generate SMS alert on VM state of Failed is this possible?

Question

Like most folks I get a ton of notifications regarding my VMs in Azure across multiple subscriptions etc. they powered on they powered off etc, loads of jobs that run and so on. Today I had 2 VMs that were in a "failed" state. Looking into the message it said something about not enough resources in the region (west us). Be that as it may, is there a way to create an SMS alert for this VM state of failed only? I tried running thru the Alerts in Azure but there was nothing under Virtual Machines that looks to me like an event that could trigger the alert. I reached out to Azure support and they suggested posting here as well.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi @Rich Roy

Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A Platform .

Let me break my response in three parts here :

When does a VM go into a "Failed" state ?
When ever there is an update operation on the VM which eventually failed with X reason { In your case capacity } , The VM Might land into this inconstant state .

How an i recover VM provisioning state from Failed to Succussed ?
We will need to review the failure and troubleshoot/act on it accordingly

How can we Monitor all the failed operations on VM's and get notifications ?
Step 1 : Navigate to Alerts section of the VM and select Activity log-Administrative for CRUD :

Step 2 : Set Up alerting for only failed events :

This should alert you with when ever any update on the VM fails.

Hope this solution helps in your case , If so kindly accept the answer so that it can be useful for the community .

Thanks & Regards,
Pradeep

Answer 2

thanks for the very detailed response. It was most helpful. It does appear though you are possibly using a preview feature and I am not. I do not get the same wizard you show, nor do i have the option to configure actions. I will keep looking