Tag: Azure Monitor Alert Series

Azure Monitor Log Alert V2

Log Alerts have been available in Log Analytics for quite some time. Initially they were available via legacy Log Alert API that was specific for Log Analytics. In order to make Log Alert more native to Azure a new Log Alert API was available. With a few minor features like (custom webhook payload) that API was direct translate from the legacy one offering the same features. Now Azure Monitor team is introducing a new Log Alert that is named Log Alert V2. That new alert is using the same API but with new version. So if you use the API version 2018-04-16 to create Log Alert you are creating v1 and if you use version 2021-08-01 you are creating v2. Log Alert v2 will be generally available probably very soon as I have received e-mail notification containing the following information:

  • any API version like 2021-02-01-preview will be deprecated and replaced by version 2021-08-01
  • billing for Log Alert v2 will start from 30th of November.

This for me signals that before 30th of November or several weeks after the service will be generally available. I am not aware of specific information just the official e-mail notification leads me to these conclusions. The Log Alert v2 has been in preview for a couple of months which I have been testing and providing feedback.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series Part 12

I have promised that I will write the last part of this series and I am doing it later than never. After the December holidays I have been occupied with some community stuff that hopefully will see light in the next months. Due those community duties I was not able to write the last part sooner.

In this last part we will cover Azure Alerts Common schema. I will try not to cover things that are already in the official documentation but I want to mention a few important things. If you haven’t checked the documentation please do before reading the rest of the blog post.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 11

So far we have covered all the alert types that are available not only in Azure Monitor but other services like Sentinel and Cost Management as well. That does not end this series though as we haven’t other important parts of the alerting like integration. In this blog particularly we will cover Action Groups and Action Rules. These are two very important features in order to achieve complete monitoring.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 10

We are getting to one of the last blog post of these series. I still haven’t decided how much more I will publish but this one won’t be the last one. If not else there will be at least another one after this one. Today we will cover Azure Sentinel alerts. To be honest I was not sure if I will cover these alert types. I have tons of feedback for Azure Sentinel in general and specifically for their alerts. That feedback focuses more on APIs and alignment with other Azure teams. I am sure that from security functionality perspective the service is doing great. But let’s start looking at Azure Sentinel alerts and I will express my feedback trough the blog post.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 9

We continue our journey in Azure Monitor Alerts. This time we will cover alert type that is not part of Azure Monitor specifically but my opinion is that every Azure alert should integrate somehow with Azure Monitor so we have one consistent alert experience. The alert type that we will cover today somehow achieve this. This alert type is cost management alert or budget alert.

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