Create activity log alerts in Azure

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Alerting can be enabled for:

  • specific actions (example: vm deleted, adding new rules to users)
  • service health events

references:

MS Learn

activity log alerts have their own attributes:

  • Category: Administrative, service health, autoscale, policy, or recommendation
  • Scope: Resource level, resource group level, or subscription level
  • Resource group: Where the alert rule is saved
  • Resource type: Namespace for the target of the alert
  • Operation name: Operation name
  • Level: Verbose, informational, warning, error, or critical
  • Status: Started, failed, or succeeded
  • Event initiated by: Email address or Microsoft Entra identifier (known as the “caller”) for the user