Quickstart: Monitor the status of your Azure Operator 5G Core Preview deployment

Azure Operator 5G Core Preview provides network function health check information using the Azure portal.

View health check information

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
  2. Search for the Azure operator 5G core resource.
  3. Navigate to the Network Functions Inventory & Health Checks screen. This screen lists all resources, along with the resource group, cluster, resource type, and deployment status.

Currently, the resource types supported are:

  • AMF: Access management function
  • SMF: Session management function
  • UPF: User plane function
  • NRF: Network repository function
  • NSSF: Network slice subnet function
  • Cluster Services: Cluster services contain the local PaaS components required to run workloads. These components are shared across all workloads running in the same cluster. For example, Redis, etcd, crds, istio, opa, otel, et cetera.
  • Observability Services: Observability services contain remote PaaS components, which can be shared across many workloads and across many clusters. For example, elastic, elastalert, alerta, jaeger, kibana, etc.

Deployment status has seven states:

  • Accepted
  • Provisioning
  • Updating
  • Running
  • Failed
  • Canceled
  • Deleting

The version value uses the following format: Two digit year, two digit month, dot, release build number. For example, 2405.0-31

screenshot displaying the Azure Operator 5G Core health check and network functions inventory. A column listing deployment status indicates the status of each resource deployed.

You can also view the status of pods in each cluster.

screenshot displaying the Azure Operator 5G Core health check and network functions inventory. A detail shows operational status of pods in a cluster.