While status.azure.com shows major issues that affect all Azure customers globally, Azure Service Health provides a personalized view of service health. It displays both major and minor issues, but only those that could directly affect your subscriptions, resource groups, and resources.
What Azure Service Health Shows
Azure Service Health provides information across several categories:
- Service issues – including outages that affect specific regions or services.
- Planned maintenance events – notifications about upcoming work that may affect your resources.
- Health advisories – such as service retirements or quota usage warnings.
- Security advisories – urgent alerts about vulnerabilities or security-related information.
- Health history – past incidents and their resolutions, helping with reporting and analysis.
Health Alerts
Azure Service Health allows you to set up health alerts to proactively notify you when an issue arises. These alerts can be sent via:
- Email,
- Text message,
- Push notifications,
- Webhooks, and more.
This ensures that administrators know about potential issues as soon as possible.
Resource Health
In addition to service-wide health, Resource Health lets you diagnose and get support for service problems at the individual resource level. Resources are categorized with health states such as low, medium, or high impact, providing a more granular view of availability and stability.
Additional Features
Azure Service Health also provides:
- A personalized dashboard to track your own issues.
- The ability to download official reports and root cause analyses (RCAs).
- And it is free of charge to all Azure customers.
Why Azure Service Health Matters
Azure Service Health is an important monitoring tool that complements:
- Azure Advisor for proactive recommendations,
- Azure Monitor for resource-level monitoring, and
- Azure Policy and resource locks for governance.
Together, these services help ensure that your Azure environment remains stable, reliable, and compliant.
Next Steps
For AZ-900, focus on the difference between status.azure.com (global Azure status) and Azure Service Health (personalized status for your environment).
If you want a structured overview of all AZ-900 exam topics, our AZ-900 video course explains each fundamental in simple, clear language – or go back to the AZ-900 list of topics.
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