Merge pull request #110035 from danimir/master

Creating alerts for Managed Instance - new howto

Author: Jak-MS

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+title: Setup alerts and notifications for Managed Instance (Azure portal)
+description: Use the Azure portal to create SQL Managed Instance alerts, which can trigger notifications or automation when the conditions you specify are met.
+services: sql-database
+ms.service: sql-database
+ms.subservice: performance
+ms.custom: 
+ms.devlang: 
+ms.topic: conceptual
+author: danimir
+ms.author: danil
+ms.reviewer: jrasnik, carlrab
+ms.date: 04/02/2020
+---
+# Create alerts for Azure SQL Managed Instance using the Azure portal
+
+## Overview
+
+This article shows you how to set up alerts for databases in Azure SQL Managed Instance Database using the Azure portal. Alerts can send you an email or call a web hook when some metric (for example instance storage size or CPU usage) reaches the threshold. This article also provides best practices for setting alert periods.
+
+You can receive an alert based on monitoring metrics for, or events on, your Azure services.
+
+* **Metric values** - The alert triggers when the value of a specified metric crosses a threshold you assign in either direction. That is, it triggers both when the condition is first met and then afterwards when that condition is no longer being met.
+* **Activity log events** - An alert can trigger on *every* event, or, only when a certain number of events occur.
+
+You can configure an alert to do the following when it triggers:
+
+* Send email notifications to the service administrator and co-administrators
+* Send email to additional emails that you specify.
+* Call a webhook
+
+You can configure and get information about alert rules using
+
+* [Azure portal](../monitoring-and-diagnostics/insights-alerts-portal.md)
+* [PowerShell](../azure-monitor/platform/alerts-classic-portal.md)
+* [command-line interface (CLI)](../azure-monitor/platform/alerts-classic-portal.md)
+* [Azure Monitor REST API](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dn931945.aspx)
+
+## Create an alert rule on a metric with the Azure portal
+
+1. In the [portal](https://portal.azure.com/), locate the resource you are interested in monitoring and select it.
+2. Select **Alerts** in the Monitoring section. The text and icon may vary slightly for different resources.  
+
+   ![Monitoring](media/sql-database-insights-alerts-portal/Alerts.png)
+  
+3. Select the **New alert rule** button to open the **Create rule** page.
+   ![Create rule](media/sql-database-insights-alerts-portal/create-rule.png)
+
+4. In the **Condition** section, click **Add**.
+   ![Define condition](media/sql-database-insights-alerts-portal/create-rule.png)
+5. In the **Configure signal logic** page, select a signal.
+   ![Select signal](media/sql-database-insights-alerts-portal/select-signal.png)
+6. After selecting a signal, such as **CPU percentage**, the **Configure signal logic** page appears.
+   ![Configure signal logic](media/sql-database-insights-alerts-portal/configure-signal-logic.png)
+7. On this page, configure that threshold type, operator, aggregation type, threshold value, aggregation granularity, and frequency of evaluation. Then click **Done**.
+8. On the **Create rule**, select an existing **Action group** or create a new group. An action group enables you to define the action to be taken when an alert condition occurs.
+  ![Define action group](media/sql-database-insights-alerts-portal/action-group.png)
+
+9. Define a name for the rule, provide an optional description, choose a severity level for the rule, choose whether to enable the rule upon rule creation, and then click **Create rule alert** to create the metric rule alert.
+
+Within 10 minutes, the alert is active and triggers as previously described.
+
+## Next steps
+
+* Learn more about [configuring webhooks in alerts](../azure-monitor/platform/alerts-webhooks.md).

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