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Replication lag metric for Azure SQL DB is now in public preview

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mhyon
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Aug 27, 2025
Azure SQL Database offers business continuity capabilities to recover quickly from regional disasters.  Features such as active geo-replication and failover groups provide continuous replication of t...
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Updated Sep 03, 2025
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davidkarlsen
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Sep 01, 2025

This is great - we'd had it in the backlog for a long time to be able to monitor and alert on the lag. But attempting to create azure monitor alerts on this metric fails with "?api-version=2018-03-01": context deadline exceeded" when using terraform - and also creating alerts in the portal fails.

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    mhyon
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    Sep 03, 2025

    Hello David, glad to hear this is filling a need for you.  The issue has been resolved, and you should be able to create alerts.

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      davidkarlsen
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      Sep 04, 2025

      Still fails...