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An administrator is managing several production virtual machines and needs to investigate a sudden performance slowdown. The administrator wants to use an interactive charting tool directly within the Azure portal to plot numerical performance telemetry, such as CPU utilization and memory consumption, over the past 24 hours to analyze spikes and identify trends.
Which tool in the Azure portal should the administrator use to plot this numerical performance data?
Metrics explorer is a dedicated visualization tool integrated directly into the Azure portal as part of Azure Monitor. It is designed to plot, analyze, and correlate numerical time-series performance data emitted by cloud resources.
Metrics explorer is specifically built for charting and analyzing numerical performance metrics within the portal UI, making it the most direct and effective tool for diagnosing resource utilization issues compared to log-query tools or subscription audit services.
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