Enable zone redundancy in Azure Managed Grafana

Sign in to the Azure portal with your Azure account.

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.

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.

   

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.	chinanorth3

   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.