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Azure diagnostics: trace failures through health and logs
Check evidence and resource health first, then follow the service-specific Azure guide.
Skills
Identify the affected Azure service and symptom, and start with logs, metrics, and timelines supplied by the user. If live access is prohibited, do not call cloud query or mutation tools. When live triage is permitted, use AppLens when available and check Azure Resource Health before activity logs, App Insights/KQL, or service logs. Select the reference for Container Apps, App Service, Functions, AKS, VMs, or messaging. Tie diagnoses to evidence and record attempted steps. A remediation may restart an app or alter networking or resource configuration; explain its effect and obtain authorization before changing anything. Read-only troubleshooting access is not permission to modify resources.
Permissions
Prerequisites
- For Azure production issues across service logs/metrics, AKS, VMs, Service Bus, or Event Hubs.
- If the user supplies evidence only or prohibits live access, analyze that evidence without querying or changing Azure.
Permissions
- May query resource health, activity logs, metrics, and app logs, then propose remediation.
- The skill starts from supplied evidence, checks resource health, selects service guides, and records attempts; live remediation requires authorization.
Limitations
Identify service and symptom, check resource health and supplied evidence first; AKS, VM connectivity, and messaging have focused guides.
Pinned upstream source
- Repository
- microsoft/skills
- File path
- .github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-diagnostics/SKILL.md
- Pinned commit
fc164ba1d7a0c10377dbcc1c9ac07253b9329fdb- Source checked
- 2026-10-14 · Reviewed against the pinned upstream source
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License: MIT
Compatible tools
Azure CLI · Azure Monitor / App Insights · Azure MCP AppLens · bundled diagnostic scripts
Main topic
Take a coding Agent change from context to verification