Azure Service Health Overview and Best Practices

Azure Service Health provides a unified view of Azure service health, including notifications, status updates, and root cause analysis. This helps you stay informed about any issues affecting your resources.

Azure Service Health is free for all Azure customers, and it's available directly within the Azure portal. You can also receive notifications via email or integrate it with other Azure services.

To get started with Azure Service Health, you'll need to navigate to the Azure portal and select your subscription. From there, you can access the Service Health dashboard, which provides a real-time view of Azure service health.

Azure Service Health helps you stay informed about service issues that affect you, so you can take action and minimize downtime.

You can review active incidents, planned maintenance, and health advisories in a personalized dashboard for service health based on your Azure subscriptions, services, and regions.

The Service issues view shows any ongoing problems in Azure services that are impacting your resources, and you can understand when the issue began and what services and regions are impacted.

You can also read the most recent update to understand what Azure is doing to resolve the issue.

Choose the Potential impact tab to see the specific list of resources you own that might be impacted by the issue, and you can even download a CSV list of these resources to share with your team.

Azure Service Health delivers quick information on occurrences, scheduled maintenance, and previous difficulties, helping you avoid downtime shocks and organize your operations more efficiently.

This handy tool keeps you informed with up-to-the-minute information on the status of Azure services and regions, so you can think of Azure Service Health as your trusted radar, guiding you around the cloud with simplicity.

Service health alerts are a crucial part of Azure Service Health, and setting them up is a straightforward process. You can configure alerts by integrating Service Health with Azure Monitor, which will notify you via emails, text messages, and webhook notifications when your business-critical resources are impacted.

To set up an activity log alert for the appropriate service health event, you'll need to route that alert to the right people in your organization using Action Groups. For more information, see Configure Alerts for Service Health.

Service Health integrates with Azure Monitor to alert you to potential issues. This includes outages, planned maintenance, service transitions, and retirements. You can select the ADD SERVICE HEALTH ALERT option in the service issues tab to add service health alerts.

To create a new service health alert, you'll need to specify the alert target, which notifies when issues are in user-preferred regions and services. You can also select whom to notify and how to notify them using Action Groups.

Here's a step-by-step guide to creating a new service health alert:

1. Log in to the Azure Portal and go to Service Health.

2. Click the "+ Add" button to create a new alert.

3. Configure your alert criteria, such as the impacted services, areas, and impact kinds for which you wish to be alerted.

4. Create Action Groups to specify the actions to be taken when an alert is triggered.

5. Review and design your options, and click "Create" to activate the alert.

By following these steps, you can stay on top of your Azure resources and respond quickly to any service concerns, ensuring your apps and services function successfully.

Azure Service Health is a powerful tool for troubleshooting and reporting issues with your Azure resources. You can download official reports and root cause analyses (RCAs) to share with stakeholders.

Service Health is available to Azure subscribers at no additional cost, making it an essential tool for any Azure user. You can track events in real-time on mobile devices or in your problem-management system with persistent links.

To stay informed and act quickly on service issues, Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance. You can configure customizable cloud alerts and use your personalized dashboard to analyze health issues.

Historic reports from Azure Service Health provide a clear window into your resources' past, allowing you to detect patterns, reoccurring difficulties, and trends connected to resource performance. These reports are essential for making educated decisions, optimizing resource configurations, and ensuring the reliability of your applications and services.

You can use the historic reports function to get extensive information about previous issues, service degradations, and maintenance events. This information can be used to demonstrate your dedication to service quality and compliance requirements.

Azure Service Health provides a clear record of previous occurrences and remedies, making it easier to identify and resolve issues. By using the data from these prior reports, you can take proactive steps to prevent similar issues from occurring in the future.

Here are some key features of Azure Service Health:

Microsoft Azure Updates have been rolling out new features to improve service health.

Azure Monitor has been enhanced with new metrics and logs to provide better visibility into service performance.

Service health alerts are now more accurate, thanks to the improved data collection and analysis.

New Azure Advisor recommendations help prevent potential issues before they occur.

Azure's automated remediation capabilities can now resolve issues more quickly and efficiently.

The Azure portal has been redesigned for easier navigation and faster access to critical information.

These updates aim to reduce downtime and improve overall service reliability.

Service issues, like outages and planned maintenance, can occur and affect your availability.

You can get notified about Azure service issues through emails, text messages, and webhook notifications. Service Health integrates with Azure Monitor to alert you when your business-critical resources are impacted.

To set up an activity log alert for the appropriate service health event, you can use Action Groups to route that alert to the right people in your organization. For more information, see Configure Alerts for Service Health.

Here are some ways to customize your notifications:

By customizing your notifications, you can focus on the resources and services that matter most to your operations.

You can get notified about Azure service issues through various channels, including emails, text messages, and webhook notifications.

Preparing for the unexpected is part of every IT professional's and developer's job, and service issues like outages and planned maintenance do occur.

Azure Service Health integrates with Azure Monitor to alert you via emails, text messages, and webhook notifications when your business-critical resources are impacted.

To get notified, you can add service health alerts by selecting the ADD SERVICE HEALTH ALERT option in the service issues tab.

You can customize your notifications to get alerts for the precise resources and services that are most important to your operations, allowing you to concentrate on what is important.

Here are three ways to get notified about Azure service issues:

By setting up these notifications, you'll be well-prepared to respond to service issues and minimize their impact on your operations.

Azure resource health helps you identify the health status on every specific resource. Resource health also can be used to understand the current status of any resources and their previous status from the past.

Turbo360's Status Report can help you monitor the health status of Azure resources at regular intervals, allowing you to view the status of all your resources from one place.

Using the Business Application in Turbo360, you can monitor resources on the application context, with a consolidated monitoring report containing the health status of all resources associated with that Business Application.

Every resource in a Business application will have a unique role, and a specific resource can be involved in more than one application, such as platforms.

The health of your resources is critical to the seamless operation of your Azure infrastructure, and Azure Service Health offers you with historical reports that provide significant insights into prior performance and challenges your resources have encountered.

With Turbo360's auto-correct capability, you can automatically change the status of the entity to the configured expected state if autocorrect is enabled, in addition to sending alerts whenever there is a violation.