Azure Service Health

Azure Service Health Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Service Health. Covers troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. 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

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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 | L34-L38 | Understanding VM Resource Health annotations, diagnosing VM health issues, and troubleshooting platform or user-caused VM availability and performance problems |

| Decision Making | L39-L44 | Guidance on selecting and interpreting Azure retirement alerts, and mapping retirement notices to specific resources to assess impact and plan mitigation. |

| Limits & Quotas | L45-L49 | Details on how long Azure Service Health notifications are kept, their lifecycle stages, and retention behavior for different event types and channels |

| Security | L50-L58 | Managing who can see Azure Service Health and security advisories using tenant/subscription roles and RBAC, including configuring access scopes and viewing security-related notifications. |

| Configuration | L59-L66 | Configuring Service Health and Resource Health alerts via ARM/Bicep/PowerShell and querying Service Health data/fields with Azure Resource Graph. |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L67-L77 | Using APIs, Resource Graph, webhooks, and connectors (OpsGenie, PagerDuty, ServiceNow) to programmatically access, query, and route Azure Service Health and Security advisories |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

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

| Interpret and troubleshoot VM Resource Health annotations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-health-vm-annotation |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

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

| Choose Azure retirement alert signals effectively | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-retirement-alerting-guidance |

| Correlate retirement events to impacted Azure resources | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-retirement-unified-impact-queries |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

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

| Understand lifecycle and retention of Service Health notifications | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-notification-transitions |

Security

| Topic | URL |

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

| Understand tenant admin roles for Service Health access | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/admin-access-reference |

| Manage Azure Service Health history access with RBAC | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/health-history-overview |

| Configure subscription access for Azure Security advisories | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-add-subscription |

| Access and view Azure Service Health security advisories | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-elevated-access |

| Configure tenant vs subscription access for Service Health | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/subscription-vs-tenant |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

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

| Define Service Health alert rules using ARM templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-arm |

| Configure Service Health activity log alerts with Bicep | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-bicep |

| Understand Azure Resource Graph fields for Service Health | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/azure-resource-graph-overview |

| Configure Resource Health alerts with PowerShell and ARM templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-health-alert-powershell-template |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL |

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

| Access Azure Security advisories via API endpoint | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/access-service-advisories-api |

| Run Azure Resource Graph queries for Resource Health | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-health-samples |

| Query Azure Service Health impacted resources with Resource Graph | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-impacted-samples |

| Query Azure Service Health with Resource Graph | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-samples |

| Integrate Azure Service Health alerts via webhooks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-guide |

| Forward Azure Service Health alerts to OpsGenie | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-opsgenie |

| Integrate Azure Service Health alerts with PagerDuty webhooks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-pagerduty |

| Send Azure Service Health alerts to ServiceNow | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-servicenow |