Azure Service Health Agent Skill

Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when handling Service Health APIs, Resource Graph queries, webhooks, VM Resource Health, or retirement alerts, and other Azure Service Health related development tasks. Not for Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Reliability (use azure-reliability), Azure Resiliency (use azure-resiliency).

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the whole folder, loaded on every use

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how many repositories repackaged it

681

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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-service-health

The instruction itself

9 sections, as written by the author

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

> 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 | 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 |

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