The thermal behaviour of the entitled nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes of 4-acetylamino-2-hydroxy-5-methyl azobenzene has been studied by means of differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermogravimetry (TG), X-ray powder diffraction, IR and electrical conductivity. A light has been thrown on the nature of interaction of the solvents of crystallization with the host complex. Some of the kinetic parameters are calculated and discussed.Thermal analysis plays an important role in studying the structure and the properties of metal complexes. Nowadays a number of solid state reactions (e. g., thermal isomerization, conformational changes, polymorphic transformations, thermal phase transitions, thermochromism, etc...) of some metal chelates have been studied by means of thermal analysis [1-10]. In our laboratory, the structural chemistry of some transition metal chelates of simple substituted-azobenzenes was characterized [11][12][13][14][15] based on spectral and magnetic susceptibility techniques, but no work has been done on their thermal properties. The major goal of the present manuscript is conducted to study the thermal behaviour of some of these complexes to throw more light on the solid state reactions present.