Azure offers a suite of experiences to keep you informed about the health of your cloud resources. This information includes current and upcoming issues such as service impacting events, planned maintenance, and other changes that may affect your availability.
Azure Service Health is a combination of three separate smaller services.
Azure status informs you of service outages in Azure on the Azure Status page. The page is a global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure regions. The status page is a good reference for incidents with widespread impact, but we strongly recommend that current Azure users leverage Azure service health to stay informed about Azure incidents and maintenance.
Service health provides a personalized view of the health of the Azure services and regions you're using. This is the best place to look for service impacting communications about outages, planned maintenance activities, and other health advisories because the authenticated Service Health experience knows which services and resources you currently use. The best way to use Service Health is to set up Service Health alerts to notify you via your preferred communication channels when service issues, planned maintenance, or other changes may affect the Azure services and regions you use.
Resource health provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources such as a specific virtual machine instance. Using Azure Monitor, you can also configure alerts to notify you of availability changes to your cloud resources. Resource Health along with Azure Monitor notifications will help you stay better informed about the availability of your resources minute by minute and quickly assess whether an issue is due to a problem on your side or related to an Azure platform event.
Together, these experiences provide you with a comprehensive view into the health of Azure, at the granularity that is most relevant to you.
Watch an overview of the Azure Status page, Azure Service Health, and Azure Resource Health
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This service supports Azure Lighthouse, which lets service providers sign in to their own tenant to manage subscriptions and resource groups that customers have delegated.
Learn how the Service Health portal provides you with a customizable dashboard which tracks the health of your Azure services in the regions where you use them.
We're updating the Azure Service Health portal experience to let users engage with service events and manage actions to maintain the business continuity of impacted applications.
Azure Service Health is a suite of experiences that provide personalized guidance and support when issues in Azure services affect you. Azure Service Health can notify you, help you understand the effect of an issue, and keep you updated as the issue resolves. Azure Service Health also can help you prepare for planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources.
Sample Azure Resource Graph queries for Azure Service Health showing use of resource types and tables to access Azure Service Health related resources and properties.