Exercise - Create a Service Health alert

This guided project consists of the following exercises:

• Create an action group
• Create a Service Health alert
• Create an Activity Log alert

In this exercise, you create a Service Health alert that watches for platform incidents and planned maintenance in your regions. This free alert gives your team automatic visibility into Azure service issues that might affect your resources.

This exercise includes the following tasks:

• Navigate to Service Health
• Create the alert rule

Outcome: A Service Health alert that notifies the operations team about Azure platform incidents and planned maintenance.

Task 1: Navigate to Service Health

Open Azure Service Health, which tracks the status of Azure services across the regions you use. Service Health alerts notify you automatically when Azure platform issues might affect your resources.

1. In the portal search bar, search for Service Health and select Service Health.
2. Select Service issues in the left menu. Review whether any active incidents are listed for your subscription. If none are active, that means all services are healthy in your regions.
3. Select Planned maintenance and note any upcoming maintenance windows. These are the types of events your alert will notify you about.
4. Select Health advisories to see any non-critical recommendations from Azure.
5. Select Health history to view past incidents and their resolution timelines. This gives context for why proactive alerting matters.
6. Select Health alerts in the left menu.

Task 2: Create the alert rule

Configure an alert that watches for service incidents and planned maintenance events in the regions you use. This is a free alert that requires no running compute resources.

1. Select + Create service health alert.
2. For Subscription, select your subscription.
3. For Service(s), leave the default to monitor all services, or select specific services you use.
4. For Region(s), select the region you used for the resource group (and any other regions you use).
5. For Event types, check both Service issue and Planned maintenance.
6. Select the Actions tab.
7. Select Select action groups and choose ag-gp-ops-email.
8. Select the Details tab.
9. For Resource group, select rg-gp-monitoring-alerts.
10. For Alert rule name, enter ar-gp-service-health.
11. Make sure Enable alert rule upon creation is checked.
12. Select Create.