Alerts tile

The Alerts tile allows you to view alerts on your dashboards and perspectives.

You can add alerts tiles to any dashboard or perspective. Alerts are enabled by default for workspaces and dashboards.

For more information about Azure Alerts see Overview of alerts in Microsoft Azure.

How to configure an Alerts tile

  1. Add a new tile to a dashboard and choose the Alerts tile.
  2. Select the visualization for your Alerts tile and click next.
    Note: You can choose between the List and the Donut visualization for either Resources, Groups, or Subscriptions.
  3. Scope:
    The scope section allows you to define the objects for which alerts are shown.

  4. Timeframe:

    The timeframe section allows you to determine the timeframe for the data. You can choose either to use:

    Use page timeframe

    Specific timeframe

    Custom timeframe

    The Alerts tile timeframe shows a maximum time period of last 30 days. This is because Azure only stores 30 days worth of Alerts data.


  5. Filters:

    The filter section allows you to control which alerts are shown by the tile.

    For more information about Azure Alerts see Overview of alerts in Microsoft Azure.

  6. Settings for different visualizations:
  7. Click done to save the tile.
    The tile now shows alerts according to your settings.

Known Issues

Blank drilldown page after clicking on an alert in SquaredUp DS

If you have upgraded from v4.4 to v4.5 you will not have the pre-populated Alert drilldown perspectives. You can populate the drilldown page by creating two new perspectives as described below.

  1. Drilldown by clicking on an alert in an Alert list.
  2. Click the small gray plus button to add a new perspective.
  3. Click on the Edit JSON button

  4. Copy the JSON below and paste it into the JSON box, overwriting everything already there. 
    {  
	"content": {
    	"_type": "layout/list",
	    "contents": [
			{
    			"_type": "layout/column",
	    		"columns": [
		    		{
			    		"contents": [
				    		{
					    		"_type": "layout/list",
						    	"contents": [
							    	{
								    	"_type": "tile/azure-structure",
    									"config": {},
	    								"description": "",
		    							"title": "Structure"
			    					}
				    			]
					    	}
			    		],
				    	"width": 47.914
			    	},
				    {
						"contents": [
    						{
	    						"_type": "layout/list",
		    					"contents": [
			    					{
				    					"_type": "tile/azure-monitoralert-properties",
					    				"config": {},
						    			"description": "",
							    		"title": "Monitor"
								    }
								]
    						}
	    				],
		    			"width": 52.085
			    	}
				]
    		},
	    	{
		    	"_type": "tile/text",
				"config": {
    				"display": {
	    				"contentTemplate": "<pre class='u-text-normal'>{{properties.essentials.description}}</pre>"
		    		}
			    },
				"description": "",
    			"title": "Description"
	    	},
		    {
				"_type": "tile/azure-monitoralert-history",
    			"config": {
	    			"display": {
		    			"autohide": true,
			    		"columnOverrides": {},
				    	"columns": [
					    	"comments",
							"description",
    						"modificationEvent",
	    					"oldValue",
		    				"newValue",
			    			"modifiedAt",
				    		"modifiedBy"
					    ],
						"customColumns": {},
    					"rowLink": "",
	    				"showHeaders": true
		    		}
			    },
				"description": "",
    			"title": "History"
	    	},
		    {
				"_type": "tile/azure-monitoralert-smart-group",
    			"config": {
	    			"display": {
		    			"columns": [
			    			"severity",
				    		"name",
					    	"targetResourceGroup",
							"targetResourceName",
    						"targetResourceType",
	    					"startDateTime",
		    				"alertState"
			    		]
				    },
					"source": {
    					"alertStates": [],
	    				"limit": 250,
		    			"monitorConditions": [],
			    		"monitorServices": [],
				    	"severities": [],
					    "timeframe": {
						    "range": "last30days",
							"type": "fixed"
    					}
	    			}
		    	},
			    "description": "",
				"title": "Smart Group"
    		}
	    ]
	}, 
	"id": "43e1362a-8cef-4bce-8ac9-f7de0f46242c",
	"match": {
		"type": "azure/alert"
	},
	"name": "Alert",
	"rank": -1000,
	"derivedFrom": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
	"createdFromReference": {
		"packId": "ddb53c1e-ffe4-40ad-bdc2-22b0bcad5e30",
		"itemId": "b09678cb-6312-402b-8acd-f956d30ea2ac",
		"packversion": "1.0"
	}
}
  5. Click the apply changes button below the Perspective JSON box.
  6. Publish the perspective.
  7. Click the small gray plus button to add another new perspective.
  8. Copy the JSON below and paste it into the JSON box, overwriting everything already there. 
    {
	"content": {
		"_type": "layout/list",
		"contents": [
			{
				"_type": "layout/column",
				"columns": [
					{
						"contents": [
							{
								"_type": "layout/list",
								"contents": [
									{
										"_type": "tile/object-properties",
										"config": {
											"display": {
												"path": "properties.context"
											}
										},
										"description": "",
										"title": ""
									}
								]
							}
						],
						"width": 100
					}
				]
			}
		]
	},
	"id": "3248ba18-bc23-4d91-99b0-3574eaf1ce20",
	"match": {
		"type": "azure/alert"
	},
	"name": "Context",
	"rank": -2000,
	"derivedFrom": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
	"createdFromReference": {
		"packId": "ddb53c1e-ffe4-40ad-bdc2-22b0bcad5e30",
		"itemId": "74bf5348-261d-41e8-8cb3-08e97bdba809",
		"packversion": "1.0"
	}
}
  9. Go back to your Alerts list tile, and click on another alert to check that the Alert and Context perspectives are shown.

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