Microsoftdocs Agent Skills

Included skill

Azure Service Health

Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when handling Service Health APIs, Resource Graph queries, webhooks, VM Resource Health, or retirement alerts, and other Azure Service Health related development tasks. Not for Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Reliability (use azure-reliability), Azure Resiliency (use azure-resiliency).

Source: /skills/azure-service-health/SKILL.md

Azure Service Health Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Service Health. Covers troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category Lines Description
Troubleshooting L34-L38 Understanding VM Resource Health annotations, diagnosing VM health issues, and troubleshooting platform or user-caused VM availability and performance problems
Decision Making L39-L44 Guidance on selecting and interpreting Azure retirement alerts, and mapping retirement notices to specific resources to assess impact and plan mitigation.
Limits & Quotas L45-L49 Details on how long Azure Service Health notifications are kept, their lifecycle stages, and retention behavior for different event types and channels
Security L50-L58 Managing who can see Azure Service Health and security advisories using tenant/subscription roles and RBAC, including configuring access scopes and viewing security-related notifications.
Configuration L59-L66 Configuring Service Health and Resource Health alerts via ARM/Bicep/PowerShell and querying Service Health data/fields with Azure Resource Graph.
Integrations & Coding Patterns L67-L77 Using APIs, Resource Graph, webhooks, and connectors (OpsGenie, PagerDuty, ServiceNow) to programmatically access, query, and route Azure Service Health and Security advisories

Troubleshooting

Topic URL
Interpret and troubleshoot VM Resource Health annotations https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-health-vm-annotation

Decision Making

Topic URL
Choose Azure retirement alert signals effectively https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-retirement-alerting-guidance
Correlate retirement events to impacted Azure resources https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-retirement-unified-impact-queries

Limits & Quotas

Topic URL
Understand lifecycle and retention of Service Health notifications https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-notification-transitions

Security

Topic URL
Understand tenant admin roles for Service Health access https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/admin-access-reference
Manage Azure Service Health history access with RBAC https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/health-history-overview
Configure subscription access for Azure Security advisories https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-add-subscription
Access and view Azure Service Health security advisories https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-elevated-access
Configure tenant vs subscription access for Service Health https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/subscription-vs-tenant

Configuration

Topic URL
Define Service Health alert rules using ARM templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-arm
Configure Service Health activity log alerts with Bicep https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/alerts-activity-log-service-notifications-bicep
Understand Azure Resource Graph fields for Service Health https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/azure-resource-graph-overview
Configure Resource Health alerts with PowerShell and ARM templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-health-alert-powershell-template

Integrations & Coding Patterns

Topic URL
Access Azure Security advisories via API endpoint https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/access-service-advisories-api
Run Azure Resource Graph queries for Resource Health https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-health-samples
Query Azure Service Health impacted resources with Resource Graph https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-impacted-samples
Query Azure Service Health with Resource Graph https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-graph-samples
Integrate Azure Service Health alerts via webhooks https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-guide
Forward Azure Service Health alerts to OpsGenie https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-opsgenie
Integrate Azure Service Health alerts with PagerDuty webhooks https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-pagerduty
Send Azure Service Health alerts to ServiceNow https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-alert-webhook-servicenow