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title: Azure SQL Managed Instances monitoring integration
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/microsoft-azure-integrations/azure-integrations-list/azure-sql-managed-instances-monitoring-integration
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New Relic offers an integration for reporting your Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instances data. This document explains how to activate this integration and describes the data that can be reported.

## Activate integration [#activate]

To enable the integration, follow standard procedures to [activate your Azure service in New Relic](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/microsoft-azure-integrations/getting-started/activate-azure-integrations).

## Configuration and polling [#polling]

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using [configuration options](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/integrations/new-relic-integrations/getting-started/configure-polling-frequency-data-collection-cloud-integrations).

Default polling information for the Azure SQL Managed Instances integration:

-   New Relic polling interval: 5 minutes

## View and use data [#find-data]

To view your integration data, go to **[one.newrelic.com > All capabilities](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure > Azure** and select an integration.

You can [query and explore your data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/using-new-relic/data/understand-data/query-new-relic-data) using the following [event type](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#event-data):

| Entity   | Event Type                      | Provider                  |
| -------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Instance | `AzureSqlManagedInstanceSample` | `AzureSqlManagedInstance` |

For more on how to use your data, see [Understand and use integration data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/integrations/find-use-infrastructure-integration-data).

## Metric data [#metrics]

This integration collects Azure SQL Managed Instances data for Instance.

### SQL Managed Instances Instance data

| Metric             | Unit    | Description            |
| ------------------ | ------- | ---------------------- |
| `avgCpuPercent`    | Percent | Average CPU percentage |
| `ioReadBytes`      | Bytes   | IO bytes read          |
| `ioRequests`       | Count   | IO requests count      |
| `ioWrittenBytes`   | Bytes   | IO bytes written       |
| `reservedStorage`  | Count   | Storage space reserved |
| `storageSpaceUsed` | Count   | Storage space used     |
| `virtualCore`      | Count   | Virtual core count     |