Create an Azure Monitor resource health alert rule for Azure VMware Solution

This article shows you how to create or edit a resource health alert rule in Azure Monitor for your Azure VMware Solution private cloud. To learn more about alerts, see the alerts overview.

Alerts triggered by these alert rules contain a payload that uses the common alert schema.

Prerequisites

To create or edit a Resource Health alert rule, you need:

• An Azure subscription with an AVS private cloud deployed
• Contributor (write) access to that subscription
• Read permission on any action groups you intend to use

Create Resource Health alert rule

Access Resource Health blade

1. In the Azure portal, navigate to your AVS private cloud resource.

2. From the left menu, select Help → Resource Health.

3. Click Add resource health alert.

Define the alert condition

• On the Conditions pane, select values for each of these fields:

  Field	Description
  Event status	Select Updated as the event status
  Current resource status	Select the current resource status. Values are Available, Degraded, and Unavailable.
  Previous resource status	(Optional) Select the previous resource status. Values are Available, Degraded, Unavailable, and Unknown.
  Reason type	Select the causes of the resource health events. Values are Platform Initiated, Unknown, and User Initiated.

  

Configure actions

1. Switch to the Actions tab and choose Use action groups.

2. Pick an existing action group or click Create action group to:

   • Specify the subscription and resource group

   • For Region, choose Global. Resource Health alerts can only be located in the Global region (which is the default).

   • Provide an Action group name and Display name

   

   • Under Notification type, select channels (Email, SMS, Push, Voice) and add stakeholder contacts

   • Under Review + create, review the details and click on Create

Review and create

1. On the Details tab, fill in:

   • Alert rule name
   • Subscription and resource group for the rule
   • Ensure Enable alert rule upon creation is checked

   

2. Click Review + create, then Create.

   

Manage alert rules

• View triggered alerts: search for your alert rule name and select the History tab. You can click on any of the triggered alerts to know about it.

  

• Edit an existing rule: open its Overview page and click Edit.

Next steps

• Manage your alerts
• Learn more about the ITSM Connector