What is Azure Service Health?

Azure offers a suite of experiences to keep you informed about the health of your cloud resources. This information includes current and upcoming issues such as service impacting events, planned maintenance, and other changes that might affect your availability.

Azure Service Health is a combination of three separate smaller services.

Azure status informs you of service outages in Azure on the Azure Status page. The page is a global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure regions. The status page is a good reference for incidents with widespread effect, but we strongly recommend that current Azure users apply Azure service health to stay informed about Azure incidents and maintenance.

Service health offers a personalized view of the health of the Azure services and regions you use, providing service-impacting communications about outages, planned maintenance, and health advisories. By setting up Service Health alerts, you can receive notifications through your preferred communication channels about issues or changes that might affect your Azure resources.

Resource health provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources, such as a specific virtual machine instance.

Using Azure Monitor, you can configure alerts to notify you of availability changes to your cloud resources.

Resource Health, along with Azure Monitor notifications, helps you stay informed about the availability of your resources minute by minute. It also enables you to quickly assess whether an issue is due to a problem on your side or related to an Azure platform event.

Together, these experiences provide you with a comprehensive view into the health of Azure, at the granularity that is most relevant to you.