Alerts of storage Queue message count

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Alerts of storage Queue message count

Uday Kasula 46

Queue alerts aren't working properly. It alerts me of a number (lets say 1000) and then when I login to see how much is the total queue count, it always below 500

The following are the snip the metric value is 2531 but in metric 949
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Ryan Hill 30,281 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-06T17:35:52.9166667+00:00

Hi @Uday Kasula just circling back to see if the provided post helped resolve your issue. Let us know if you have any further questions on this topic so we can better assist you. To benefit the broader community, please feel free to mark as answered.

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Ryan Hill 30,281 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-06T17:35:52.9166667+00:00

Hi @Uday Kasula just circling back to see if the provided post helped resolve your issue. Let us know if you have any further questions on this topic so we can better assist you. To benefit the broader community, please feel free to mark as answered.

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Ryan Hill 30,281 Microsoft Employee Moderator

Hi @Uday Kasula

The aggregation you're using is Average. One possible reason your alert isn't firing as expected is if your message count is fluctuating too frequently for the alert to fire, where the average is higher (or lower) than the actual count at any given time.

Try changing your aggregation type to total. This will trigger your alert at any given time your message count is above the desired threshold.

Rafael Caviquioli 20

I'm not able to create alerts based on QueueMessageCount via Azure Portal or Terraform.

I cannot see in the documentation any reason for my storage account not to have this metric.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/reference/supported-metrics/microsoft-storage-storageaccounts-queueservices-metrics

Via Terraform I get this error:

Error: creating or updating Monitor Metric Alert (Subscription: "xxx"
│ Resource Group Name: "xxx"
│ Metric Alert Name: "xxx"): unexpected status 400 (400 Bad Request) with response: {"code":"ResourceNotFound","message":"StatusCode=NotFound, ReasonPhrase=Not Found, responseContent={\"error\":{\"code\":\"HttpResourceNotFound\",\"message\":\"The request url https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/xxx/resourceGroups/xxx/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/xxx/queueServices/myqueue?api-version=2016-05-01 is not found.\"}} Activity ID: xxx."}

Magnus Karlsson 0 Reputation points

2025-01-28T08:05:41.39+00:00

When defining condition for an Alert on a Storage Account, the metric Queue Message Count only allows using aggregation type Average. How can I set the alert to use another aggregation type, like Total that you suggested?

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