Moving forward with option 2

Author: kainawroth

articles/azure-monitor/best-practices-analysis.md

@@ -98,67 +98,6 @@ Azure Monitor suggests using Azure Managed Grafana for data visualizations and d
 ✅ Supported<br>
 ☑️ Supported with requirements/limitations
 
-#### Option 1 (empty rows to separate categories)
-
-| **Fully Azure Native Reporting**                                                | Workbooks                                                          | Azure Managed Grafana                          |
-|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------:|:----------------------------------------------:|
-| In the Azure portal, no other entry points required                             | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| Leveraged by Azure Monitor Insights                                             | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| Visualizations are native ARM resources                                         | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| At scale deployment and management of visualizations – ARM, Bicep, Terraform    | ✅                                                                 | ☑️<br>Only Azure CLI supported                |
-| Access model Identical to Azure RBAC                                            | ✅                                                                 | ☑️<br>Not supported for Prometheus            |
-| Included in Azure Cost                                                          | ✅                                                                 | ☑️<br>Additional per user pricing             |
-| Reports and guided workflows in the Azure portal                                | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| **Complete set of  Azure datasources**                                          | **Workbooks**                                                      | **Azure Managed Grafana**                      |
-| ARM, Azure Resource Health, Azure Service Health                                | ✅                                                                 | ☑️<br>Doesn't support ARM and Resource Health |
-| Azure Monitor metrics, logs, traces, ARG, Azure Prom, ADX (Azure Data Explorer) | ✅                                                                 | ✅                                            |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| **Azure Hybrid Environments**                                                   | **Workbooks**                                                      | **Azure Managed Grafana**                      |
-| Azure Arc                                                                       | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| Azure Stack Hub                                                                 | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| Azure Edge and Azure IoT                                                        | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| **Azure Automation**                                                            | **Workbooks**                                                      | **Azure Managed Grafana**                      |
-| Supports integrations actions and runbooks                                      | ✅                                                                 |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| **Multi-tenancy and portability**                                               | **Workbooks**                                                      | **Azure Managed Grafana**                      |
-| Single view for multiple Azure tenants                                          | ☑️<br>Via Lighthouse                                               | ✅                                            |
-| Visualizations available outside of the Azure portal                            |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| On demand and scheduled reports outside of the Azure portal                     |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Azure service principal and Azure SQL Managed Instance auth                     |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| **Multicloud and multi-platform**                                               | **Workbooks**                                                      | **Azure Managed Grafana**                      |
-| AWS (Amazon Web Services), GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Oracle Cloud            | ☑️<br>Requires ARC and Azure Monitor instrumentation and ingestion | ✅                                            |
-| OSS datasources – Zipkin, Jaeger, Tempo, Loki, Standalone Prometheus            |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Third party datasources  - AppDynamic, DataDog, New Relic, DataDog etc.         |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Generic database support – SQL, Mongo, Postgres, Oracle etc.                    |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| **Cloud Native**                                                                | **Workbooks**                                                      | **Azure Managed Grafana**                      |
-| Prometheus queries                                                              | ✅                                                                 | ✅                                            |
-| Prometheus Builder (No Code Queries)                                            |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Prometheus  Community Dashboards                                                |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Prometheus + Exemplars                                                          |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Istio - Service Mesh                                                            |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| &nbsp;                                                                          |                                                                    |                                                |
-| **Operational dashboards**                                                      | **Workbooks**                                                      | **Azure Managed Grafana**                      |
-| Multiple queries in single pane                                                 |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Event and annotations combined with time series data                            |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Client-side Processing – Expressions & Transforms                               |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
-| Dashboard playlists/rotation                                                    |                                                                    | ✅                                             |
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-#### Option 2 (additional column to separate categories)
-
-✅ Supported<br>
-☑️ Supported with requirements/limitations
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 | Category                               | Topic                                                                           | Workbooks                                                          | Azure Managed Grafana                          |
 |:---------------------------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------:|:----------------------------------------------:|
 | **Fully Azure Native Reporting**       |                                                                                 |                                                                    |                                                |