# Azure Monitor optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub

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3 documented Azure Monitor cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

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3 documented Azure Monitor cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

## 3 inefficiencies

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- Azure Monitor  CER-0221

### [Overly Frequent Querying in Azure Monitor Alerts](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/overly-frequent-querying-in-azure-monitor-alerts)

While high-frequency alerting is sometimes justified for production SLAs, it's often overused across non-critical alerts or replicated blindly across environments. Projects with multiple environments (e.g., dev, QA, staging, prod) often...

Other

- Azure Monitor  CER-0425

### [Unfiltered Diagnostic Settings and Agent Data Collection Inflating Log Ingestion](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/unfiltered-diagnostic-settings-and-agent-data-collection-inflating-log-ingestion)

Most Azure Monitor Logs cost comes from the volume of data ingested into Log Analytics workspaces, and much of that volume is collected by default rather than by design. Diagnostic settings are commonly created with the allLogs category...

Other

- Azure Monitor  CER-0569

### [Duplicate Container Metrics Collection in Container Insights](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/duplicate-container-metrics-collection-in-container-insights)

AKS clusters can send container metrics to two places: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus, which stores metrics in an Azure Monitor workspace, and Container insights, which can write performance and inventory data such as Perf...

Other

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- [Azure Cognitive Services  10](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-cognitive-services)

- [Azure SQL  10](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-sql)

- [Azure Managed Disks  9](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-managed-disks)

- [Azure Blob Storage  7](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-blob-storage)

- [Azure AKS  6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-aks)

- [Azure Cosmos DB  6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-cosmos-db)

- [Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-database-for-postgresql---flexible-server)

- [Azure Log Analytics  4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-log-analytics)

- [Azure App Service  3](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/azure-app-service)

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