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Azure Local monitoring Queries

Bollapu vishnu Vardhan reddy3 160 Reputation points
2025-07-18T06:58:06.8233333+00:00

Hi All,

Has anyone so far enabled the Azure local Monitoring via Azure Monitor, if yes what are the configured alert you have enabled

I was exploring below link and when checking the recommended alerts they are only few which are not sufficient

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-local/manage/monitor-cluster-with-metrics?view=azloc-2506&tabs=storage-performance

When exploring more I could see some alerts get auto triggered if a Volume is inaccessible or a Cluster Heartbeat is lost event though they are not configured, but it got triggered with any alert rule

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Are the above are like similar to SCOM service pack where once enabled they will be monitored by default.

Also, how can I have the alert forwarded to my mail/ITSM[I agree that we can write custom log search and then write alert rule to forward it to EMAIL/ITSM, but these alerts are auto generating once you enable Monitoring]

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  1. Muskan Tomar 470 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2025-07-21T13:20:09.92+00:00

    Hey Vishnu, great question!

    Yes, once you enable Azure Local Monitoring, some alerts (like volume inaccessibility or heartbeat loss) are auto-generated even without explicitly configuring them. These are built-in platform alerts, similar in spirit to how SCOM monitors core components once a management pack is enabled.

    That said, they’re not full equivalents to SCOM packs—Azure Monitor uses resource-level platform metrics and activity logs. The link you shared covers only the recommended alerts, but you can definitely go beyond them using custom log queries via Log Analytics.

    To forward these alerts to email/ITSM:

    For custom alerts: create a Log Search Alert → set the action group with Email or ITSM connector.

    • For platform auto-alerts: you can still hook them into an action group by going to Activity Log Alerts in Azure Monitor and setting up alert rules for specific service health or resource condition events.

    So yes, you can capture and route both kinds of alerts—just need to configure the appropriate action group for forwarding.

    Hope this answers your queries. Feel free to reach out incase required.

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  1. Bollapu vishnu Vardhan reddy3 160 Reputation points
    2025-08-22T06:52:57.8333333+00:00

    Hello

    Thank you for the reply.

    I understand that certain alerts are automatically generated. I'd like to know exactly which ones are built-in, so I can focus on configuring custom log search alerts only for the remaining scenarios that aren't covered by default.

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  2. Bollapu vishnu Vardhan reddy3 160 Reputation points
    2025-08-22T07:00:30.39+00:00
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