We have already discussed dashboards and how important I feel they are, but I believe another underutilized part of monitoring is alerting. I put alerts around everything I can, include third-party integration endpoints which I learn the hardware when went go sideways. Alerting is based on action groups, which contain a unique set of recipients and actions in response to an alert. Alerts can be created under various scenarios and rules. I like to find out things before my clients do. You can read more about alerting at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-overview-unified-alerts. Let's take a quick look at how easy it is to set up an alert.
Head to the Alerts blade under the Monitor ...
