Alerts and Action Groups

• When things go wrong it is expected that, the concerned teams are notified
• Notifications can be
  • emails
  • sms
  • Ticket on you ITSM (IT Service Management Tool)
• Create a linux and stress the cpu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install stress
sudo stress --cpu 8 -v --timeout 15m

• Lets create a Percentage CPU alert with a email notification action group

• Refer Here to see all the metrics supported by azure by resource type

• Frequently used Service

  • Virtual Machine Metrics
  • VMSS
  • Application Gateways
  • Network Connections dnszones loadbalancer network interfaces publicip vnets
  • SQL Database
  • SQL Elasticpool
  • Storage Service

• Exercise: Try to Create an alert based on disk usage on the linux vm