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Disable Alerts after 7 days?

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Description

I have a question related to behaviour as seen below.

We deploy about 300 alerts for our customers which are mostly based upon log searches.

I gave read that when an alert rule is failing for 7 days it gets disabled automatically.

As I understood the documentation this also happens when the syntax of the query is ok but if the table/column does not yet exist in log analytics.

Since we bootstrap our environments with all these alerts it could obviously be that a customer will not deploy all the resources that have an alert within a 7 day period. It could take months for somebody to actually deploy an AKS cluster for example.

Is the "7 day disable automation by MS" applicable to:

  • v1 and v2 alert rules

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Did I understand the mechanism correctly?

"alert 123 is disabled by the System due to : Alert has been failing consistently with the same exception for the past week"

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Start with the issue's questions about Azure Monitor alert rules, the seven-day failure disablement, and differences between v1 and v2 rules. Check the relevant Azure Monitor documentation and record whether the behavior applies, how missing tables or columns are treated, and whether it can be prevented; done means each question has a clear documented answer.

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Assessment

Tech stack
azure
Domain
cloud, observability
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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