Azure Virtual Machine Alert Configuration

In this blog post, I'm sharing my experience to enable the alerts if VMs got reboot, stopped, deallocated, started and other operation which may cause the business impact.
 
We can configure the below Alert through Azure Alerts.
 
Azure Virtual Machine Alert Configuration
 
Step 1 - Alert Configuration
  • Select the VMs or services you want to configure the alerts.
  • Go to monitoring tab and click on Alerts.
  • Click on the Add Activity Log Alerts.
Azure Virtual Machine Alert Configuration
 
Step 2 - Alert Configuration as per Service Monitoring
  • Once you will click on Add Alerts, you will get the below windows.
  • Select the Log Alert name
  • Descriptions
  • Subscription
  • Proper Resource Group Name.
  • Event Category : Administrator
  • Resource Type. Virtual Machine (Microsoft.compute/Virtual Machine)
  • Resource Group.
  • Operation Name: Restart .
  • Level : Critical , Low Medium.
  • Status: Started, Failed , Succeeded.
  • Select the
Azure Virtual Machine Alert Configuration
 
Step 3 - Email Alert Settings
  • Click on Action
  • Add New Group
  • Select the Name
  • Email ID
  • Select Ok
  • Alert Notification has been created.
Azure Virtual Machine Alert Configuration
 
Once you will finish above task, Alert been configured for you and you get an alert in case of any manintince windows.