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title: Configure and manage Azure Monitor based alert notifications for Azure Backup
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description: Learn how to configure Azure Monitor alert notifications.
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ms.topic: how-to
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ms.date: 11/26/2025
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ms.date: 04/08/2026
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ms.service: azure-backup
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author: AbhishekMallick-MS
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ms.author: v-mallicka
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## Suppress notifications during a planned maintenance window
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For certain scenarios, you might want to suppress notifications for a particular window of time when backups are going to fail. This is especially important for database backups, where log backups could happen as frequently as every 15 minutes, and you don't want to receive a separate notification every 15 minutes for each failure occurrence. In such a scenario, you can create a second alert processing rule that exists alongside the main alert processing rule used for sending notifications. The second alert processing rule won't be linked to an action group, but is used to specify the time for notification types that should be suppressed.
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For certain scenarios, you might want to suppress notifications for a particular window of time when backups are going to fail. This is especially important for database backups, where log backups could happen as frequently as every 15 minutes, and you don't want to receive a separate notification every 15 minutes for each failure occurrence. In such a scenario, you can create a second alert processing rule that exists alongside the main alert processing rule used for sending notifications. The second alert processing rule isn't linked to an action group, but is used to specify the time for notification types that should be suppressed.
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By default, the suppression alert processing rule takes priority over the other alert processing rule. If a single fired alert is affected by different alert processing rules of both types, the action groups of that alert will be suppressed.
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By default, the suppression alert processing rule takes priority over the other alert processing rule. If a single fired alert is affected by different alert processing rules of both types, the action groups of that alert are suppressed.
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Learn more [about suppression of notifications during planned maintenance
:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-blade.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the alert pane in the Azure portal." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-blade.png":::
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1.Select **Create**.
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1.On the **Alert processing rules** pane, select **+ Create**.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-create.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing creation of new alert processing rule.":::
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:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-create.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the creation of new alert processing rule." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-create.png":::
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1.Select **Scope**, for example, subscription or resource group, that the alert processing rule should span.
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1.On the **Create an alert processing rule** pane, on the **Scope** tab, click **+ Select scope**, for example, subscription or resource group, that the alert processing rule should span.
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You can also select more granular filters if you want to suppress notifications only for a particular backup item. For example, if you want to suppress notifications for *testdb1* database in the Virtual Machine *VM1*, you can specify filters "where Alert Context (payload) contains `/subscriptions/aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e/resourceGroups/testRG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/VM1/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/backupProtectedItem/SQLDataBase;MSSQLSERVER;testdb1`".
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You can also select more granular filters if you want to suppress notifications only for a particular backup item. For example, if you want to suppress notifications for *testdb1* database in the Virtual Machine *VM1*, you can specify filters "where Alert Context (payload) contains `/subscriptions/aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e/resourceGroups/testRG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/VM1/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/backupProtectedItem/SQLDataBase;MSSQLSERVER;testdb1`."
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To get the required format of your required backup item, see the *SourceId field* from the [Alert details page](backup-azure-monitoring-alerts.md#view-fired-alerts-in-the-azure-portal).
:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-scope.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the specified scope of the alert processing rule." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-scope.png":::
:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-details.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the alert processing rules details." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/alert-processing-rule-details.png":::
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1. Select **Review+Create**.
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1. Select **Review + create** and complete the creation of the suppression alert processing rule.
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If your suppression windows are one-off scenarios and not recurring, you can **Disable** the alert processing rule once you don't need it anymore. You can enable it again in future when you have a new maintenance window in the future.
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## Configure alerts and notifications on your metrics
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To configure alerts and notifications on your metrics, follow these steps:
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1.Click **New Alert Rule**at the top of the metric charts.
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1.Go to **Resiliency**and select **Monitoring + Reporting** > **Alerts**.
