Microsoft have recently added a new preview feature within the Azure portal to perform some cost optimization on the Container Insights data that is collected to a Log Analytics workspace. This is helpful as going with the default collection could leave you with unnecessary cost, as you don’t care about particular namespaces, or you’ve got a non-production cluster, so don’t care about collecting data every minute, but still want to monitor your cluster and workloads.
Here’s how you can quickly set this up.
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From the Azure Portal, open up the blade for your Kubernetes resource (works for both AKS and Arc enabled Kubernetes
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Navigate to Monitoring / Insights and then Configure azure monitor (If you’ve not previously enabled it)
