Azure Service Health Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Service Health. Covers troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category	Lines	Description
Troubleshooting	L34-L38	Understanding VM Resource Health annotations, diagnosing VM health issues, and troubleshooting platform or user-caused VM availability and performance problems
Decision Making	L39-L44	Guidance on selecting and interpreting Azure retirement alerts, and mapping retirement notices to specific resources to assess impact and plan mitigation.
Limits & Quotas	L45-L49	Details on how long Azure Service Health notifications are kept, their lifecycle stages, and retention behavior for different event types and channels
Security	L50-L58	Managing who can see Azure Service Health and security advisories using tenant/subscription roles and RBAC, including configuring access scopes and viewing security-related notifications.
Configuration	L59-L66	Configuring Service Health and Resource Health alerts via ARM/Bicep/PowerShell and querying Service Health data/fields with Azure Resource Graph.
Integrations & Coding Patterns	L67-L77	Using APIs, Resource Graph, webhooks, and connectors (OpsGenie, PagerDuty, ServiceNow) to programmatically access, query, and route Azure Service Health and Security advisories

Troubleshooting

Topic	URL
Interpret and troubleshoot VM Resource Health annotations	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-health-vm-annotation

Decision Making

Topic	URL
Choose Azure retirement alert signals effectively	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-retirement-alerting-guidance
Correlate retirement events to impacted Azure resources	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-retirement-unified-impact-queries

Limits & Quotas

Topic	URL
Understand lifecycle and retention of Service Health notifications	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-notification-transitions

Security

Topic	URL
Understand tenant admin roles for Service Health access	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/admin-access-reference
Manage Azure Service Health history access with RBAC	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/health-history-overview
Configure subscription access for Azure Security advisories	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-add-subscription
Access and view Azure Service Health security advisories	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-elevated-access
Configure tenant vs subscription access for Service Health	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/subscription-vs-tenant

Configuration

Topic	URL
Define Service Health alert rules using ARM templates	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-arm
Configure Service Health activity log alerts with Bicep	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-bicep
Understand Azure Resource Graph fields for Service Health	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/azure-resource-graph-overview
Configure Resource Health alerts with PowerShell and ARM templates	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-health-alert-powershell-template

Integrations & Coding Patterns

Topic	URL
Access Azure Security advisories via API endpoint	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/access-service-advisories-api
Run Azure Resource Graph queries for Resource Health	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-health-samples
Query Azure Service Health impacted resources with Resource Graph	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-impacted-samples
Query Azure Service Health with Resource Graph	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-samples
Integrate Azure Service Health alerts via webhooks	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-guide
Forward Azure Service Health alerts to OpsGenie	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-opsgenie
Integrate Azure Service Health alerts with PagerDuty webhooks	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-pagerduty
Send Azure Service Health alerts to ServiceNow	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-servicenow