Alerts in Azure Monitor

• Alerts are about notifying when issues are found with your infrastructure or application using your monitoring data
• Alerts in Azure Monitor proactively notify you of critical conditions and potentially attempt to take corrective action
• Alert rules
  • Alert rules based on metrics -> provide near real time alerts based on numeric values
  • Alert rules based on logs -> allow for complex logic across data from multiple sources

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-overview

Metric Alert

Log Alert

Activity log Alert