Azure alert using an Azure Automation account when the status of a function app is detected as "stopped."

Question

Hi Community members,

I'm attempting to set up an Azure alert using an Azure Automation account when the status of a function app is detected as "stopped." In the provided image, two function apps have a status of "stopped." I've crafted a PowerShell script to gather all function app names with a "stopped" status and stored them in an array. Now, I'm looking for a way to create an Azure alert or an Action Group alert that includes the names and statuses of all function apps directly within PowerShell. Is there a method to accomplish this using PowerShell?

Answer 1

Mihir Hatankar, thank you for posting this question on Microsoft Q&A.

There is no direct way to generate an alert from PowerShell or using any API. However, there are ways through which this can be achieved, 2 of which are given below:

1. If you are only interested in getting an email notification with this information, you may use the information available in the following document to send email from Azure Automation Runbook.
2. Another way would be sending the information to Log Analytics Workspace's custom table as a log and creating log-based alert rule to trigger. Details of which are below. The query in this case will depend on the custom table created and its columns.

Tutorial: Send data to Azure Monitor Logs with Logs ingestion API (Azure portal)

Tutorial: Create a log query alert for an Azure resource

Hope this helps.

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