monitor stops being free
Free, Free
- Log collection
- Metrics collection
- Alerts and notifications
No paid tier on record
Azure Monitor lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Azure Monitor feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Log collection
- Metrics collection
- Alerts and notifications
- Custom dashboards
Integrations
- API
- Webhooks
- REST
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
People bring Azure Monitor in for collecting logs and metrics from azure resources, alerting on metric thresholds and log queries, application performance monitoring through application insights, long-term log retention for compliance, querying operational data with kql. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Azure Monitor are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Logging
Too few logging tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Monitor (this page) | Free | usage-based | - | |
| Cronitor | Free, then $2/monitor/month | Pay-per-monitor plus user seats | - | vs Azure Monitor |
| Uptime.com | On request | subscription | - | vs Azure Monitor |
| Traceloop | Free | Freemium with pay-as-you-go enterprise option | - | vs Azure Monitor |
| Openstatus | Free, then $30/month | - | - | vs Azure Monitor |
| Healthchecks | Free, then $5/month | Per-job monitoring with fixed tiers | - | vs Azure Monitor |
| incident.io | Free | subscription | - | vs Azure Monitor |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Azure Monitor badges page.
Before you pay for Azure Monitor
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Azure Monitor runs on web, api, and is published by Microsoft Azure of United States. The full record is on the Azure Monitor review, and the rest of the category is under best logging tools.
Azure Monitor pricing questions
- How much does Azure Monitor cost?
- Azure Monitor publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does Azure Monitor have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers log collection, metrics collection, alerts and notifications.
- Which logging tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 logging tools listed alongside Azure Monitor have a free tier: Cronitor, Traceloop, Openstatus, Healthchecks, incident.io.
- What am I actually paying for with Azure Monitor?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for collecting logs and metrics from azure resources, alerting on metric thresholds and log queries, application performance monitoring through application insights.
- Does Azure Monitor charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Azure Monitor prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Azure Monitor against before paying?
- The closest logging tools in this directory are Cronitor, Uptime.com, Traceloop, Openstatus. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Azure Monitor covering price, platforms and features.