Enable Autoscale Notifications

Sign in to Azure Management Portal.

Navigate to All resources blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseAll to access all your Microsoft Azure resources.

Choose the Azure subscription that you want to access from the Subscription filter box.

From the Type filter box, select Virtual machine scale set to list only the Azure virtual machine scale sets created in the selected subscription.

Click on the name of the virtual machine scale set that you want to examine.

In the navigation panel, under Settings, select Scaling to access the scaling settings available for the selected VM scale set.

On the Scaling configuration page, select the Notify tab, and check the autoscale notification configuration settings. If there are no settings available, instead the following message is displayed: "You can only notify when autoscale is enabled.", the selected virtual machine scale set is not using autoscaling. If the autoscale notification settings are displayed but there are no email administrator addresses or webhooks configured as recipients for alert notifications, autoscale notifications are not enabled for the selected Microsoft Azure virtual machine scale set.

Repeat steps no. 5 – 7 for each Azure virtual machine scale set available in the selected subscription.

Repeat steps no. 3 – 8 for each subscription created in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.

Run account list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to list the IDs of the subscriptions available in your Azure account:

az account list
	--query '[*].id'

The command output should return the requested subscription identifiers:

[
  "abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd",
  "abcd1234-abcd-1234-abcd-abcd1234abcd",
]

Run vmss list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to list the ID and the associated resource group of each virtual machine scale set provisioned in the selected Azure subscription:

az vmss list
	--subscription abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd
	--query '[*].{id:id, resourceGroup:resourceGroup}'

The command output should return the requested virtual machine scale set identifiers:

[
  {
    "id": "/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/cc-project5-scale-set",
    "resourceGroup": "cloud-shell-storage-westeurope"
  },
  {
    "id": "/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/cc-web-front-scale-set",
    "resourceGroup": "cloud-shell-storage-westeurope"
  }
]

Run monitor autoscale list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) to list the ID of each autoscale configuration and its associated virtual machine scale set, available in the selected Azure resource group:

az monitor autoscale list
	--resource-group cloud-shell-storage-westeurope
	--query '[*].{targetId:targetResourceUri, id:id}'

The command output should return the requested identifiers. id represents the ID of the autoscale configuration and targetId represents the ID of the VM scale set associated with the autoscale configuration:

[
  {
    "id": "/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/cc-project5-scale-set-Autoscale-30",
    "targetId": "/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/cc-project5-scale-set"
  },
  {
    "id": "/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/cc-web-front-scale-set-Autoscale-55",
    "targetId": "/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/cc-web-front-scale-set"
  }
]

Run monitor autoscale show command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the ID of the autoscale configuration associated with the VM scale set that you want to examine as identifier parameter, to describe the autoscale notification configuration available for the selected scale set:

az monitor autoscale show
	--ids /subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/cc-project5-scale-set-Autoscale-30
	--query '{enabled:enabled, notifications:notifications}'

The command output should return the autoscale notification configuration object:

{
  "enabled": false,
  "notifications": [
    {
      "email": {
       "customEmails": [],
       "sendToSubscriptionAdministrator": false,
       "sendToSubscriptionCoAdministrators": false
     },
     "webhooks": []
   }
  ]
}

If monitor autoscale show command output returns enabled is false or an empty array, i.e. [], the selected virtual machine scale set is not using autoscaling. If the command output returns enabled is true and a configuration object but there are no email administrator addresses or webhooks configured as recipients for alert notifications, as shown in the output example above, autoscale notifications are not enabled for the selected Microsoft Azure virtual machine scale set.

Repeat step no. 7 and 8 for each Azure virtual machine scale set deployed in the selected subscription.

Repeat steps no. 3 – 9 for each subscription created in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.

Sign in to Azure Management Portal.

Navigate to All resources blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseAll to access all your Microsoft Azure resources.

Choose the Azure subscription that you want to access from the Subscription filter box.

From the Type filter box, select Virtual machine scale set to list only the virtual machine scale sets deployed in the selected subscription.

Click on the name of the virtual machine scale set that you want to reconfigure.

In the navigation panel, under Settings, select Scaling to access the scaling settings available for the selected VM scale set.

On the Scaling configuration page, select the Notify tab, and perform the following operations:

1. If you want your Azure subscription administrators to be notified for autoscale actions via email, select Email administrators and Email co-administrators checkboxes, and/or add one or more email addresses, separated by semicolons, in the Additional administrator email(s) box.
2. If you want to use webhooks to route autoscale alert notifications to other systems or notification channels, provide your webhook URI in the Webhook configuration box. The webhook URI must be a valid HTTP or HTTPS endpoint.
3. Click Save to apply the configuration changes.

Repeat steps no. 5 – 7 to enable autoscale notifications for other Azure virtual machine scale set created within the selected subscription.

Repeat steps no. 3 – 8 for each subscription available in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.

(Optional) If this is the first time when you are configurating this autoscale. Run monitor autoscale update command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the ID of the autoscale configuration associated with the virtual machine scale set that you want to configure as identifier parameter, to initial notifications for the selected VM scale set:

az monitor autoscale update
	--ids /subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/cc-project5-scale-set-Autoscale-30
	--add notifications '{"email": {"customEmails":[]},"webhooks":[]}'
	--query 'notifications'

The command output should return the autoscale notification configuration metadata:

[
  {
    "email": {
      "customEmails": [],
      "sendToSubscriptionAdministrator": false,
      "sendToSubscriptionCoAdministrators": false
    },
    "webhooks": []
  }
]

Run monitor autoscale update command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the ID of the autoscale configuration associated with the virtual machine scale set that you want to reconfigure as identifier parameter, to enable autoscale email notifications for the selected VM scale set. In the following command request example, the Azure subscription administrators and the person managing "admin@example.com" email address will be notified for autoscale actions via email:

az monitor autoscale update
	--ids /subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/cc-project5-scale-set-Autoscale-30
	--email-administrator true
	--email-coadministrators true
	--add-action email admin@example.com
	--query 'notifications'

The command output should return the autoscale notification configuration metadata:

[
  {
    "email": {
      "customEmails": [
        "admin@example.com"
      ],
      "sendToSubscriptionAdministrator": true,
      "sendToSubscriptionCoAdministrators": true
    },
    "webhooks": []
  }
]

Run monitor autoscale update command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the ID of the autoscale configuration associated with the virtual machine scale set that you want to reconfigure as identifier parameter, to enable autoscale alert notifications via webhooks for the selected VM scale set. The webhook used can authenticate with token-based authentication, where you save the webhook URI with a token ID as a query parameter. In the following command example, the webhook URI used is "https://webhook.example.com?token=abcd1234". The webhook URI must be a valid HTTP or HTTPS endpoint:

az monitor autoscale update
	--ids /subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcdabcdabcd/resourceGroups/cloud-shell-storage-westeurope/providers/microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/cc-project5-scale-set-Autoscale-30
	--add-action webhook "https://webhook.example.com?token=abcd1234"
	--query 'notifications'

The command output should return the autoscale notification configuration metadata:

[
  {
    "email": {
      "customEmails": [],
      "sendToSubscriptionAdministrator": false,
      "sendToSubscriptionCoAdministrators": false
    },
    "webhooks": [
      {
        "properties": {},
        "serviceUri": "https://webhook.example.com?token=abcd1234"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Repeat steps no. 3 – 6 to enable autoscale notifications for other Azure virtual machine scale set deployed in the selected subscription.

Repeat steps no. 3 – 7 for each subscription created in your Microsoft Azure cloud account.