# Azure Monitor & Azure Service Health

## Azure Monitor

* Centralized dashboard for **most** of your Azure Resources

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* Generally free but you pay for storage

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## Azure Service Health

* How do you know if Azure itself has issues?
* Shows issues of Azure world wide
* Can see history of Incidents
* RCA - Root cause analysis report
* Can be added to your dashboard