Azure Arc sites provide a centralized view to monitor groups of resources, but don't provide monitoring capabilities for the site overall. Instead, customers can set up alerts and monitoring for supported resources within a site. Once alerts are set up and triggered depending on the alert criteria, Azure Arc site manager (preview) makes the resource alert status visible within the site pages.

If you aren't familiar with Azure Monitor, learn more about how tomonitor Azure resources with Azure Monitor.

Prerequisites

• An Azure subscription. If you don't have a service subscription, create afree trial account in Azure.
• Azure portal access
• Internet connectivity
• A resource group or subscription or service group in Azure with at least one resource for a site. For more information, seeSupported resource types.

Configure alerts for sites in Azure Arc

This section provides basic steps for configuring alerts for sites in Azure Arc. For more detailed information about Azure Monitor, seeCreate or edit an alert rule.

To configure alerts for sites in Azure Arc, follow the below steps.

1. Navigate to Azure Monitor by searching formonitor within the Azure portal. SelectMonitor as shown.

   

2. On theMonitor overview, selectAlerts in either the navigation menu or the boxes shown in the primary screen.

   

3. On theAlerts page, you can manage existing alerts or create new ones.

   SelectAlert rules to see all of the alerts currently in effect in your subscription.

   SelectCreate to create an alert rule for a specific resource. If a resource is managed as part of a site, any alerts triggered via its rule appear in the site manager overview.

   

By having either existing alert rules or creating a new alert rule, once the rule is in place for resources supported by Azure Arc site monitor, any alerts that are triggered on that resource will be visible on the sites overview tab.

Next steps

To learn how to view alerts triggered from Azure Monitor for supported resources within site manager, seeHow to view alerts in site manager.