Build Azure Monitor Alerts and Dashboards for Workload Health

Table of Contents

1. Challenge

   Confirm workload telemetry Is available

   1. Review the workload's Azure Monitor metrics and Application Insights telemetry.
   2. Confirm that recent requests, failures, and performance signals are available for operational review.
2. Challenge

   Select health signals for availability, errors, latency, and resource pressure

   1. Identify metrics that describe workload availability, request volume, failed requests, response time, and resource utilization.
   2. Use a small set of provided KQL queries to inspect recent failures, slow requests, or exceptions in Log Analytics or Application Insights.
3. Challenge

   Create an operational alert rule

   1. Configure an alert rule that targets a meaningful workload health condition such as elevated failed requests, HTTP 5xx responses, slow response time, or availability degradation.
   2. Configure severity, evaluation behavior, and an action group or notification placeholder that fits sandbox capabilities.
4. Challenge

   Build a workbook view for workload health review

   1. Create a workbook that combines metric charts and log-query results for availability, errors, latency, and resource pressure.
   2. Organize the workbook so an operator can quickly compare normal activity with unhealthy or degraded signals.
5. Challenge

   Validate the alert and workbook against expected activity

   1. Generate or identify controlled workload activity that produces normal, slow, or failed request telemetry.
   2. Confirm that the workbook reflects the activity and that the alert rule either fires or shows the expected evaluated condition.