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articles/load-balancer/load-balancer-monitor-metrics-cli.md

@@ -44,23 +44,19 @@ For metric definitions and further details, refer to [Monitoring load balancer d
 ## CLI examples for Load Balancer metrics 
 <!-- Introduction paragraph -->
 
-The [az monitor metrics](/cli/azure/monitor/metrics)command is used to view Azure resource metrics. To see what metrics are available for Standard Load Balancer resources, you run the `az monitor metrics list-definitions` command. 
+The [az monitor metrics](/cli/azure/monitor/metrics) command is used to view Azure resource metrics. To see the metric definition available for a Standard Load Balancer, you run the `az monitor metrics list-definitions` command. 
 
 ```azurecli
-# Display available metrics for Standard Load Balancer resources
+# Display available metric definitions for a Standard Load Balancer resource
 
-az monitor metrics list-definitions 
+az monitor metrics list-definitions --resource <ResourceName>
 ```
 
-To retrieve all Standard Load Balancer metrics available using CLI, you can use the `az monitor metrics list` command.  
+In the above example and the following examples, replace **<ResourceName>** with the value of your Standard Load Balancer resource in the format of  */subscriptions/{subscriptionID}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroup}/Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/{resourceName}*. 
 
-```azurecli
-# Retrieve all available Standard Load Balancer metrics
-
-az monitor metrics list  
-```
+To retrieve Standard Load Balancer metrics for a resource, you can use the `az monitor metrics list` command.
 
-Use `--metric DipAvailability` option to collect the Health Probe Status metric from a Standard Load Balancer. By default, az monitor metrics list returns the resource’s metrics from the last hour.
+For example, use the `--metric DipAvailability` option to collect the Health Probe Status metric from a Standard Load Balancer. 
 
 ```azurecli
 
@@ -69,26 +65,26 @@ Use `--metric DipAvailability` option to collect the Health Probe Status metric
 az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability 
 ```
 
-When you run the above command, the output will appear as follows:
+When you run the above command, the output for Health Probe status will be like to the following output:
 ```output
-...
+user@Azure:~$ az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability
 {
   "cost": 59,
   "interval": "0:01:00",
   "namespace": "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers",
-  "resourceregion": "eastus",
-  "timespan": "2022-06-03T15:48:50Z/2022-06-03T16:48:50Z",
+  "resourceregion": "eastus2",
+  "timespan": "2022-06-30T15:22:39Z/2022-06-30T16:22:39Z",
   "value": [
     {
       "displayDescription": "Average Load Balancer health probe status per time duration",
       "errorCode": "Success",
       "errorMessage": null,
-      "id": "/subscriptions/6a5f35e9-6951-499d-a36b-83c6c6eed44a/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/demoLB/providers/Microsoft.Insights/metrics/DipAvailability",
+      "id": "/subscriptions/6a5f35e9-6951-499d-a36b-83c6c6eed44a/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup2/providers/Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/myLoadBalancer/providers/Microsoft.Insights/metrics/DipAvailability",
       "name": {
         "localizedValue": "Health Probe Status",
         "value": "DipAvailability"
       },
-      "resourceGroup": "myResourceGroup",
+      "resourceGroup": "myResourceGroup2",
       "timeseries": [],
       "type": "Microsoft.Insights/metrics",
       "unit": "Count"
@@ -97,24 +93,23 @@ When you run the above command, the output will appear as follows:
 }
 ...
 ```
-You can specify the aggregation type for a metric with the –-aggregation parameter. For recommended aggregations, see Monitoring load balancer data reference](./monitor-load-balancer-reference.md). 
+You can specify the aggregation type for a metric with the `–-aggregation` parameter. For recommended aggregations, see Monitoring load balancer data reference](./monitor-load-balancer-reference.md). 
 
 ```azurecli
 
 # List the average Health Probe Status metric from a Standard Load Balancer
 
 az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability --aggregation Average 
 ```
-
-To specify the interval to aggregate metrics, use the `--interval`` parameter and specify a value in ##h##m format. The default interval is 
+To specify the interval to metrics, use the `--interval` parameter and specify a value in ##h##m format. The default interval is 1m.
 
 ```azurecli
 
 # List the average List the average Health Probe Status metric from a Standard Load Balancer in 5 minute intervals
 
 az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability --aggregation Average --interval 5m
 ```
-You can query metric data over a period of time using ``--start-time` and `--end-time` with the format of date (yyyy-mm-dd) time (hh:mm:ss.xxxxx) timezone (+/-hh:mm). To list the average Health Probe Status aggregated per day from May 5, 2022 and May 10, 2022, use the following command:
+By default, az monitor metrics list returns the resource’s aggregate metrics from the last hour. You can query metric data over a period of time using `--start-time` and `--end-time` with the format of date (yyyy-mm-dd) time (hh:mm:ss.xxxxx) timezone (+/-hh:mm). To list the average Health Probe Status aggregated per day from May 5, 2022 and May 10, 2022, use the following command:
 
 ```azurecli
 # List average Health Probe Status metric aggregated per day from May 5, 2022 and May 10, 2022. 
@@ -130,23 +125,23 @@ To split metrics on a dimension, such as “BackendIPAddress”, specify the dim
 ```azurecli
 # List average Health Probe Status metric and filter for all BackendIPAddress dimensions
 
-az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability --filter “BackendIPAddress eq ‘*’” –aggregation Average 
+az monitor metrics list --resource $res --metric DipAvailability --filter "BackendIPAddress eq '*'" --aggregation Average
 ```
 
 You can also specify a specific dimension value. 
 
 ```azurecli
 # List average Health Probe Status metric and filter for the 10.1.0.4 BackendIPAddress dimension
 
-az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability --filter “BackendIPAddress eq ’10.1.0.4’” –aggregation Average 
+az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability --filter "BackendIPAddress eq '10.1.0.4'" --aggregation Average 
 ```
 
 In cases where you need to filter on multiple dimension values, specify the `--filter` value using `and` between the values.
 
 ```azurecli
 # List average Health Probe Status metric and filter for all BackendIPAddress and BackendPort dimensions
 
-az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability --filter “BackendIPAddress eq ‘*’ and BackendPort eq ‘*’” –aggregation Average 
+az monitor metrics list --resource <ResourceName> --metric DipAvailability --filter "BackendIPAddress eq '*' and BackendPort eq '*'" --aggregation Average 
 ```
 
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