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Use zone redundant Managed Grafana workspaces#

Reliability · Managed Grafana · Rule · 2025_12 · Important

Use zone redundant Grafana workspaces in supported regions to improve reliability.

Description#

Azure Managed Grafana supports zone redundancy to provide enhanced resiliency and high availability. When zone redundancy is enabled, Azure Managed Grafana automatically distributes the service across multiple availability zones within a region.

Managed Grafana implements this redundancy using active-passive replicas. One active replica serves traffic while passive replicas remain on standby in other zones and take over if the active replica becomes unavailable.

This configuration ensures that the service remains available even if an entire availability zone experiences an outage.

Zone redundancy can only be configured during the initial workspace creation and cannot be modified afterwards. Additionally, zone redundancy is only available in regions that support availability zones.

Recommendation#

Consider enabling zone redundancy for Azure Managed Grafana workspaces deployed in regions that support availability zones to improve service reliability and resilience.

Examples#

Configure with Azure template#

To deploy Managed Grafana workspaces that pass this rule:

  • Set the properties.zoneRedundancy property to Enabled.

For example:

Azure Template snippet
{
  "type": "Microsoft.Dashboard/grafana",
  "apiVersion": "2024-10-01",
  "name": "[parameters('name')]",
  "location": "[parameters('location')]",
  "sku": {
    "name": "Standard"
  },
  "identity": {
    "type": "SystemAssigned"
  },
  "properties": {
    "zoneRedundancy": "Enabled"
  }
}

Configure with Bicep#

To deploy Managed Grafana workspaces that pass this rule:

  • Set the properties.zoneRedundancy property to Enabled.

For example:

Azure Bicep snippet
resource grafana 'Microsoft.Dashboard/grafana@2024-10-01' = {
  name: name
  location: location
  sku: {
    name: 'Standard'
  }
  identity: {
    type: 'SystemAssigned'
  }
  properties: {
    zoneRedundancy: 'Enabled'
  }
}

Notes#

Zone redundancy must be configured during the initial deployment. It is not possible to modify an existing Managed Grafana workspace to enable zone redundancy after it has been deployed.

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