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Final Update: Sunday, 05 September 2021 15:21 UTC

We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 09/05, 15:10 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 09/05, 13:15 UTC and that during the 1 hour 55 minutes that it took to resolve the issue some customers might have experienced errors when accessing or updating alerts. The alerts notifications are not impacted.
  • Root Cause: The failure was due backend dependency.
  • Incident Timeline: 1 Hours & 55 minutes – 09/05, 13:15 UTC through 09/05, 15:10 UTC
We understand that customers rely on Azure monitor as a critical service and apologize for any impact this incident caused.

-Srikanth

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