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Author: AbbyMSFT

articles/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-create-activity-log-alert-rule.md

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
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-title: Create or edit an activity log, service health, or resource health alert rule
-description: This article shows you how to create a new activity log, service health, and resource health alert rule.
+title: Create an activity log, service health, or resource health alert rule
+description: This article shows you how to create or edit a new activity log, service health, and resource health alert rule.
 author: AbbyMSFT
 ms.author: abbyweisberg
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.date: 11/27/2023
 ms.reviewer: harelbr
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+# Customer intent: As an cloud Azure administrator, I want to create a new log search alert rule so that I can use a log search query to monitor the performance and availability of my resources.
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 # Create or edit an activity log, service health, or resource health alert rule
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ Alerts triggered by these alert rules contain a payload that uses the [common al
 
 ## Configure the alert rule conditions
 
-1. On the **Condition** tab, when you select the **Signal name** field, the most commonly used signals are displayed in the drop-down list. Select one of these popular signals, or select **See all signals** if you want to choose a different signal for the condition.
+1. On the **Condition** tab, select **Activity log**, **Resource health**, or **Service health**, or select **See all signals** if you want to choose a different signal for the condition.
 
     :::image type="content" source="media/alerts-create-new-alert-rule/alerts-popular-signals.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows popular signals when creating an alert rule.":::
 

articles/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-create-metric-alert-rule.md

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
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 title: Create Azure Monitor metric alert rules
-description: This article shows you how to create a new metric alert rule.
+description: This article shows you how to create or edit an Azure Monitor metric alert rule.
 author: AbbyMSFT
 ms.author: abbyweisberg
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.date: 03/07/2024
 ms.reviewer: harelbr
+
+# Customer intent: As an cloud Azure administrator, I want to create a new metric alert rule so that I can monitor the performance and availability of my resources.
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 # Create or edit a metric alert rule
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ To create a metric alert rule, you must have the following permissions:
     |Field |Description |
     |---------|---------|
     |Threshold|Select if the threshold should be evaluated based on a static value or a dynamic value.<br>A **static threshold** evaluates the rule by using the threshold value that you configure.<br>**Dynamic thresholds** use machine learning algorithms to continuously learn the metric behavior patterns and calculate the appropriate thresholds for unexpected behavior. You can learn more about using [dynamic thresholds for metric alerts](alerts-types.md#apply-advanced-machine-learning-with-dynamic-thresholds). |
-    |Operator|Select the operator for comparing the metric value against the threshold. <br>If you're using static thresholds, select one of these operators: <br> - Greater than <br> - Greater than or equal to <br> - Less than <br> - Less than or equal to<br>If you're using dynamic thresholds, alert rules can use tailored thresholds based on metric behavior for both upper and lower bounds in the same alert rule. Select one of these operators: <br> - Greater than the upper threshold or lower than the lower threshold (default) <br> - Greater than the upper threshold <br> - Lesser than the lower threshold|
+    |Operator|Select the operator for comparing the metric value against the threshold. <br>If you're using static thresholds, select one of these operators: <br> - Greater than <br> - Greater than or equal to <br> - Less than <br> - Less than or equal to<br>If you're using dynamic thresholds, alert rules can use tailored thresholds based on metric behavior for both upper and lower bounds in the same alert rule. Select one of these operators: <br> - Greater than the upper threshold or lower than the lower threshold (default) <br> - Greater than the upper threshold <br> - Less than the lower threshold|
     |Aggregation type|Select the aggregation function to apply on the data points: Sum, Count, Average, Min, or Max.|
     |Threshold value|If you selected a **static** threshold, enter the threshold value for the condition logic.|
     |Unit|If the selected metric signal supports different units, such as bytes, KB, MB, and GB, and if you selected a **static** threshold, enter the unit for the condition logic.|
@@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ To create a metric alert rule, you must have the following permissions:
     |Field  |Description  |
     |---------|---------|
     |Dimension name|Dimensions can be either number or string columns. Dimensions are used to monitor specific time series and provide context to a fired alert.<br>Splitting on the **Azure Resource ID** column makes the specified resource into the alert target. If detected, the **ResourceID** column is selected automatically and changes the context of the fired alert to the record's resource.|
-    |Operator|The operator used on the dimension name and value. Select from these values:<br> - Equals <br> - Is not equal to <br> - Starts with. |
+    |Operator|The operator used on the dimension name and value. Select from these values:<br> - Equals <br> - Is not equal to <br> - Starts with|
     |Dimension values|The dimension values are based on data from the last 48 hours. Select **Add custom value** to add custom dimension values.|
     |Include all future values| Select this field to include any future values added to the selected dimension.|