Welcome to Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (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: