Azure ARM Template for Service Health

There have been a few changes to how Azure is surfacing health data for the platform itself.  For more information on a new service in preview, please see this link.  Monitoring the platform for health issues is an important part of any overall monitoring strategy.

In the examples, they provide a walk through of how to enable this service using the portal.  This post expands on that by providing an ARM template to do the same thing (in this case an email alert).

You can apply this to any of your subs.

Enjoy!

{
    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
    "parameters": {
        "actionGroups_name": {
            "defaultValue": "SubHealth",
            "type": "String"
        },
        "activityLogAlerts_name": {
            "defaultValue": "ServiceHealthActivityLogAlert",
            "type": "String"
        },
        "emailAddress":{
            "type":"string"
        }
    },
    "variables": {
        "alertScope":"[concat('/','subscriptions','/',subscription().subscriptionId)]"
    },
    "resources": [
        {
            "comments": "Action Group",
            "type": "microsoft.insights/actionGroups",
            "name": "[parameters('actionGroups_name')]",
            "apiVersion": "2017-04-01",
            "location": "Global",
            "tags": {},
            "scale": null,
            "properties": {
                "groupShortName": "[parameters('actionGroups_name')]",
                "enabled": true,
                "emailReceivers": [
                    {
                        "name": "[parameters('actionGroups_name')]",
                        "emailAddress": "[parameters('emailAddress')]"
                    }
                ],
                "smsReceivers": [],
                "webhookReceivers": []
            },
            "dependsOn": []
        },
        {
            "comments": "Service Health Activity Log Alert",
            "type": "microsoft.insights/activityLogAlerts",
            "name": "[parameters('activityLogAlerts_name')]",
            "apiVersion": "2017-04-01",
            "location": "Global",
            "tags": {},
            "scale": null,
            "properties": {
                "scopes": [
                    "[variables('alertScope')]"
                ],
                "condition": {
                    "allOf": [
                        {
                            "field": "category",
                            "equals": "ServiceHealth"
                        },
                        {
                            "field": "properties.incidentType",
                            "equals": "Incident"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "actions": {
                    "actionGroups": [
                        {
                            "actionGroupId": "[resourceId('microsoft.insights/actionGroups', parameters('actionGroups_name'))]",
                            "webhookProperties": {}
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "enabled": true,
                "description": ""
            },
            "dependsOn": [
                "[resourceId('microsoft.insights/actionGroups', parameters('actionGroups_name'))]"
            ]
        }
    ]
}