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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Starter prompts for Azure SRE Agent (preview) |
| 3 | +description: Review different prompts you can use with Azure SRE Agent (preview) |
| 4 | +author: craigshoemaker |
| 5 | +ms.topic: conceptual |
| 6 | +ms.date: 07/24/2025 |
| 7 | +ms.author: cshoe |
| 8 | +ms.service: azure |
| 9 | +--- |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +# Starter prompts for Azure SRE Agent (preview) |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +Azure SRE Agent helps you manage and troubleshoot your Azure resources through natural language conversations. This article provides a collection of starter prompts to help you get the most out of Azure SRE Agent. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## Explore agent capabilities |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +- How do I get started with SRE Agent? |
| 18 | +- What can you help me with as an SRE Agent? |
| 19 | +- What are some common use cases you support? |
| 20 | +- What are your key capabilities? |
| 21 | +- Can you explain how you help with incident management? |
| 22 | +- How do I connect to an Incident Platform? |
| 23 | +- How does SRE Agent's billing work? |
| 24 | +- Which Azure services do you support? |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +## App Services |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +### Resource discovery |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +- List all my web apps. |
| 31 | +- What services or resources is my web app connected to? |
| 32 | +- Which resource group is my app part of? |
| 33 | +- Which apps are hosted on Linux vs Windows in my environment? |
| 34 | +- Are any of my web apps still running on deprecated or unsupported runtime versions? |
| 35 | +- Show me visualization of memory usage % for my web app for last week. |
| 36 | +- Can you list all environment variables or app settings for this app? |
| 37 | +- What App Service Plan is this app running on, and who else shares it? |
| 38 | +- Are there any staging slots configured for this web app? |
| 39 | +- Which apps are using custom domains? |
| 40 | +- Do any apps in my subscription have ARR affinity enabled? |
| 41 | +- Which apps have health checks enabled, and what are their probe paths? |
| 42 | +- Can you list the auto scale rules configured across all of my App Services? |
| 43 | +- Which apps have diagnostic logging turned on? |
| 44 | +- Show me all web apps using .NET 6 runtime. |
| 45 | +- What changed in my web app last week? |
| 46 | +- What are some best practices I can apply to my web app? |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +### Diagnostics \& troubleshooting |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +- Can you analyze my app's availability over the last 24 hours? |
| 51 | +- Give me slow endpoints for my APIs. |
| 52 | +- Why is my web app timed out? |
| 53 | +- Why is my web app throwing 500 errors? |
| 54 | +- My web app is down. Can you analyze it? |
| 55 | +- My web is stuck and isn't loading – investigate for me. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +## Container Apps |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +### Resource discovery |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +- List all my container apps. |
| 62 | +- What is the ingress configuration for my container app? |
| 63 | +- Which revision of my container app is currently active? |
| 64 | +- What changed in my container app in the last week? |
| 65 | +- Show me visualization of memory utilization % for my container app for last week. |
| 66 | +- Show me visualization of CPU utilization % for my container app for last week. |
| 67 | +- What container images are used in each of my container apps? |
| 68 | +- Which apps have Dapr enabled? |
| 69 | +- What secrets or environment variables are defined for my app? |
| 70 | +- Can you list the CPU and memory allocation for each container app? |
| 71 | +- Which apps are connected to other services via Dapr pub/sub? |
| 72 | +- Are any of my apps configured to run on a virtual network? |
| 73 | +- Which of my container apps has auto scaling enabled? |
| 74 | +- Show me all apps with public ingress enabled. |
| 75 | +- Which of my container apps use managed identities? |
| 76 | +- Which apps use multiple revisions at once? |
| 77 | +- What are some best practices I can apply to my container app? |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +### Diagnostics \& troubleshooting |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +- My container app is stuck in an activation failed state. Investigate for me. |
| 82 | +- Why is my container app timed out? |
| 83 | +- Why is my web app throwing 500 errors? |
| 84 | +- My container app is down. Can you analyze it? |
| 85 | +- My web is stuck and isn't loading – investigate for me. |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +## Azure Kubernetes Service |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +### Resource discovery |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +- Which node pools are configured for my AKS cluster? |
| 92 | +- Which workloads are in a crash loop or failed state? |
| 93 | +- Do I have any pending or unscheduled pods? |
| 94 | +- Can you change settings on the cluster? |
| 95 | +- Scale out deployment inside my AKS cluster |
| 96 | +- What version of Kubernetes is my cluster running? |
| 97 | +- How many pods are currently running in my cluster? |
| 98 | +- What are the configured auto scale rules for my deployments? |
| 99 | +- What resource limits and requests are configured for my app containers? |
| 100 | +- Can you list all services exposed via LoadBalancer in my cluster? |
| 101 | +- Which deployments use persistent volumes? |
| 102 | +- Are there any cluster-wide policies enforced like PodSecurity or NetworkPolicies? |
| 103 | +- Can you give me all the runtime languages of my AKS clusters? |
| 104 | +- Can you give me environment variables for my AKS clusters? |
| 105 | +- Show me visualization of requests and 500 errors (area chart) for my app in AKS cluster for the past week. Include all data points. |
| 106 | +- What are some best practices I can apply to my AKS cluster? |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | +### Diagnostics \& troubleshooting |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | +- Is there an OOM in my deployment? |
| 111 | +- Analyze requests and limits in my namespace? |
| 112 | +- Why is my deployment down? |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +## Azure API Management |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +### Resource discovery |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | +- Can you show me my API Management instances? |
| 119 | +- I need details about my specific API Management instance |
| 120 | +- What backends does my API Management instance have? |
| 121 | +- Does my API Management instance have any unhealthy backend apps? |
| 122 | +- What API policies does my API Management instance have? |
| 123 | +- What Operation policies does my {api-name} API have? |
| 124 | +- What NSG rules does my API Management instance have? |
| 125 | + |
| 126 | +### Diagnostics \& troubleshooting |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | +- Why am I getting 500 errors in my API Management? |
| 129 | +- Can you help me figure out why requests to our API are failing? |
| 130 | +- Show me recent changes to our API Management instance |
| 131 | +- Why is my API Management slow? |
| 132 | +- Can you help me scale my API Management instance? |
| 133 | +- Can you show me the recent failure logs for my API Management? |
| 134 | +- What's the failure rate for my API operations in my API Management? |
| 135 | +- Is there anything wrong with my API Managements VNet configuration? |
| 136 | +- Can you help me inspect the global policy for my API Management? |
| 137 | +- Is my `<NAME>` API in my API Management causing any errors? |
| 138 | +- Can you help me change/delete my <NSG_NAME> NSG rule on my API Management instance? |
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