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Azure Anomaly Detector

microsoftdocs/azure-anomaly-detector

Expert knowledge for Azure AI Anomaly Detector development including troubleshooting, best practices, limits & quotas, configuration, and deployment. Use when tuning Docker-based Anomaly Detector, ACI or IoT Edge deployments, univariate/multivariate APIs, or service limits, and other Azure AI Anomaly Detector related development tasks. Not for Azure AI Metrics Advisor (use azure-metrics-advisor), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Machine Learning (use azure-machine-learning).

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-anomaly-detector

The instruction itself

8 sections, as written by the author

Azure AI Anomaly Detector Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure AI Anomaly Detector. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, limits & quotas, configuration, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Troubleshooting | L33-L38 | Diagnosing and fixing Azure Anomaly Detector issues, including multivariate error codes, common failures, configuration problems, and step-by-step troubleshooting guidance. |

| Best Practices | L39-L44 | Guidance on preparing data, tuning parameters, interpreting results, and designing workflows for effective use of univariate and multivariate Azure Anomaly Detector APIs. |

| Limits & Quotas | L45-L49 | Service limits for Anomaly Detector: max data points, series length, request rates, model constraints, and how quotas affect API usage and scaling. |

| Configuration | L50-L54 | How to configure and tune Anomaly Detector Docker containers, including environment variables, resource limits, logging, networking, and runtime behavior settings. |

| Deployment | L55-L58 | How to package and run Anomaly Detector in containers: Docker setup, Azure Container Instances deployment, and IoT Edge module deployment and configuration. |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Troubleshoot Multivariate Anomaly Detector error codes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/concepts/troubleshoot |

| Diagnose and resolve Azure Anomaly Detector issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/faq |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Apply univariate Anomaly Detector API best practices | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/concepts/anomaly-detection-best-practices |

| Use multivariate Anomaly Detector API effectively | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/concepts/best-practices-multivariate |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Review Azure Anomaly Detector service limits and quotas | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/service-limits |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Configure Anomaly Detector container runtime settings | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/anomaly-detector-container-configuration |

Deployment

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Deploy and run Anomaly Detector Docker containers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/anomaly-detector-container-howto |

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoftdocs/azure-anomaly-detector from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.