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Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal
Learn how to create and manage action groups in the Azure portal.
dkamstra
azure-monitor
azure-monitor
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09/12/2018
dukek
alerts

Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal

Overview

An action group is a collection of notification preferences defined by the user. Azure Monitor and Service Health alerts are configured to use a specific action group when the alert is triggered. Various alerts may use the same action group or different action groups depending on the user's requirements.

This article shows you how to create and manage action groups in the Azure portal.

Each action is made up of the following properties:

  • Name: A unique identifier within the action group.
  • Action type: The action to perform. Examples include sending a voice call, SMS, email; or triggering various types of automated actions. See types later in this article.
  • Details: The corresponding details which vary by action type.

For information on how to use Azure Resource Manager templates to configure action groups, see Action group Resource Manager templates.

Create an action group by using the Azure portal

  1. In the portal, select Monitor. The Monitor blade consolidates all your monitoring settings and data in one view.

    The "Monitor" service

  2. Select Alerts then select Manage action groups.

    Manage Action Groups button

  3. Select Add action group, and fill in the fields.

    The "Add action group" command

  4. Enter a name in the Action group name box, and enter a name in the Short name box. The short name is used in place of a full action group name when notifications are sent using this group.

    The Add action group" dialog box

  5. The Subscription box autofills with your current subscription. This subscription is the one in which the action group is saved.

  6. Select the Resource group in which the action group is saved.

  7. Define a list of actions by providing each action's:

    a. Name: Enter a unique identifier for this action.

    b. Action Type: Select Email/SMS/Push/Voice, Logic App, Webhook, ITSM, or Automation Runbook.

    c. Details: Based on the action type, enter a phone number, email address, webhook URI, Azure app, ITSM connection, or Automation runbook. For ITSM Action, additionally specify Work Item and other fields your ITSM tool requires.

  8. Select OK to create the action group.

Manage your action groups

After you create an action group, it's visible in the Action groups section of the Monitor blade. Select the action group you want to manage to:

  • Add, edit, or remove actions.
  • Delete the action group.

Action specific information

Azure app Push - You may have up to 10 Azure app actions in an Action Group. At this time the Azure app action only supports ServiceHealth alerts. Any other alert time will be ignored. See configure alerts whenever a service health notification is posted.

Email - Emails will be sent from the following email addresses. Ensure that your email filtering is configured appropriately

You may have up to 1000 email actions in an Action Group. See the rate limiting information article

ITSM - You may have up to 10 ITSM actions in an Action Group ITSM Action requires an ITSM Connection. Learn how to create an ITSM Connection.

Logic App - You may have up to 10 Logic App actions in an Action Group

Runbook - You may have up to 10 Runbook actions in an Action Group Refer to the Azure subscription service limits for limits on Runbook payloads

SMS - You may have up to 10 SMS actions in an Action Group See the rate limiting information article See the SMS alert behavior article

Voice - You may have up to 10 Voice actions in an Action Group See the rate limiting information article

Webhook - You may have up to 10 Webhook actions in an Action Group. Retry logic - The timeout period for a response is 10 seconds. The webhook call will be retried a maximum of 2 times when the following HTTP status codes are returned: 408, 429, 503, 504 or the HTTP endpoint does not respond. The first retry happens after 10 seconds. The second and last retry happens after 100 seconds.

Source IP address ranges - 13.106.57.181 - 13.106.54.3 - 13.106.54.19 - 13.106.38.142 - 13.106.38.148 - 13.106.57.196

To receive updates about changes to these IP addresses we recommend you configure a Service Health alert which monitors for Informational notifications about the Action Groups service.

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