Excluding deallocated VMs from availability alerting (3/3: Alert rule excluding deallocated VMs)

This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. “How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting” is a question that I’ve heard many times. Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where all alerts are suppressed for a duration of time; Azure Monitor has no provisions at this point.…

Excluding deallocated VMs from availability alerting (2/3: Validate VM state)

This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. “How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting” is a question that I’ve heard many times. Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where all alerts are suppressed for a duration of time; Azure Monitor has no provisions at this point.…

Excluding deallocated VMs from availability alerting (1/3: Track VM state)

This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. “How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting” is a question that I’ve heard many times. Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where all alerts are suppressed for a duration of time; Azure Monitor has no provisions at this point.…