Automated monitoring with alerts

Monitor and Troubleshoot Azure Solutions

Ebadur Osib

Senior Cloud Consulting Engineer

Alerts

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Monitor and Troubleshoot Azure Solutions

Alerts

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Monitor and Troubleshoot Azure Solutions

What are Alerts?

  • Automated watchdogs for your resources
  • Three key components:
    • What to watch: Resource and metric
    • When to notify: The condition
    • What to do: The action
  • Work continuously in the background
  • Notify you immediately when issues occur

 

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Monitor and Troubleshoot Azure Solutions

Alert rules explained

Example: Storage Availability

  • Signal: Availability metric

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Alert rules explained

Example: Storage Availability

  • Signal: Availability metric
  • Condition: Less than 99%
  • Evaluation: Check every 5 minutes

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Alert rules explained

Example: Storage Availability

  • Signal: Availability metric
  • Condition: Less than 99%
  • Evaluation: Check every 5 minutes

Stateful Behavior:

  • Fires when condition is met
  • Automatically resolves when condition clears

 

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Action groups: Your response team

 

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  • Define what happens when alerts fire
  • Actions available:

    • Email notifications
    • SMS and voice calls
    • Azure Functions
    • Logic Apps
    • Webhooks
  • Reusable across multiple alerts

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Put into practice

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Lookback period

  • Lookback period: How far back to check

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Evaluation frequency

  • Evaluation frequency: How often to check

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Best practices

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Best practices

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Let's practice!

Monitor and Troubleshoot Azure Solutions

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