Azure DevOps Health Overview and Best Practices

Maintaining a healthy Azure DevOps environment is crucial for efficient software development and delivery. Monitoring your Azure DevOps health is essential.

You can monitor your Azure DevOps health by checking the Azure DevOps Health Overview dashboard, which provides a visual representation of your organization's health. This dashboard includes a health score, a breakdown of the different health metrics, and recommendations for improvement.

A good Azure DevOps health score is above 90%, indicating a stable and healthy environment. This score is based on several metrics, including build and deployment success rates, test coverage, and code quality.

Regularly checking your Azure DevOps health score can help you identify potential issues before they impact your team's productivity. By addressing these issues proactively, you can maintain a healthy and efficient development environment.

Azure DevOps health is a crucial aspect of ensuring your development pipeline runs smoothly. The top reported issues can give you a good indication of the service status.

Service down is one of the most commonly reported issues, which means the service is not available for use. This can be frustrating, especially if you're in the middle of a critical project.

The most common reported issues include:

These issues can be caused by a variety of factors, including server overload, network connectivity problems, or even a simple typo in your code.

Resource health is a critical aspect of Azure DevOps health, giving you information about problems that affect a wide range of Azure Services.

You can see the impact of any Azure Service problems on your resources by selecting your subscription and Resource Type.

Resource Health has five possible status: Available, Unavailable, Non-platform events, Unknown, and Degraded.

Here are the specific status and what they mean:

If your resource is Degraded, it means you'll still be able to use it, but it's not performing as it should. Different resources have their own criteria for when they report that they are degraded.

When your resources are available, it means there are no events detected that affect their health. This is great news!

You'll only see a "Recently resolved" notification if the resource recovered from unplanned downtime during the last 24 hours.

Having resources that are available is essential for a smooth-running operation.

Resource health events are recorded in the activity log when an annotation is submitted for a resource. This can include events like "ResourceDegraded" or "AccountClientThrottling".

A resource transitioned to or from Unhealthy is also recorded in the activity log. This can help you track changes in a resource's health over time.

Resource health events are recorded in the activity log when a resource was Unhealthy for more than 15 minutes. This can be an important data point for troubleshooting issues.

The following resource health transitions aren't recorded in the activity log:

Resource health events can provide valuable insights into the health of your resources. By tracking these events, you can identify potential issues before they become major problems.

Azure Pipelines can automatically build and test code, making it available to various projects. It supports most languages and project types, offering combined continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for building and testing code and shipping it to a target.

Implementing a CI/CD pipeline helps ensure high-quality, consistent code while making it easily accessible to team members. Azure Pipelines offers a fast, secure, and easy way to automate the building process and make projects available to various users.

Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance so you can take action to mitigate downtime. Configurable cloud alerts notify you about active and upcoming service issues, while a personalized dashboard shows the service issues that affect you.

Platform events are triggered by multiple components of the Azure infrastructure, including scheduled actions like planned maintenance and unexpected incidents like unplanned host reboots or degraded host hardware.

These events can be caused by a transition to the Unknown state, which is a state that Resource Health provides additional details about and enables you to contact Microsoft Support even if you don't have an active support agreement.

A resource health event is recorded in the activity log when an annotation, such as "ResourceDegraded" or "AccountClientThrottling", is submitted for a resource.

Resource health events are also recorded when a resource transitions to or from Unhealthy, or when a resource is Unhealthy for more than 15 minutes.

Here are some examples of when a resource health event is recorded in the activity log:

Azure Pipelines is a game-changer for developers, allowing them to automate the building and testing process.

It supports most languages and project types, making it a versatile tool for a wide range of projects.

Azure Pipelines offers combined continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for building and testing code and shipping it to a target.

This helps ensure high-quality, consistent code while making it easily accessible to team members.

Azure Pipelines can deploy to multiple targets simultaneously, making it a fast and efficient way to get projects up and running.

It integrates with GitHub and Azure deployments, making it a seamless addition to any development workflow.

Azure Service Health is a crucial tool for staying on top of service issues and planned maintenance. It notifies you about incidents and maintenance so you can take action to mitigate downtime.

You can configure customizable cloud alerts to notify you about active and upcoming service issues. This way, you'll always be in the know.

Azure Service Health is more granular than Azure Status, allowing you to track service issues, planned maintenance, and health advisories specific to your subscriptions. This is especially useful for pinpointing issues that affect your resources.

To get started, search for Service Health in the Azure dashboard. It has four sections: Active Events, History, Resource Health, and Alerts.

Status change notifications are a crucial aspect of Azure DevOps health. You can get notified on Azure DevOps status changes via instant notifications in email, Slack, Teams, or wherever your team communicates.

StatusGator monitors all of your services and websites and sends your team instant notifications when they go down. This ensures that your teams are informed so that they can respond quickly to incidents.

You can configure customizable alerts to notify you of service incidents, planned maintenance, and health advisories. This way, you can stay abreast of issues that affect your team.

Azure DevOps publishes downtime on their status page across 56 components and 8 groups using 3 different statuses: up, warn, and down. This provides granular uptime metrics and notifications.

Here are the types of notifications you can expect:

You can receive real-time status updates about Azure DevOps downtime and outages.

Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance, so you can take action to mitigate downtime.

Configure customizable cloud alerts to get notified about active and upcoming service issues via email, SMS, push notification, webhook, and popular IT service management tools like ServiceNow.

With a personalized dashboard, you can analyze health issues, monitor the impact to your cloud resources, and get guidance and support during service incidents.

To stay informed, you can configure cloud alerts to notify you about active and upcoming service issues, and use your personalized dashboard to analyze health issues and monitor the impact to your cloud resources.

Here's a quick rundown of what you can expect from Azure Service Health: