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\"Service<\/a>I recently returned from Microsoft Ignite with a lot of information to share.\u00a0 Top of the list is Azure Service Health.\u00a0 If you are not familiar with Azure Service Health, keep reading.\u00a0 It\u2019s a simple service that is incredibly important to managing your Azure Environment.<\/p>\n

A link to a video version at the bottom of this post, or click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Azure Status<\/h2>\n

Before I get into Service health, I need to mention Azure Status.\u00a0 This page gives an overview of Azure status across all regions.\u00a0 The significant difference with Azure Status is that it\u2019s publicly available.\u00a0 That makes it useful for support staff that may not have access to your subscription.\u00a0 It is also helpful for quick checks without having to log in to the Azure Portal.\u00a0 Azure Status can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Service Health<\/h2>\n

Azure Status is nice, but for more granular information targeting your subscriptions and alerting you need to use Azure Service Health.\u00a0 Azure Service Health allows you to track service issues, planned maintenance and health advisories.<\/p>\n

Search for Service Health in the Azure dashboard to get started.\u00a0 Service Health has four sections, Active Events, History, Resource Health and Alerts.\u00a0 Active Events lists, as the name implies, events that are active.\u00a0 These fall under the category of current Service Issues, Planned Maintenance that may affect you and Health Advisories.<\/p>\n

Active Events<\/h2>\n

Service Health Active Events can be filtered by subscription, Region and Services so you can focus only on areas of concern.\u00a0 Service Issues has a couple other options including the ability to save your query and pin a filtered service map to your dashboard for a quick view of real-time Service Health.<\/p>\n

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If I was a great blogger, I would show images of Planned Maintenance and Health Advisories.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there is no active maintenance or advisories on my subscriptions to show you (now that I think about it, that\u2019s not unfortunate at all!)\u00a0 If there are planned maintenance or advisory notifications, the details will look similar to events in Health History I reference next.<\/p>\n

History<\/h2>\n

Service Health History is where you can find historical Azure Service Health events.\u00a0 Below are the details of the great South Central US outage of \u201918 that we will tell our grandchildren about someday.\u00a0 From this window you can share the link to the details, download a summary PDF, track with QR Code or tweet about it.\u00a0 There is also an Issue Update tab to follow along with the issues progress.<\/p>\n

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Resource Health<\/h2>\n

Azure Service Health gives you information about problems that affect a wide range of Azure Services, it would be helpful to see how that affects your services specifically.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Resource Health is about.\u00a0 Select your subscription and Resource Type to see the impact of any Azure Service problems on your resources.\u00a0 Below is what the current status looks like for one of my services.\u00a0 FWIW, it would be convenient to select multiple, or all services.\u00a0 Having to select one at a time is kind of a pain.<\/p>\n

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Health Status in Resource Health will have one of the fallowing status:<\/p>\n