How to add alert in Azure monitor for VM insight metrics?

Question

I enabled the VM insights for few VMs. How can I create alerts for those metrics in Azure monitor?

Answer 1

How can I create alerts for those metrics in Azure monitor?

You can not create alerts for the metrics provided by VM insights. VM insight preview provides an in-depth view of VM health, performance trends, and dependencies. You can create these metrics alert for VM.

Moreover, Standard or Platform metrics are limited, you can try to make custom metrics via a variety of methods on your Azure VM to collect some custom performance indicators or business-specific metrics to provide deeper insights. Once published to Azure Monitor, you can alert on custom metrics for your Azure resources side by side the standard metrics emitted by Azure.

Ref: Send guest OS metrics to the Azure Monitor metric store using a Resource Manager template for a Windows Virtual Machine