Project Flash update: Azure VM availability monitoring upgraded

Project Flash, Microsoft  internal project name, comes from their dedication to providing a robust, reliable, and fast way for clients to monitor Azure virtual machine(VM) health

Microsoft Azure products with high-quality VM health data to start your observability journey. They include resource health, activity logs, Azure resource graph, Azure Monitor metrics, and Azure event grid

As part of Azure ongoing work to improve VM health detection, they are happy to introduce the degraded VM availability condition, which improves quality

Azure are pleased to introduce the public preview of the HealthResources event grid system subject with new Azure VM health annotations to enhance your daily operations!

The Flash initiative has spent years developing solutions for their customers’ different monitoring needs. Refer below to get the best Flash monitoring solution(s) for your needs

It can detect trends, aggregate platform indicators like CPU and storage consumption, and provide precise threshold-based warnings. Azure Monitor offers this VM availability metric

Scheduled events (SE) and Flash health events should be used to monitor VM availability during routine maintenance, live migration, service healing, and degradation