Describe Azure Service Health

Azure Service Health helps you stay informed about the health of Azure itself and the specific resources you run. It combines three views that narrow in scope from global down to individual resources.

Three health views

• Azure Status gives you a global picture of Azure health across all services and regions. Check this page when you hear about a widespread outage and want to know whether it affects Azure.
• Service Health focuses on the Azure services and regions you actually use. Because you're signed in, Service Health knows which services matter to you and shows outages, planned maintenance, and health advisories relevant to your environment. You can set up alerts so you're notified automatically.
• Resource Health zooms in on individual resources, such as a specific virtual machine. It tells you whether a resource is running normally or experiencing a problem, and whether the issue is on Azure's side or yours.

Used together, these three views give you visibility from broad service events all the way down to a single resource. Historical alerts are also retained so you can spot recurring trends.

Operational value

When an event affects one of your workloads, Azure Service Health provides links to support so you can respond quickly.