Alerting and actionable intelligence
A core tenet of effective cloud observability entails establishing robust alert mechanisms that allow us to find deviations from expected behaviors promptly. Azure Monitor includes a versatile alert framework supporting multi-tiered notification cascades and automated corrective actions. Alerts are supported on Azure Monitor for both metrics and logs.
The cornerstone of Azure Monitor’s alerting capability is the alert rule, a configurable definition that outlines the conditions and actions for generating alerts based on metrics, logs, or activity logs collected from Azure resources. This rule specifies criteria such as threshold values or specific events that trigger an alert when met or detected.
To create an alert rule, you typically specify the following elements:
- Condition: This defines the criteria that must be met for the alert to be triggered. Examples include setting a condition based on CPU usage exceeding a certain...