Azure Monitor pipeline provides a centralized control point for telemetry ingestion and transformation, designed specifically for secure, high‑throughput, enterprise‑scale scenarios. It's built on open-source technologies from the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and includes the components needed to receive telemetry from local clients, process that telemetry, and forward it to Azure Monitor.
With Azure Monitor pipeline control, you can:
- Ensure logs land directly in Azure‑native schemas – automatic schematization into tables such as Syslog and CommonSecurityLog
- Prevent data loss during intermittent connectivity across sites – local buffering in persistent storage with automated backfill
- Reduce ingestion costs before data reaches the cloud – centralized filtering, aggregation, and transformation
- Ingest telemetry at sustained high volumes in the range of hundreds and thousands of events per second – horizontally and vertically scalable pipeline architecture
- Secure telemetry ingestion without managing certificates on each host individually – centralized TLS/mTLS with automated certificate provisioning and zero‑downtime rotation
- Maintain visibility into ingestion infrastructure health – pipeline performance and health monitoring
- Plan deployments confidently at large scale – infrastructure sizing guidance for expected telemetry volume