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How to Subscribe to Azure Functions outage?

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without managing any infrastructure. Although Azure Functions is designed to be highly available and scalable, there might be rare occasions when an outage occurs.

In this blog, we'll discuss how you can subscribe to Azure Functions outage notifications to stay informed about any service disruptions.

Azure Functions Outage Notifications

Azure Functions provides several channels for receiving outage notifications, including:

Azure Service Health: Azure Service Health provides a personalized dashboard to monitor the health of your Azure services. You can configure Service Health to send you email or SMS notifications when there are service issues affecting your Azure Functions.

Azure Status: Azure Status provides a global view of the health of all Azure services. You can view current and historical service issues on the Azure Status page, and subscribe to RSS or Atom feeds to receive updates. https://status.azure.com

Azure Functions Twitter: The Azure Functions team regularly updates their Twitter feed with service status updates and notifications of any outages.

Azure Functions GitHub: The Azure Functions GitHub repository provides updates on service issues and bug fixes. refer Subscribe to Azure Announcements

How to Subscribe to Azure Functions Outage Notifications

To subscribe to Azure Functions outage notifications, follow these steps:

Sign in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com).
Navigate to the Azure Service Health dashboard by clicking on the Service Health icon in the left-hand navigation menu.
Click on the "Add Alert" button in the top navigation bar.
Choose "Azure Functions" from the "Resource Type" dropdown list.
Choose the Azure Functions resource for which you want to receive outage notifications.
Configure the notification settings, including the notification type (email or SMS) and the recipient email or phone number.
Click "Create Alert Rule" to save the notification settings.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to Azure Status updates by navigating to the Azure Status page (https://status.azure.com) and clicking on the "Subscribe to Updates" button. You can then choose to subscribe to email, RSS, or Atom feeds for Azure Functions.

Conclusion

Subscribing to Azure Functions outage notifications is an important step in ensuring that you stay informed about any service disruptions that might affect your applications. By configuring notifications in Azure Service Health, Azure Status, or following Azure Functions on Twitter or GitHub, you can quickly and easily receive updates on any outages or service issues affecting your Azure Functions.

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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