Individual Resource Health Diagnostics in Azure

What Azure Resource Health is

Azure Resource Health is a core component of the broader Azure Service Health suite that provides detailed diagnostic information about the health of individual Azure resource instances, such as virtual machines, database instances, or IoT hubs.

How it meets the requirement

• Granular resource diagnostics: Azure Resource Health diagnoses whether an individual resource is healthy, degraded, or unavailable, pinpointing whether an issue stems from platform downtime or user configuration.
• Targeted alerting: It allows administrators to create proactive resource health alerts that trigger notifications whenever a specific resource's operational status changes.
• Integration with Service Health: It complements high-level service incident views by focusing strictly on the specific resource instances deployed in a subscription.

Key advantages and capabilities

• Current and historical health data: Displays both the real-time status and historical timeline of health events for a specific resource.
• Root-cause insights: Distinguishes between Azure platform-level issues (such as hardware faults or host updates) and customer-initiated actions (such as stopping a service).
• Automated notification integration: Integrates with action groups to send email, SMS, or webhook notifications when resource availability changes.
• Direct portal accessibility: Accessible directly from the resource blade in the Azure portal under the help and support menus.

Why this is optimal

While Azure Monitor tracks telemetry metrics and Azure Service Health tracks broad subscription-impacting service incidents, Azure Resource Health is the exact tool designed to monitor and alert on the health state of individual resource instances.