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Alert emails for Azure Stack HCI health issues?
How do I set up alert emails, when the HCI cluster generates a health fault - like a volume running low on available space?
I am running Hci OS 22H2 and using WAC with the Dell plugin to manage.
I mean: If I had nothing else to do all day and night, I could sit and stare at WAC and I am sure that something would pop up. But that is not practical. Emails are practical.
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Microsoft has released the capability to monitor Azure Stack HCI clusters using "Azure Stack HCI Insights". Read more here:
Monitor HCI clusters with Azure Stack HCI Insights (preview) - Microsoft Community Hub
And read this to understand how to setup alerting:Set up alerts for Azure Stack HCI systems - Azure Stack HCI | Microsoft Learn
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Darryl van der Peijl
Splitbrain- Darryl
I've looked at this before and it does not provide email alerts for new health faults.
Azure Stack HCI Insights - your first link - is one more dashboard full of endless information, which I am sure is good for some. It does not do email alerts.
Your second link requires me to learn a strange new query language in order to be able to get the alerts I want. First of all, I do not want to learn that language. Second, I should not need to make decisions on my own about which alerts to get. Microsoft has already decided what constitutes a Health Fault, and that is what I want alerts for. Nothing else.
So I just want an email whenever Get-HealthFault returns a NEW fault. See this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/manage/health-service-faults.ThomasI1
The "Azure Stack HCI Insights" is using 'Log Analytics' in the background which is a logging store and query product. Azure Stack HCI makes sure that all relevant information is send to 'Log Analytics' so that you can query that data and add an action to it. It also sends the 'Health Service Faults'.
The "Azure Stack HCI Insights" is nothing more than a dashboard with defined queries against Log Analytics that show up visually in graphs or counters. With the data in 'Log Analytics' you can do anything you want, if you are willing to extend on it.
If you want an turnkey monitoring solution, this is indeed not it (yet). Pre-defined alerting rules with pre-defined queries is not something that is offered today.
You can either get someone to help you write the right queries or look at alternative products such as SCOM with the right management packs or 3rd party monitoring solutions with Azure Stack HCI / Storage Spaces Direct support.
Hope it helped!
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Darryl van der Peijl
Splitbrain
See if below URL can help:
Monitor health and alerts in Azure Stack Hub - Azure Stack Hub | Microsoft Learn
Azure Stack Hub is very different from Azure Stack HCI - which I am using.
See: Compare Azure Stack HCI to Azure Stack Hub - Azure Stack HCI | Microsoft Learn
So no. It does not help.
