Pro Tip: Track Microsoft Azure Services Status via RSS Feeds

If you have already made the move to Microsoft's Azure cloud and need to keep an eye on the status of different services from within Azure that your company uses there are a couple of options available to you.

First is the main Microsoft Azure Status Portal located at

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

You can set this page to refresh the current status of Azure services across all of their regions in increments of 2, 5, 10 and 30 minutes. The chart displays the various services organized by their broader category with each region represented.

As you can see in the legend at the top of this image, the portal reports one of four statuses for each service/region - Good, Warning, Error and Information.

The Microsoft Azure Status Portal is broken down into these categories and services:

COMPUTE

NETWORKING

STORAGE

WEB and MOBILE

DATABASES

INTELLIGENCE and ANALYTICS

INTERNET OF THINGS

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION

SECURITY and IDENTITY

DEVELOPER TOOLS

MONITORING and MANAGEMENT

You may have noticed an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) icon next to each of the individual services listing. You can subscribe to these feeds using your favorite RSS reader and you will see the latest updates on that service if it has any issues.

Note: These feeds will normally appear empty when the Azure service is healthy so you should only expect them to update when there are reported issues. After an outage or incident they will once again be empty until the next issue crops up.

If you want to take a look at past issues with any of the Azure services just visit the Azure Status Portal History page.

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