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Jack Baldry c1c48dd610 Use relative aliases for all non-current Grafana aliases (#60062)
* Use relative aliases for all non-current Grafana aliases

Prevents non-latest documentation "stealing" the page away from latest
and through permanent redirects for latest pages that no longer exist.

The redirected pages are indexed by search engines but our robots.txt
forbids them crawling the non-latest page.

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* Remove aliases from shared pages

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* Rewrite all current latest aliases to be next

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* Fix typo in latest alias

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* Remove all current page aliases

find docs/sources -type f -name '*.md' -exec sed -z -i 's#\n *- /docs/grafana/next/[^\n]*\n#\n#' {} \;
find docs/sources -type f -name '*.md' -exec sed -Ez -i 's#\n((aliases:\n *-)|aliases:\n)#\n\2#' {} \;

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* Prettier

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Using template variables with Azure Monitor in Grafana
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Template variables Azure Monitor template variables 400

Azure Monitor template variables

Instead of hard-coding details such as resource group or resource name values in metric queries, you can use variables. This helps you create more interactive, dynamic, and reusable dashboards. Grafana refers to such variables as template variables.

For an introduction to templating and template variables, refer to the [Templating]({{< relref "../../../dashboards/variables" >}}) and [Add and manage variables]({{< relref "../../../dashboards/variables/add-template-variables" >}}) documentation.

Use query variables

You can specify these Azure Monitor data source queries in the Variable edit view's Query Type field.

Name Description
Subscriptions Returns subscriptions.
Resource Groups Returns resource groups for a specified subscription.
Namespaces Returns metric namespaces for the specified subscription and resource group.
Resource Names Returns a list of resource names for a specified subscription, resource group and namespace.
Metric Names Returns a list of metric names for a resource.
Workspaces Returns a list of workspaces for the specified subscription.
Logs Use a KQL query to return values.
Resource Graph Use an ARG query to return values.

Any Log Analytics Kusto Query Language (KQL) query that returns a single list of values can also be used in the Query field. For example:

Query List of values returned
workspace("myWorkspace").Heartbeat | distinct Computer Virtual machines
workspace("$workspace").Heartbeat | distinct Computer Virtual machines with template variable
workspace("$workspace").Perf | distinct ObjectName Objects from the Perf table
workspace("$workspace").Perf | where ObjectName == "$object" | distinct CounterName Metric names from the Perf table

Query variable example

This time series query uses query variables:

Perf
| where ObjectName == "$object" and CounterName == "$metric"
| where TimeGenerated >= $__timeFrom() and TimeGenerated <= $__timeTo()
| where  $__contains(Computer, $computer)
| summarize avg(CounterValue) by bin(TimeGenerated, $__interval), Computer
| order by TimeGenerated asc