Trigger notification and action (ansible play book or standalone python script) when VM goes down. Our requirement is need to trigger an alert and action once vm shut down. I tried vm-poweroff-alert but I am not getting any alerts (email configured) when I stopped the vm from azure portal. Please let me know how can I achive this.

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Trigger notification and action when VM goes down

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Marcin Policht 36,440 Reputation points MVP

2025-02-20T22:05:07.5266667+00:00

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Shanmugam, Prabakar 20 Reputation points

2025-02-21T00:04:05.7566667+00:00

This will not help us. Out requirement is to trigger an alert and action when vm has been stopped abruptly. But I do not see any such alerts on azure monitoring. Can you please share the details.

Shanmugam, Prabakar 20 Reputation points

2025-02-21T00:04:45.1733333+00:00

I tried this already but this will not help us. Out requirement is to trigger an alert and action when vm has been stopped abruptly. But I do not see any such alerts on azure monitoring. Can you please share the details.

Pranay Reddy Madireddy 2,095 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2025-02-21T05:06:57.9266667+00:00

Hi @Shanmugam, Prabakar

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform! Thank you for asking your question here.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/vm/monitor-virtual-machine-alerts#machine-availability
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/vm/tutorial-monitor-vm-alert-availability

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