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Create Alerts In Microsoft Azure

Purpose

Example

1. Create a virtual machine.
2. Inside the virtual machine, create an action group.
3. Create an alert.

Create A Virtual Machine

Create An Action Group

1. Click on the virtual machine name.


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2. In the details screen, search the "alert".
3. In the "alerts" section, there is an option to create an action.


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4. In the Manage actions screen, there is a button with the caption "Add action group" for adding a new action group. Click on the button.


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5. In the add screen, enter the fields "Action group name" and the "Display name".


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6. Click on the button "Next: Notifications >".
7. In the notification section, select the "Notification type". For this example, I am selecting the option "Email/SMS message/Push/Voice".
8. Once the select the option, you have any option to configure all the notification types. For this example. I am only configuring email.


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It means whenever any event occurs, an email will be sent on the given email address.


9. Click on the button "Review + create" and finally click the "Create" button to create an action group.

Create An Alert

1. Click on the "New alert rule" button.


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2. A create rule screen will come. In the first part of the screen, the scope of an alert will be displayed.


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As we are creating an alert for a virtual machine, so the scope is the virtual machine "VM1".


3. In the second section, you have to specify the trigger i.e. the event when action should take place. For doing that, click on the link "Select condition".
4. A slider window will appear on the right-hand side. In the slider window, select the "Signal Name" as "Start Virtual Machine (Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines)".


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5. On click of the signal name, another image will appear. Click on the "Done" button.


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6. Finally, enter the rule name and click on the "Create alert rule" button.


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