AZ-900 Practice Question 10: Azure Service Health
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 1 · question 10 of 10
An operations team keeps hearing about Azure platform incidents from users before they hear about them from Microsoft. They want alerts that cover only the Azure services and regions their own subscription actually uses, and that also cover upcoming planned maintenance. Which service should they configure?
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Answer:
Service Health gives a personalized view of the health of the Azure services and regions that a subscription uses, covering outages, planned maintenance, and health advisories, and you can configure Service Health alerts to push those communications to email, SMS, or a webhook. That matches every part of the requirement.
Option A, the Azure Status page, is the global view of all Azure services in all regions. It is useful for widespread incidents but it is not filtered to your subscription and Microsoft explicitly recommends Service Health instead for existing customers. Option C, Azure Advisor, produces best-practice recommendations across reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational excellence; it is advice about your configuration, not notification of platform incidents. Option D, Application Insights, monitors the availability and performance of your own application code; it would show the symptoms of an Azure outage but would never tell you Microsoft has scheduled maintenance next Tuesday.
Reference: What is Azure Service Health?