What needs attention
Alerts highlight sustained failures, resource pressure, and overdue backups. A brief spike should not become a flood of notifications. Existing alert contacts and rules are reused.
Freshness matters
A chart can look calm because nothing new is arriving. The portal marks missing or old data explicitly. Check collection health before trusting a quiet graph.
When the portal is down
Cloud-based checks continue to monitor the local endpoint. Use Grafana directly and open the recovery instructions in this wiki.