In the Azure Monitor space, alerts will proactively notify you of important data or patterns identified in your monitoring data. Implementing an alerting strategy defines your organizations standards for the types of alert rules that you will create for different scenarios, how you will manage alerts after they are created, and define the automated actions you will take in response to alerts.
There are 3 things that need to be defined to setup an Azure Monitor Alert:
Below we will go into these with an example for All Virtual Machines in East US for a Subscription:
Define what to alert on: All Virtual Machines (in East US) for Subscription (Contoso Hotels – Dev).
Must choose between Metric or Log Based alert; chose Metric in this case:
Specified: Whenever the percentage CPU is greater or less than dynamic threshold.
Get an option for ‘Static’ or ‘Dynamic’ threshold. Chose Dynamic threshold which is the best practice for deploying alerts at scale.
Now that the condition is setup, we need to create an action group:
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Finally, here we share additional resources to help you on your Azure Monitoring Journey:
As you can see there is a lot that goes into enabling the necessary monitoring. But keep in mind, you are not in it alone. Tridius is here to help you every step of the way! From setting up custom monitoring, to fully managing your Azure environment, we are ready to assist with your monitoring needs.
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