Question

A company runs several production workloads across multiple Azure subscriptions. The operations team wants to be proactively notified whenever Azure declares a planned maintenance event or a service outage that could affect the regions where their resources are deployed. The notification must reach an on-call distribution list and trigger an automated remediation runbook. Which monitoring solution should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Configure a Service Health alert based on the Activity Log and associate it with an action group that emails the distribution list and runs an Azure Automation runbook.

Answer

Create a metric alert on each virtual machine's availability metric with an action group that emails the distribution list.

Answer

Enable diagnostic settings on all resources to route platform logs to a Log Analytics workspace and schedule a daily KQL query.

Answer

Configure an Azure Resource Health check and manually review the Resource Health blade in the portal each morning.