Subscribe to Azure App Services Announcements | Azure outage

Subscribe to Azure App Services Announcements 

is there any Azure outage?

Issue:

·       How can I get the auto notification for any changes/update in Azure App Service?

·       Can I get email/notification for any new feature in azure app service?

·       How can I know about breaking changes in azure app service?

·       Is there any Azure outage going on?

Solution:

I discovered how we can get automated notifications from Azure App Services team on the latest announcements. So if you ever wondered about the question “How can we be notified for any new announcement(Major) in Azure App Service?” – please continue reading.

As you are aware, Azure App Service team is continuously enhancing the product based on user’s feedback/requirement/Issue but how to get the notification for the new changes or ongoing issues.

Below are the steps to proactively get notified about the latest announcements sent by Azure App Service Engineering team.

How to subscribe to App Service Announcement:

Step 1: click on below URL which is for both “web app” and “Azure functions”.

https://github.com/Azure/app-service-announcements

Step 2:  click on Watch icon. You may have to login. If you don’t have GitHub account please create one.

Step 3: Once you click on Watch, it will convert to Unwatch

That’s all, you are done.

Now you will start receiving communication for all the Major enhancement.

You can see the list of all announcement,

If you want to know about the Azure outage in any specific reason then you can check below URL,

Azure team keep updating their status on this page which helps users to understand if any issue is going on or not,

https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

I believe this helps. Please share your query/feedback.

Other useful references,

Issue: Azure function is throwing one of the following exceptions ·       Unable to retrieve Functions Keys ·       We are not able to retrieve the keys for function ·       The function runtime is unable to start. ·       Function host is not running. ·       Internal Server error. ·       Service Unavailable. Solution : https://azureappservices.blogspot.com/2019/07/azure-functions-unable-to-retrieve.html

Issue: Azure Functions: The Consumption pricing tier is not allowed in this resource group Solution : https://azureappservices.blogspot.com/2019/07/azure-functions-consumption-pricing.html

Issue: Disable Azure functions https://azureappservices.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-to-disable-functions-in-azure.html