- When something breaks, alert someone to fix it
- Notifications in response to unexpected events
- VM unresponsive
- VM using excessive CPU
- Application latency over 500ms
- Components
- Alert rule
- Monitored resource
- Monitored telemetry
- Conditions to trigger alert
- Assigned severity
- Action group
- Action(s) taken when rule is triggered
- Notification targets
- Email/SMS to support personnel
- Send to automation workflows
- In all scenarios, when something is not working as expected, Azure Monitor alerts inform the right group to do something about it