Task: Use Alerts

Video: Managing Alerts

Estimated time: 30 minutes

Goal

In this task you will configure and trigger an alert for a web app. First you will provision a web app loaded with a test application. Then you will configure an alert for any server errors. Finally you will use the test application to trigger the alert.

Pre-requisites

Azure subscription

Requirements

Provision a web app
Configure an alert
Trigger the alert

Requirement 1: Provision a web app

You will provision a web app by deploying an ARM template and verify that it works as expected.

Use the following script from within a bash cloud shell:

az group create -n task-alert -l eastus
az group deployment create -n webapp -g task-alert --template-uri https://inedemoassets.blob.core.windows.net/taskfiles/azure/deploy-webapp.json

Navigate to the web app and confirm that it loads. Click the Ping check button and confirm that you get a success message.

Requirement 2: Configure an alert

You will configure an action group and an alert on the web app. The action group will send an e-mail to you, and the action will trigger on any server errors.

Use the following settings for the action group:

Setting	Value
Name	standard-email
Short name	email
Resource group	task-alert
Action
Name	email-action
Action type	Email/SMS/Push/Voice
Email	Checked
Email	<your email>

Use the following settings for the alert rule:

Setting	Value
Resource	<your web app>
Condition	Total Http Server Errors greater than 5
Action group	standard-email
Alert name	Web Server Errors
Description	Send an alert whenever there are multiple server errors thrown.
Severity	3
Enabled	Yes

Requirement 3: Trigger the alert

Finally you will use the test web application to trigger the alert. Navigate to the web app home page, then trigger the alert using the following process:

Click the Network load button.
Set the Number of Requests to 100.
Set the Response size to 10.
Check the Generate error? box.
Click Execute. This should generate more than 5 errors.
Wait for the e-mail to arrive.

Note: It may take several minutes for the e-mail to arrive.

Clean up

Delete the task-alert resource group.

Solution

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