Azure Service Health provides free personalized alerts and guidance about issues affecting Azure services and planned maintenance. It notifies users about service issues, planned maintenance events, and health advisories. The tool helps users stay informed about the health of their Azure services and regions without any additional costs. It is accessed through the Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, or API.

1. Azure Advent Calendar – December 2, 2019
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2. Azure Service Healt
Remain informed about Azure Service issues and maintenance
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3. ▪ Introduction to Azure Service Health
▪ Azure Service Health walk-trough
▪ Things to keep in mind!
▪ Demo
▪ Key Takeaways
Agenda

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Wim Matthyssen
Cloud Architect
Microsoft Certified Trainer

5. ▪ No additional cost – free Azure service
▪ Personalized guidance and support when issues in
Azure services affect your environment
▪ Notify and help you understand impact of issues
▪ It keeps you updated when issues are resolved
What is Azure Service Health?

6. Azure Service Health versus the Azure status page
▪ Azure status page tracks major outages
▪ Useful when your unable to log into the
Azure Portal
▪ Does not show all information about the health
of your Azure services and regions
▪ Is not personalized
▪ Does not show planned maintenance
events and health advisories
▪ No automatic alerting
https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
https://status.azure.com/en-us/status/history
https://azurestatuscdn.azureedge.net/en-
us/status/feed/

7. ▪ Service issues: Problems in the Azure services
that affect you right now
▪ Planned Maintenance: Upcoming maintenance
that can affect the availability of your services in
the future
▪ Health Advisory: Changes in Azure services that
require your attention. Examples include when
Azure features are phased out or if you exceed a
usage quota
Service Health Events

8. Service Issue example

9. Health Advisory example

10. Service Health alerting
▪ Pin a personalized health map to your dashboard
▪ Configurable service Health alerts
▪ Be automatically notified by: email, SMS, push
notifications, webhook, or other channels

11. Create an Azure service health alert
▪ Azure Advisor best practice recommendation for process and workflow efficiency
▪ New category: Operational excellence category

12. Health history and Resource health
▪ Health history for up to 90 days
▪ Check the Resource health of your Azure resources
▪ Health status: Available, Unavailable (platform
and non-platform events), Unknown or Degraded

13. ! Things to keep in mind !
▪ Access Azure Service Health trough the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI or API
▪ Information is available for any subscription to which you have owner, contributor, or reader
access
▪ Contact Azure support if your resource is left in a bad state even after the issue is resolved
▪ As a free service, it doesn’t have an SLA
▪ Feedback UserVoice : https://feedback.azure.com/forums/919477-azure-service-health

14. DEMO
Let it snow …

15. Key Takeaways
First place to look whenever an Azure issue occurs
Create a Service Health alert
Use it, it’s free
Azure service issues, planned maintenance and
health advisories
Combine with the Azure Status page

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