Azure Cosmos DB Monitoring

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Bleemeo collects metrics for Azure Cosmos DB accounts via Azure Monitor (Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts namespace). Metrics are polled every 1 minute.

Metrics

Metric	Description
cosmos_db_total_requests	Number of requests made to the Cosmos DB account
cosmos_db_total_request_units	Number of request units (RU) consumed
cosmos_db_server_side_latency	Server-side latency in milliseconds
cosmos_db_normalized_ru_consumption	Percentage of provisioned throughput (RU/s) consumed by the busiest physical partition

Note

cosmos_db_total_requests and cosmos_db_normalized_ru_consumption report no data for periods without any request against the account.

Caution

cosmos_db_server_side_latency is based on Azure’s ServerSideLatency metric, which Microsoft deprecated in favor of ServerSideLatencyDirect and ServerSideLatencyGateway, with removal announced for the end of August 2025. That date has passed: on subscriptions where Azure has already retired the metric, cosmos_db_server_side_latency reports no data at all. Use the Azure Portal’s metric explorer to check whether ServerSideLatency still returns values for your account.

Permissions

Requires the Monitoring Reader role and the Microsoft.Insights resource provider registered on the subscription — see Permissions Summary.

Estimated Azure Cost

$0.432/month per batch of up to 50 Cosmos DB accounts in the same region (1 Azure Monitor API call per minute) — see Estimated Azure Costs.

See Also

• Configuration — set up Azure credentials and permissions