Alerting at scale with Azure Monitor

In most enterprise environments governance dictates how alerting for a certain resource needs to look like. Until just recently Azure Monitor only supported to configure alerts based on individual resources and this had to be replicated throughout the organization. Alert scope selection with available signals for a Resource Group and…

Azure Monitoring & Operations hackathon

A request that I get many times is to provide guidance and best-practices on how to implement monitoring and operations management with and/or for Azure. Most organizations have subtle differences which makes it hard to put out a generic concept of how to enable this. There are high-level ideas…

Azure Monitor alert time period vs. ago()

Every once in a while you might need to create an alert which runs a Log Analytics or Application Insights query. When designing the alert you need to define some attributes: the query, the time period, the frequency and the threshold. This article focuses on a not well know fact…

Alert on requests/s for Azure App Service

A customer of mine had the following rule configured: Alert configurationIt was his expectation that this rule would be triggered when in the last five minutes at some point more that 200 requests/s were being made to the App Service. Unfortunately this is not the case. The rule will…