From 65bdee3a9000b44c927f2274ed52339a255fdbfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Simpson <adam@adamsimpson.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:28:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] AzureMonitor: Explain custom and metric namespace properties
 (#55048)

---
 .../components/ResourcePicker/Advanced.tsx                  | 2 +-
 .../grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/query.ts         | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/Advanced.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/Advanced.tsx
index 933fdcdb42e..d70cba2145c 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/Advanced.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/Advanced.tsx
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ const Advanced = ({ resource, onChange }: ResourcePickerProps<string | AzureMetr
               />
             </InlineField>
             <InlineField
-              label="Metric Namespace"
+              label="Namespace"
               grow
               transparent
               htmlFor="input-advanced-resource-picker-metricNamespace"
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/query.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/query.ts
index e85ddd2e917..bd24cdaa1d1 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/query.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/query.ts
@@ -45,8 +45,12 @@ export interface AzureMonitorQuery extends DataQuery {
 export interface AzureMetricQuery {
   resourceGroup?: string;
   resourceName?: string;
-  /** Resource type */
+  /** metricNamespace is used as the resource type (or resource namespace).
+   * It's usually equal to the target metric namespace.
+   * Kept the name of the variable as metricNamespace to avoid backward incompatibility issues.
+   */
   metricNamespace?: string;
+  /** used as the value for the metricNamespace param when different from the resource namespace */
   customNamespace?: string;
   metricName?: string;
   timeGrain?: string;