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title: Tutorial - Investigate the health of your resources
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description: 'Tutorial: Learn how to investigate the health of your resources using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.'
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ms.topic: tutorial
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ms.date: 01/24/2023
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ms.date: 02/21/2024
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# Tutorial: Investigate the health of your resources
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The resource health page provides a snapshot view of the overall health of a single resource. You can review detailed information about the resource and all recommendations that apply to that resource. Also, if you're using any of the [advanced protection plans of Microsoft Defender for Cloud](defender-for-cloud-introduction.md), you can see outstanding security alerts for that specific resource too.
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This single page, currently in preview, in Defender for Cloud's portal pages shows:
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This single page, in Defender for Cloud's portal pages shows:
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1.**Resource information** - The resource group and subscription it's attached to, the geographic location, and more.
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1.**Applied security feature** - Whether a Microsoft Defender plan is enabled for the resource.
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To step through the features covered in this tutorial:
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- You need an Azure subscription. If you don’t have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
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- To apply security recommendations, you must be signed in with an account that has the relevant permissions (Resource Group Contributor, Resource Group Owner, Subscription Contributor, or Subscription Owner)
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- To dismiss alerts, you must be signed in with an account that has the relevant permissions (Security Admin, Subscription Contributor, or Subscription Owner)
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-[Microsoft Defender for Cloud enabled on your subscription](connect-azure-subscription.md).
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-**To apply security recommendations**: you must be signed in with an account that has the relevant permissions (Resource Group Contributor, Resource Group Owner, Subscription Contributor, or Subscription Owner)
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-**To dismiss alerts**: you must be signed in with an account that has the relevant permissions (Security Admin, Subscription Contributor, or Subscription Owner)
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## Access the health information for a resource
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> [!TIP]
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> In the following screenshots, we're opening a virtual machine, but the resource health page can show you the details for all resource types.
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To open the resource health page for a resource:
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**To open the resource health page for a resource**:
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1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com).
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1. Search for and select **Microsoft Defender for Cloud**.
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1. Select **Inventory**.
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1. Select any resource from the [asset inventory page](asset-inventory.md).
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1. Select any resource.
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:::image type="content" source="media/investigate-resource-health/inventory-select-resource.png" alt-text="Select a resource from the asset inventory to view the resource health page." lightbox="./media/investigate-resource-health/inventory-select-resource.png":::
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1.Use the left pane of the resource health page for an overview of the subscription, status, and monitoring information about the resource. You can also see whether enhanced security features are enabled for the resource:
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1.Review the left pane of the resource health page for an overview of the subscription, status, and monitoring information about the resource. You can also see whether enhanced security features are enabled for the resource:
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:::image type="content" source="media/investigate-resource-health/resource-health-left-pane.png" alt-text="The left pane of Microsoft Defender for Cloud's resource health page shows the subscription, status, and monitoring information about the resource. It also includes the total number of outstanding security recommendations and security alerts.":::
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The resource health page lists the recommendations for which your resource is "unhealthy" and the alerts that are active.
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- To ensure your resource is hardened according to the policies applied to your subscriptions, fix the issues described in the recommendations:
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1. From the right pane, select a recommendation.
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1. Continue as instructed on screen.
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### Harden a resource
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To ensure your resource is hardened according to the policies applied to your subscriptions, fix the issues described in the recommendations:
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1. From the right pane, select a recommendation.
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1. Continue as instructed on screen.
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> [!TIP]
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> The instructions for fixing issues raised by security recommendations differ for each of Defender for Cloud's recommendations.
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> To decide which recommendations to resolve first, look at the severity of each one and its [potential impact on your secure score](secure-score-security-controls.md).
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### Investigate a security alert
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> The instructions for fixing issues raised by security recommendations differ for each of Defender for Cloud's recommendations.
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> To decide which recommendations to resolve first, look at the severity of each one and its [potential impact on your secure score](secure-score-security-controls.md).
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1. From the right pane, select an alert.
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- To investigate a security alert:
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1. From the right pane, select an alert.
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1. Follow the instructions in [Respond to security alerts](managing-and-responding-alerts.md#respond-to-a-security-alert).
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1. Follow the instructions in [Respond to security alerts](managing-and-responding-alerts.md#respond-to-a-security-alert).
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