The Management Pack for Microsoft Azure enables you to monitor the availability and performance of Azure resources that are running on Microsoft Azure. The management pack runs on a specified server pool and then uses Microsoft Azure REST APIs to remotely discover and collect performance information about the specified Microsoft Azure resources. This management pack focuses on the collection of performance metrics made available by Azure Services that use Azure Resource Manager. Azure Active Directory is used for authentication to the Azure REST APIs. This management pack queries the Azure REST APIs to enumerate the resources running in an Azure subscription and the performance metrics that are available for each resource. Virtual machines, web roles, and worker roles are able to store events and performance counters into Azure table storage using Azure diagnostics. If these resources are configured to use Azure diagnostics, this Management Pack can collect these events and performance counters. As soon as new Azure services are released (and older services are moved to the new Azure Resource Manager), they will be discovered automatically. As soon as the services expose performance counters via the metrics API, they will become available for collection. The MP guide includes information about what's new in this version of the MP.