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ScottAllison
Iron Contributor
Oct 03, 2018

Alert "Monitor Condition" never changes

We're starting our journey from SCOM to Azure Monitor and have run into an issue with Azure Alerts (sorry for posting this in Azure Log Analytics, but there is no Azure Monitor Tech Community).

 

I've noticed that when an Azure Alert is generated, that the Monitor Condition never changes from "Fired" to "Resolved". According to the documentation, the Monitor Condition, "Indicates whether the condition that created a metric alert has been resolved. Metric alert rules sample a particular metric at regular intervals. If the criteria in the alert rule is met, then a new alert is created with a condition of "fired." When the metric is sampled again, if the criteria is still met, then nothing happens. If the criteria is not met, then the condition of the alert is changed to "resolved." The next time that the criteria is met, another alert is created with a condition of "fired.""

Despite the condition no longer being met (for instance, a service down), the Monitor Condition never changes. Am I missing something?

 

25 Replies

    • Noa Kuperberg's avatar
      Noa Kuperberg
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      I've reached out to the alerts PM (Yaniv.Lavi@microsoft.com), awaiting his update on this.

      • andersbaumann's avatar
        andersbaumann
        Copper Contributor

        Hi Noa. 

        I posted a similar question on Stackoverflow and with a little help I found the reason of my issue. I changed the aggregation count from "Count" to "Total" and that resolved the alert.

         

        https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59009802/azure-alert-only-fired-once/59014950#59014950

  • ScottAllison 

    Hi there

    I was out of the office for the last 6 months, and don't know what the status is yet. While I'm trying to get an answer, you are also welcome to contact the product manager of this here: Yaniv.Lavi@microsoft.com

     

    Thanks for bringing this up again

  • Steven Whitney's avatar
    Steven Whitney
    Copper Contributor

    Did anything ever come of this?  I'm seeing this behavior right now with V2 (non-classic) log-search-based alerts.  I can't access the yammer thread, any info would be appreciated.

      • mxm478's avatar
        mxm478
        Copper Contributor

        ScottAllison 

         

        This is driving me crazy. I am doing everything to get a list of Acknowledged alerts so our jr staff can have insight.

    • Noa Kuperberg's avatar
      Noa Kuperberg
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      I read Vijay's response about query based alerts, and I don't understand the logic. Added another question to him on that Yammer thread.

      Thanks for bringing that up.

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