Trigger Azure Function from Azure Monitor alerts

Azure Monitor alerts are a great way of getting notified of any threshold breach of your resource metrics and helps to keep a tab on the health of the Azure resources in a timely manner. Wouldn’t it be great if the follow-up action for the alert is also taken care of !!? Oh yes, keep reading on please…

Azure Monitor alerts gives us the option of triggering an Azure Function as a follow-up action.

For illustration purposes let us consider setting up a ‘Heartbeat’ alert for an Azure Virtual Machine (VM). Heartbeat is a…