Service Health notifications - data transitions

Service Health notifications in Azure transition from any Active pane to the History pane when the status of the event changes from Active to Resolved.

This move ensures that only ongoing issues remain visible in the Active view, while completed events are archived for reference.

In this article, you learn about the lifecycle of Service Health notifications, including the reasons for transitions between the panes, ways to view past records, and how long they're retained.

How notifications move from active to history

Each communication category panel - Incidents, Planned maintenance, Health advisories, Security advisories, and Billing updates - uses distinct logic to determine event transitions. This logic determines when an event moves from its category tab to the Health history panel as defined in this table.

Event Severity levels Event tags When Event is moved to Health history panel Event details moved from Health history panel, but available through REST API Event details archived and inaccessible through REST API
Service Issues Error - Widespread issues accessing multiple services across multiple regions are impacting a broad set of customers.
Warning - Issues accessing specific services and/or specific regions are impacting a subset of customers.
Informational - Issues impacting management operations and/or latency, not impacting service availability.
Action Recommended
- Final PIR
- Preliminary PIR
False Positive
90 days as long as it's active or updated When resolved One year from most recent published date
Planned maintenance Warning - Emergency Maintenance
Informational - Standard Planned Maintenance
N/A Schedule's EndDate passed
Or 50 days from Schedule's StartDate
90 days from most recent published date One year from most recent published date
Security Warning - Security advisory that affects existing services and might require administrator action
Informational - Security advisory that affects existing services
Action Recommended
- Final Post Incident Review (PIR)
- Preliminary PIR
False Positive
90 days from most recent published date One year from most recent published date
Health advisories Warning - Retirement reminder notifications for scenarios where less than 3 months are left from final date of Retirement
Informational - An administrator might be required to prevent an effect to existing services.
Retirement 90 days from most recent published date One year from most recent published date
Billing Informational - Issues impacting billing updates N/A 90 days from most recent published date One year from most recent published date

For more information, see Service Health notifications.