Automated monitoring with alerts

Monitor and Troubleshoot Azure Solutions

Ebadur Osib

Senior Cloud Consulting Engineer

Alerts

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Alerts

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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

Home alerts

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

Put into practice

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Put into practice

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Put into practice

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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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