Welcome to AMBA!

Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) streamlines your Azure experience by providing a set of essential metrics and guidelines to ensure your Azure services are performing optimally. AMBA is your go-to for a proactive and informed Azure monitoring approach! Here’s what you need to know:

• Expert Recommendations: Access a comprehensive list of alert recommendations and expert guidance for Azure resources.

• Stay Alert: Get near real-time notifications to quickly pinpoint issues and visualize alerts from Azure through dashboards.

• Automation Policies: Deploy alert policies easily and consistently with Azure Policy templates.

• Guided Documentation: Find detailed guidance to establish a solid alerting foundation.

• Enhanced Resiliency: Automate Service Health alerts deployment to tackle common resiliency challenges.

The site is organized into three main sections:

• Azure Resources: Find per resource level guidance on individual Azure services, including key alert metrics, recommended thresholds, deployment templates, and reference documentation.

• Patterns / Scenarios: Deploy monitoring at scale with specialized patterns such as Azure Landing Zones, along with policy definitions and initiatives for deploying alerts in your environment.

• Visualizations: Create data-driven monitoring solutions to visually understand your alerts and key metrics. Use Azure Managed Grafana and Azure Workbooks to deploy real-time, personalized dashboards.

Each main section of Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts can be considered as its own level, with associated monitoring subsections:

AMBA supports three types of activity alerts to monitor your Azure resources. These alerts help you stay informed about the status and health of your Azure services:

• Alerts for logs and metrics: These keep track of your system’s logs and performance metrics.

• Alerts with static thresholds: These trigger when certain predefined limits are reached.

• Alerts with dynamic thresholds: These adapt based on patterns and trends in your data.

Learn more about monitoring and improve your observability story with these quick links:

• Stay Updated on Service Health:

  • Set up Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts for Azure Services.

  • Get insights on Microsoft 365 with Microsoft 365 monitoring.

• Visualize your Service Health:

  • Explore the Observability at Scale repository for monitoring at scale.

  • Follow best practices and recommendations for designing and creating a monitoring system.

• Deep Insights into Critical Workloads:

  • Gain in-depth views with Azure Mission Critical monitoring.

• Specialized Workload Monitoring:

  • Keep an eye on your Azure specialized workloads with Monitor Azure platform landing zone components.

Explore your end-to-end monitoring journey:

Below, you’ll find the latest updates and solutions we’ve added to enhance your experience with AMBA.

New: Monitoring solutions for AI on Azure Platforms (PaaS) and AI Specialized Workload Patterns (GPT-RAG)

• Details: We’ve showcased new links to alert guidelines for AI on Azure platform services. Additionally, you’ll discover alert guidelines for common Azure services used to build enterprise-level AI applications. We’ve also introduced alert settings for GPT-RAG pattern setups. These settings include metrics and threshold recommendations for services involved in AI RAG pattern architectures.
• Benefits: Improved monitoring and alerting for AI solutions on Azure.

New: Deploy monitoring for Azure OpenAI

• Details: We’ve showcased new information on monitoring for AI services, including a workbook monitoring solution for Azure OpenAI, which offers deep insights into Azure OpenAI resources and usage. Additionally, we’ve implemented new key alert metrics for Azure OpenAI services.
• Benefits: Improved solutions and alert metrics for monitoring Azure OpenAI.

New: Alerts for Azure Machine Learning workspace

• Details: We’ve implemented new alerts for Azure Machines Learning workspaces, including alerts for Quota Utilization Percentage, Model Deploy Failed, and Unusable Nodes.
• Benefits: Improved monitoring and alerting for Azure Machine Learning.

New: Updated homepage for AMBA

• Details: We’ve updated the AMBA homepage with new and improved content, graphics, and interactive tables for an enhanced learning experience. New resources and quick links are included for the development of strong observability and monitoring.
• Benefits: Enhanced functionality, reader experience, and increased monitoring resources.

New: Alerts for Azure VMware Solution Private Clouds

• Details: We’ve implemented new alerts for AVS Private Clouds, including alerts for CPU usage per cluster, memory usage per cluster, and storage usage per datastore.
• Benefits: Improved monitoring and alerting for health and performance of AVS Private Clouds.

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