Managing alerts

In this section, we will learn how to monitor your assets, gather metrics, and create alerts.

Monitoring your account

The Azure portal offers the ability to monitor your account. There are performance metrics and usage metrics available for you to view.

Selecting the monitoring lens will bring up the details of your monitoring settings.

By default, you will see the amount of total requests on your account. By selecting the Edit chart option, we can add multiple metrics to our chart. Selecting the today time range and checking all the available metrics will give you a detailed overview of all the events that happened today on the account.

Other possible metrics to add are shown in the following screenshot:

Tip

All metrics are interesting, but pay close attention to the Http 401 because it indicates the amount of unauthorized requests. This might be due to permissions expiring or worse, a possible attack on your system.

Creating alerts

Inside the same blade, we can create alerts...