How do I add an action group to an ARM template for a microsoft.insights/scheduledqueryrules resource version 2021-02-01-preview

Question

My template looks like this:

   {
        "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
        "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
        "parameters": {
            "serviceName": {
                "defaultValue": "xxxxxx",
                "type": "String"
            },
            "applicationInsightsScope": {
                "defaultValue": "/subscriptions/28905b82-4369-4ade-90ce-c28a45c31d40/resourceGroups/zuse1-hlt-rgp-q1-caas-appinsights/providers/microsoft.insights/components/caas",
                "type": "String"
            },
            "heapThresholdInBytes": {
                "defaultValue": "33333",
                "type": "String"
            },
            "jmxMetricsName": {
                "defaultValue": "xxxxxx Heap Memory Used",
                "type": "String"
            }
        },
        "variables": {},
        "resources": [
            {
                "type": "microsoft.insights/scheduledqueryrules",
                "apiVersion": "2021-02-01-preview",
                "name": "[concat(parameters('serviceName'), ' Heap Memory Threshold Exceeded')]",
                "location": "eastus",
                "properties": {
                    "displayName": "[concat(parameters('serviceName'), ' Heap Memory Threshold Exceeded')]",
                    "description": "Alerts if the heap memory usage is meeting the threshold.",
                    "severity": 2,
                    "enabled": true,
                    "evaluationFrequency": "PT15M",
                    "scopes": [
                        "[parameters('applicationInsightsScope')]"
                    ],
                    "windowSize": "PT1H",
                    "criteria": {
                        "allOf": [
                            {
                                "query": "[concat('let heapUsedThreshold = ', parameters('heapThresholdInBytes'), ';\nlet timeGrain = 5m;\ncustomMetrics\n| where name == \"', parameters('jmxMetricsName'),'\"\n| summarize AggregatedValue=percentiles(valueSum,95)  by name, cloud_RoleName, bin(timestamp, timeGrain)\n| where AggregatedValue > heapUsedThreshold')]",
                                "timeAggregation": "Count",
                                "operator": "GreaterThanOrEqual",
                                "threshold": 6,
                                "failingPeriods": {
                                    "numberOfEvaluationPeriods": 1,
                                    "minFailingPeriodsToAlert": 1
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "actions": {}
                }
            }
        ]
    }

This was mostly generated from an existing alert. It is confusing that the "actions" field is an object-type instead of an array. the "actions" in an ARM template for a microsoft.insights/metricalerts version 2018-03-01 is an array. For that type I used this and it works:
"actions": [
{
"actionGroupId": "[parameters('actionGroup')]",
"webHookProperties": {}
}
]
But it results in an error if I try it with the scheduledQueryRules type. I tried this, but it doesn't work either:
"actions":
{
"actionGroupId": "[parameters('actionGroup')]",
"webHookProperties": {}
}

I generated the template from a rule that actually has an action-group associated with it, so it's odd that it's empty and didn't get generated for me.

Answer 1

Hi,
The syntax for actions is the following

...  
 "actions": {  
  "actionGroups" : [  
     "<action Group resource id>"  
   ],  
   "customProperties": {  
       "property1": "value1",  
       "property2": "value2"  
   }  
}  
...  

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