{"id":2915,"date":"2018-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:09:30","slug":"announcing-azure-service-health-general-availability-configure-your-alerts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/announcing-azure-service-health-general-availability-configure-your-alerts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Azure Service Health general availability \u2013 configure your alerts today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Service Health<\/strong>, a personalized dashboard that provides guidance and support when issues in Azure services affect you. Unlike our public status page<\/a> which provides general status information, Azure Service Health provides tailored information for your resources. It also helps you prepare for planned maintenance and other changes that could affect the availability of your resources. With Azure Service Health, you can easily configure alerts to ensure that your relevant teams are notified of service health events affecting their resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We launched the preview of Azure Service Health in July 2017. We have been evolving the service based on your feedback – including the integration of Service Health alerts. If you haven\u2019t already, set up your Service Health alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch this short video to see Azure Service Health in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From your personalized dashboard in Azure Service Health,<\/strong> you can view:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Service issues<\/strong> \u2013 ongoing issues in Azure services that are impacting your resources. Quickly understand when the issue began and what services, regions, and specific resources are impacted. Share a link referencing the issue with your team or download a PDF summary to share with people who don\u2019t have access to the Azure portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planned maintenance<\/strong> \u2013 upcoming maintenance activities in Azure that will affect your resources. Understand when the maintenance will begin. And in the case of virtual machines maintenance, Service Health also shows the exact list of your VMs that will be affected and gives you the ability to perform maintenance on your schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health advisories<\/strong> \u2013 summaries of recommended actions to prevent downtime, including when older Azure features are being retired or if you exceed a usage quota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health history<\/strong> \u2013 past service issues that have affected the health of your resources, including post-incident summaries after issues have been resolved.
Resource health \u2013 resource-level health insights for your resources. Look up a specific resource (like a VM) to see any current or historical health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health alerts<\/strong> \u2013 proactive notifications for Service Health events. Create alerts to inform your relevant teams of issues that they care about \u2013 select specific subscriptions, services, and\/or regions, and create an action group to alert via email, SMS, webhook, the Azure mobile app, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Service Health alerts are completely configurable, to ensure that the right people in your organization are notified appropriately. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n