When maintaining an Azure Infrastructure landscape, such as a Landing Zone, one of the most significant challenges is monitoring it effectively. How can you ensure proactive alerts for potential issues? Where should you place these alerts, and what thresholds should you set? How do you cover everything important while avoiding alert fatigue?

Recently, Microsoft and the community introduced an open-source framework designed to address these questions and provide guidance on deploying alerts in a Landing Zone scenario. This framework is known as Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA). It offers a set of alerts with best practice configurations, utilizing Azure Policies for deployment.

In this session, I will delve into what AMBA is and how you can leverage it. We will explore the strength of deploying alerts via Policies and discuss potential pitfalls and downsides of using the AMBA framework.