Official agent skill

Azure Service Health

by MicrosoftDocs in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns.

OfficialCC-BY-4.0Auto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Azure Service Health

skills CLI
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-service-health -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-service-health --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/azure-service-health .claude/skills/azure-service-health && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
azure-service-health
GitHub stars
776
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
489 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
147
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC-BY-4.0

At a glance

Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns.

  • Handling Service Health APIs
  • SKILL.md covers How to Use This Skill and Category Index
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Resource Graph queries

What it does

Azure Service Health is an agent skill from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when handling Service Health APIs, Resource Graph queries, webhooks, VM Resource Health, or retirement alerts, and other Azure Service Health related development tasks. Not for Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Reliability (use azure-reliability), Azure Resiliency (use azure-resiliency).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Requires network access. Uses mcpmicrosoftdocs:microsoftdocsfetch or fetchwebpage to retrieve documentation.

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Webhooks. It works with Microsoft Azure and Azure Monitor. The repository describes itself as: Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs. The licence is CC-BY-4.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Handling Service Health APIs
  • Resource Graph queries
  • VM Resource Health
  • Retirement alerts

Example prompts

  • “/azure-service-health”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ba74e8f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • learn.microsoft.com
    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Azure Service Health loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 124 tokens; SKILL.md has 489 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~124
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills at commit ba74e8f, republished under its CC-BY-4.0 licence (© MicrosoftDocs). 489 words, ~1,684 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/azure-service-health/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
azure-service-health
description
Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when handling Service Health APIs, Resource Graph queries, webhooks, VM Resource Health, or retirement alerts, and other Azure Service Health related development tasks. Not for Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Reliability (use azure-reliability), Azure Resiliency (use azure-resiliency).
compatibility
Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.
metadata.generated_at
2026-10-04
metadata.generator
docs2skills/1.0.0

Azure Service Health Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Service Health. Covers troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

CategoryLinesDescription
TroubleshootingL34-L38Understanding VM Resource Health annotations, diagnosing VM health issues, and troubleshooting platform or user-caused VM availability and performance problems
Decision MakingL39-L44Guidance on selecting and interpreting Azure retirement alerts, and mapping retirement notices to specific resources to assess impact and plan mitigation.
Limits & QuotasL45-L49Details on how long Azure Service Health notifications are kept, their lifecycle stages, and retention behavior for different event types and channels
SecurityL50-L58Managing who can see Azure Service Health and security advisories using tenant/subscription roles and RBAC, including configuring access scopes and viewing security-related notifications.
ConfigurationL59-L66Configuring Service Health and Resource Health alerts via ARM/Bicep/PowerShell and querying Service Health data/fields with Azure Resource Graph.
Integrations & Coding PatternsL67-L77Using APIs, Resource Graph, webhooks, and connectors (OpsGenie, PagerDuty, ServiceNow) to programmatically access, query, and route Azure Service Health and Security advisories
Troubleshooting
TopicURL
Interpret and troubleshoot VM Resource Health annotationshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/resource-health-vm-annotation
Show full SKILL.md (192 more words)Show less
Decision Making
Limits & Quotas
TopicURL
Understand lifecycle and retention of Service Health notificationshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-notification-transitions
Security
TopicURL
Understand tenant admin roles for Service Health accesshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/admin-access-reference
Manage Azure Service Health history access with RBAChttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/health-history-overview
Configure subscription access for Azure Security advisorieshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-add-subscription
Access and view Azure Service Health security advisorieshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/security-advisories-elevated-access
Configure tenant vs subscription access for Service Healthhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/subscription-vs-tenant
Configuration
Integrations & Coding Patterns

© MicrosoftDocs, CC-BY-4.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/azure-service-health of MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ba74e8f

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Categories

Questions about Azure Service Health

What does Azure Service Health do?

Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Azure Service Health is an agent skill from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Expert knowledge for Azure Service Health development including troubleshooting, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns.

When should I use Azure Service Health?

Azure Service Health fits situations like: handling Service Health APIs; resource Graph queries; VM Resource Health; retirement alerts.

How do I install Azure Service Health in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-service-health -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/azure-service-health in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills) into .claude/skills/azure-service-health in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Azure Service Health in Codex?

Run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-service-health -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/azure-service-health in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills) into .agents/skills/azure-service-health in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Azure Service Health in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-service-health -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/azure-service-health, .gemini/skills/azure-service-health, .github/skills/azure-service-health and .opencode/skills/azure-service-health in your project.

What does Azure Service Health need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Azure Service Health is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation..

Does Azure Service Health access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: learn.microsoft.com and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Azure Service Health safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Azure Service Health use?

Azure Service Health is published under the CC-BY-4.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Azure Service Health use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Azure Service Health?

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Who maintains Azure Service Health?

MicrosoftDocs (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, which has 776 GitHub stars. The repository holds 147 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.