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1. Select the scope for which you want to create alerts. <br><br> The scope limits are the same as the limits described in the [View metrics](metrics-overview.md#view-metrics-in-the-azure-portal) section.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/create-alert-rule.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows how to create an alert rule." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/create-alert-rule.png":::
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1.Select the condition on which the alert should be fired.
- By default, some fields are pre-populated based on the selections in the metric chart. You can edit the parameters as needed.
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1. On the **Create an alert rule** pane, on the **Scope** tab, click **+ Select scope** to choose the scope for which you want to create alerts.
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The scope limits are the same as the limits described in the [View metrics](metrics-overview.md#view-metrics-in-the-azure-portal) section.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/grant-scope.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows how to select the scope for the alert rule." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/grant-scope.png":::
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1. On the **Condition** tab, for **Signal name**, select the condition from the dropdown menu on which the alert should be fired.
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- By default, some fields are prepopulated based on the selections in the metric chart. You can edit the parameters as needed.
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- Choose the threshold type and value to set the trigger condition for the alert. Learn more [about the alert conditions for alert rules](/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-create-metric-alert-rule).
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- To generate individual alerts for each datasource in the vault, use the **dimensions** selection in the metric alerts rule. Following are some scenarios:
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- Firing alerts on failed backup jobs for each datasource:
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**Alert Rule: Fire an alert if Backup Health Events > 0 in the last 24 hours for**:
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**Alert Rule: Fire an alert if Backup Health Events < 1 in the last 24 hours for**:
:::image type="content" source="./media/metrics-overview/metric-alert-condition-inline.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the option to select the condition on which the alert should be fired." lightbox="./media/metrics-overview/metric-alert-condition-expanded.png":::
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:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/assign-signal.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the alert condition signal assignment." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/assign-signal.png":::
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>[!NOTE]
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>If you select more dimensions as part of the alert rule condition, the cost increases (that's proportional to the number of unique combinations of dimension values possible). Selection of more dimensions allows you to get more context on a fired alert.
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1. On the **Actions** tab, for **Select actions**, choose the required action type.
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To configure notifications for the alerts using Action Groups, on the **Select action groups** pane, select an Action Group as part of the alert rule, or create a separate action rule.
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Azure Backup supports various notification channels, such as email, ITSM, webhook, Logic App, SMS. [Learn more about Action Groups](/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/action-groups).
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1. To configure notifications for these alerts using Action Groups, configure an Action Group as part of the alert rule, or create a separate action rule.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/assign-action-group.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows how to select an action group for the alert rule." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/assign-action-group.png":::
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We support various notification channels, such as email, ITSM, webhook, Logic App, SMS. [Learn more about Action Groups](/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/action-groups).
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1. On the **Details** tab, enter **Alert rule name**.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/metrics-overview/action-group-inline.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the process to configure notifications for these alerts using Action Groups." lightbox="./media/metrics-overview/action-group-expanded.png":::
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:::image type="content" source="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/name-alert-rule.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows how to enter the alert rule name." lightbox="./media/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts/name-alert-rule.png":::
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1.Configure auto-resolution behavior - You can configure metric alerts as _stateless_ or _stateful_ as required.
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1.On the **Tags** tab, provide the required tags.
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- To generate an alert on every job failure irrespective of the failure is due to the same underlying cause (stateless behavior), deselect the **Automatically resolve alerts** option in the alert rule.
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- Alternately, to configure the alerts as stateful, select the same checkbox. Therefore, when a metric alert is fired on the scope, another failure won't create a new metric alert. The alert gets auto-resolved if the alert generation condition evaluates to false for three successive evaluation cycles. New alerts are generated if the condition evaluates to true again.
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1. On the **Review + create** tab, select **Review + create** > **Create** and complete the metrics configuration.
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[Learn more about stateful and stateless behavior of Azure Monitor metric alerts](/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-troubleshoot-metric#the-metric-alert-is-not-triggered-every-time-the-condition-is-met).
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## Next steps
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Learn more about [Azure Backup monitoring and reporting](monitoring-and-alerts-overview.md).
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