> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.apica.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.apica.io/integrations/list-of-integrations/azure.md).

# Azure

**Overview**\
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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

**Integrations** Azure offers a broad spectrum of services that generate observability data through various tools and platforms. Apica Ascent integrates these tools into a unified interface, allowing for streamlined monitoring and management.

See the table below for other Azure-based data integrations supported by Apica Ascent:

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th valign="top"></th><th valign="top"></th><th valign="top"></th><th valign="top"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><strong>Data type</strong></td><td valign="top"><strong>Recommended collector</strong></td><td valign="top"><strong>Why it fits</strong></td><td valign="top"><strong>Alternative</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><strong>Azure Stack Hub infrastructure logs (syslog/CEF)</strong></td><td valign="top">Fluent Bit with the syslog input</td><td valign="top">Stack Hub's built-in forwarding sends syslog, and Fluent Bit handles CEF parsing and buffering well.</td><td valign="top">The OpenTelemetry Collector's syslog receiver, or send straight to Flow's syslog listener with no collector</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><strong>Azure Local / Arc telemetry exported to Event Hubs</strong></td><td valign="top">OpenTelemetry Collector (contrib build) with the azureeventhub receiver (Apache 2.0)</td><td valign="top">It reads Event Hubs directly, so you don't need Apica's documented Logstash path.</td><td valign="top">Logstash azure_event_hubs (Apica's documented path), or Fluent Bit's kafka input pointed at Event Hubs' Kafka-compatible endpoint</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><strong>Azure Local cluster nodes (Windows Event Logs, performance counters)</strong></td><td valign="top">OpenTelemetry Collector (contrib build) with the windowseventlog, windowsperfcounters and hostmetrics receivers</td><td valign="top">One agent collects both logs and metrics and sends OTLP straight to Flow.</td><td valign="top">Fluent Bit with winevtlog and windows_exporter_metrics</td></tr></tbody></table>