Enable zone redundancy in Azure Managed Grafana

Azure Managed Grafana offers a zone-redundant option to protect your instance against datacenter failure. Enabling zone redundancy for Managed Grafana lets you deploy your Managed Grafana resources across a minimum of three Azure availability zones within the same Azure region.

In this how-to guide, learn how to enable zone redundancy for Azure Managed Grafana during the creation of your Managed Grafana instance.

Note

Zone redundancy for Azure Managed Grafana is a billable option. See prices. Zone redundancy can only be enabled when creating the Managed Grafana instance, and can't be modified subsequently.

Prerequisites

• An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.

Sign in to Azure

Sign in to Azure with the Azure portal or with the Azure CLI.

Portal

Sign in to the Azure portal with your Azure account.

Azure CLI

Open your CLI and run the az login command to sign in to Azure.

az login

This command will prompt your web browser to launch and load an Azure sign-in page. If the browser fails to open, use device code flow with az login --use-device-code. For more sign-in options, go to sign in with the Azure CLI.

Create an Azure Managed Grafana workspace

Create a workspace and enable zone redundancy with the Azure portal or the CLI.

Portal

1. In the upper-left corner of the home page, select Create a resource. In the Search resources, services, and docs (G+/) box, enter Azure Managed Grafana and select Azure Managed Grafana.

   

2. Select Create.

3. In the Basics pane, enter the following settings.

   Setting	Description	Example
   Subscription ID	Select the Azure subscription you want to use.	my-subscription
   Resource group name	Create a resource group for your Azure Managed Grafana resources.	my-resource-group
   Location	Specify the geographic location in which to host your resource. Choose the location closest to you.	(US) East US
   Name	Enter a unique resource name. It will be used as the domain name in your Managed Grafana instance URL.	my-grafana
   Pricing plan	Select the Standard plan to get access to the zone redundancy feature. This feature is only available for customers using a Standard plan.	Standard
   Zone Redundancy	Set Enable Zone Redundancy to Enable.	Enabled

   Zone redundancy automatically provisions and manages a standby replica of the Managed Grafana instance in a different availability zone within one region. There's an additional charge for this option.

4. Keep all other options set to their default values and select Review + create.

5. On the page, zone redundancy is shown as set to enabled. After validation runs, select Create. Your Azure Managed Grafana resource is deploying.

   

Azure CLI

1. Run the code below to create a resource group to organize the Azure resources needed. Skip this step if you already have a resource group you want to use.

   Parameter	Description	Example
   --name	Choose a unique name for your new resource group.	grafana-rg
   --location	Choose an Azure region where Managed Grafana is available. For more info, go to Products available by region.	eastus

   az group create --location <location> --name <resource-group-name>
   

2. Run the code below to create an Azure Managed Grafana workspace.

   Parameter	Description	Example
   --name	Choose a unique name for your new Managed Grafana instance.	grafana-test
   --resource-group	Choose a resource group for your Managed Grafana instance.	my-resource-group
   --zone-redundancy	Enter enabled to enable zone redundancy for this new instance.	--zone-redundancy enabled

   az grafana create --name <managed-grafana-resource-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name> --zone-redundancy enabled
   

Once the deployment is complete, you'll see a note in the output of the command line stating that the instance was successfully created, alongside with additional information about the deployment.

Note

The CLI experience for Azure Managed Grafana is part of the amg extension for the Azure CLI (version 2.30.0 or higher). The extension will automatically install the first time you run an az grafana command.

Check if zone redundancy is enabled

In the Azure portal, under Settings, go to Configuration and check if Zone redundancy is listed as enabled or disabled.

Next steps

How to configure data sources