How do I create an alert for when a VM is stopped?

Jason Benci 1 Reputation point
2022-03-10T17:32:12.067+00:00

How do I create an alert for when a VM is stopped? I can't seem to find the right criteria when creating a new alert rule.

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  1. Jasjit Chopra 6 Reputation points MVP
    2022-03-10T17:55:54.037+00:00

    It is under "Activity Log"

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    Hope this helps !

  2. Sudipta Chakraborty - MSFT 1,096 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-03-10T17:55:59.37+00:00

    To send an alert when a machine is unavailable. It could be stopped, the guest operating system could be unresponsive, or the agent could be unresponsive. There are various ways to configure this alerting, but the most common is to use the heartbeat sent from the Log Analytics agent.

    Query: 

    Heartbeat  
| summarize LastHeartbeat=max(TimeGenerated) by Computer   
| where LastHeartbeat < ago(5m)

    Reference:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/vm/monitor-virtual-machine-alerts#machine-unavailable

    Setting up alert using Log Analytics Query:
    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/premier-developer/alerts-based-on-analytics-query-using-custom-log-search/

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