How to Configure Alert in Azure

Introduction

In cloud environments, maintaining the health and performance of resources is crucial. Azure Alerts provide a proactive way to monitor workloads, identify performance issues, and respond quickly to potential problems. By configuring alerts, administrators can be immediately notified of critical changes in system performance, ensuring minimal downtime and improved efficiency. This project focuses on setting up alerts for Azure compute services, specifically monitoring virtual machine performance, and ensuring that notifications are delivered to the right team members for timely action.

Objectives

The main objectives of this project are:

• Create an action group to send an email notification when an alert is triggered.
• Configure an alert for virtual machine CPU utilization to monitor resource performance in real time.

Step 1 Create an action group to send an email

This simply means: “Set up who should get a message when something goes wrong.”
Think of it like adding emergency contacts on your phone. When a problem happens in Azure, an email will go to the people you chose, so they can quickly take action.

• In the Azure Portal Search Bar, enter Monitor and select Monitor from the list of results.

• Select Alerts in the navigation menu.
• Choose Action Groups.

• On the Action Groups page, choose Create.

• On the Basics page of the Create Action Group wizard, configure the following settings and choose Next.

Property Value
Subscription Your subscription
Resource Group SankidRG
Region Global
Action group name NotifyCPU
Display Name NotifyCPU

• On the Notifications page, set the notification type to Email/SMS message/Push/Voice and the Name to NotificationEmail. Choose the Edit (pencil) icon.
• On the Email/SMS message/Push/Voice enable the email checkbox and enter the address [e-mail]. Choose OK.
• Choose Review and Create. Choose Create.

• Choose Create.

• Action group as been successfully created

• Notification email sent to the person added under the action group

Step 2 Create an alert for virtual machine CPU utilization

This means: “Tell Azure to watch the computer’s brain (CPU).”
If the CPU is working too hard (too much usage), Azure will raise a flag and send the alert to the action group (the people you set up in Task 1). This helps you know early when your virtual machine is struggling, so you can fix it before it crashes or slows down.

• In the Azure Portal Search Bar, enter SankidsRG select SankidsRG from the list of results.

• Select SankidsRG from the list of results.

• From the list of items in the resource group, choose SankidsLinuxVm.

• On the SankidsLinuxVm properties page, choose Alerts under Monitoring.
• On the Alerts page, choose Create and then choose Alert rule.

• On the Condition page of the Create an Alert Rule wizard, set the Signal name to Percentage CPU. Use the default settings and choose Next.

• On the Actions page, choose Select Action Group.
• On the Select Action Groups page, choose NotifyCPU and choose Select.

• On the Details page enter the Alert rule name HighCPU. Choose Review and Create. choose Create.

• choose Create.

• Alert rule as been created successfully

Conclusion

By completing this project, we successfully demonstrated how to configure alerts in Azure to enhance monitoring and response capabilities. Creating an action group ensures that the right stakeholders receive timely notifications, while setting up a CPU utilization alert helps track and prevent potential performance bottlenecks. Overall, this project highlights the importance of proactive monitoring in maintaining system reliability and ensuring business continuity.