Azure Chaos Studio: bound a resilience test before disrupting production
A production runbook for controlling blast radius, execution identity, evidence, abort criteria and recovery for an Azure Chaos Studio scenario.
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Azure Resource Graph: reconstruct configuration drift before rollback
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A production runbook for mapping an ACR vulnerability signal to AKS pods, freezing promotion, returning to a known digest, validating the rollout, then retaining or deleting the suspect image.
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A production runbook for running an Azure Site Recovery test failover in an isolated network, validating dependencies, measuring application recovery and cleaning up unambiguously.
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A production runbook for qualifying poisoned Queue trigger messages, separating deterministic and transient failures, proving idempotency, then replaying or rolling back without duplicating business side effects.
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Read articleAgentOps: contain an AI agent consumption runaway before shutting down production
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Read articleGitHub Actions: prevent overlapping production deployments
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Read articleAzure Monitor: roll out a DCR transformation without losing telemetry
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Read articleTerraform: upgrade a provider without uncontrolled drift
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A production runbook for bounding a BGP change, comparing learned and advertised routes, checking effective routes, canarying one prefix, then validating or withdrawing it without destabilizing the Azure hub.
Read articleAzure AKS: unblock a node pool upgrade stopped by a PDB
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Read articleAzure Service Bus: repair a broken distributed trace before redeploying
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Read articleAgentOps: validate tool output before a production write
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Read articleAzure Deployment Stacks: validate unmanage and deny settings before an update
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Read articleAgentOps: diagnose permission drift before widening an agent's rights
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Read articleAzure Container Apps Jobs: diagnose a KEDA scale rule before rerunning workers
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Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose an offline self-hosted agent before recreating it
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure DevOps self-hosted agent that no longer picks up jobs by separating runner service, identity, network, disk, cache, pool, logs and rollback.
Read articleAzure Network Watcher: validate Flow Logs before opening an NSG rule
A production runbook for qualifying a blocked Azure flow with Network Watcher, NSG Flow Logs, effective security rules, routes, firewall, KQL evidence, validation and rollback before opening a broad rule.
Read articleAgentOps: validate the Foundry automation handoff before a production action
A production runbook for qualifying the handoff from a Microsoft Foundry agent to Azure Automation, AWX, Azure DevOps or an MCP tool with contract, identity, traces, dry run, human validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Firewall: validate Threat Intelligence before blocking production
A production runbook for qualifying Azure Firewall Threat Intelligence with logs, false positives, critical flows, targeted exceptions, deny decision and rollback before enabling Deny.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Azure API Management regression with APIM traces, policy diff, headers, cache, backend, identity, logs, validation and rollback before changing the API or target service.
Read articleAzure WAF: validate a managed rule upgrade before switching to Prevention
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure WAF OWASP/CRS managed rule upgrade with logs, false positives, Detection mode, policy diff, application validation, Prevention decision and rollback.
Read articleAzure APIM self-hosted gateway: diagnose sync drift before rerouting traffic
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure API Management self-hosted gateway with configuration sync, token or Workload Identity, Kubernetes, logs, backend reachability, validation and rollback before moving traffic.
Read articleAzure Durable Functions: diagnose an orchestration before replay or purge
A production runbook for qualifying a stuck Azure Durable Functions orchestration with instance history, activity state, storage, idempotency, KQL, validation and rollback before replay, terminate or purge.
Read articleAzure Container Apps: diagnose Managed Identity before widening a role
A production runbook for qualifying Azure Container Apps 401/403 failures with Managed Identity, token evidence, RBAC scope, Key Vault, ACR, logs, validation and rollback before widening permissions.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Storage lifecycle policy with Blob inventory, versions, snapshots, delete or tiering rules, evidence, validation and rollback before removing data.
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A production runbook for qualifying MCP server drift with tool manifests, schemas, identity, secrets, network path, traces, evaluations, validation and rollback before reauthorizing an AI agent.
Read articleAzure Functions: diagnose a Timer Trigger before replaying a job
A production runbook for qualifying a failed Azure Functions Timer Trigger with execution history, schedule locks, storage, Application Insights, idempotency, validation and rollback before manual replay.
Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose a Variable Group before rerunning deployment
A production runbook for qualifying Azure DevOps Variable Group drift with variables, secrets, Key Vault, scopes, logs, validation and rollback before rerunning a pipeline.
Read articleAzure Workbooks: diagnose observability drift before changing alerts
A production runbook for qualifying Azure Workbooks drift with KQL, Log Analytics, Application Insights, dimensions, ingestion latency, validation and rollback before changing alerts or dashboards.
Read articleAzure Front Door: qualify origin health before failing over
A production runbook for qualifying Azure Front Door origin health with probes, routing, DNS, TLS, WAF evidence, backend logs, validation and rollback before forcing failover.
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A production runbook for qualifying Azure WAF rate limiting with logs, counting key, real clients, false positives, load checks, threshold decision and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: scope an internal MCP server before exposing it to an agent
A production runbook for qualifying an internal MCP server with tool inventory, scopes, identities, secrets, audit, dry runs, evaluations, human validation and rollback before agent access.
Read articleAzure APIM: diagnose mTLS client certificate failures before changing policies
A production runbook for qualifying Azure API Management mTLS failures with client certificate chain, hostname, policy, gateway logs, backend identity, validation and rollback before changing API policies.
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Read articleAzure Service Health: qualify a regional signal before failover
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Service Health or Resource Health signal with user impact, dependencies, routing, DNS, observability, failover decision and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose a failed tool call before retrying a production action
A production runbook for qualifying a failed AI agent tool call with trace evidence, idempotence, identity, backend state, approvals, validation and rollback before retrying.
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A production runbook for qualifying AI agent memory with sources, traces, aging, permissions, evaluations, guardrails, human validation and rollback before it influences real actions.
Read articleAzure Backup: validate a restore point before declaring rollback ready
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Backup restore point with application consistency, dependencies, identity, networking, test restore, evidence, decision and rollback before cutover.
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Read articleAgentOps: validate an evaluation set before promoting an AI agent
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Read articleAzure App Service: diagnose a Managed Identity token failure before bringing back a client secret
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Read articleAzure DevOps: diagnose a self-hosted agent before rerunning the pipeline
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure DevOps failure on a self-hosted agent with disk, workspace, cache, local services, identity, logs, controlled cleanup, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Firewall: qualify a broad rule before tightening production access
A production runbook for tightening an Azure Firewall rule without breaking useful traffic, with inventory, KQL evidence, dependencies, controlled validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure APIM: diagnose a subscription key before rotating it in production
A production runbook for qualifying Azure API Management 401/403 errors with subscription key, product, API, consumer, logs, validation and rollback before rotation.
Read articleAzure Monitor: diagnose ingestion latency before changing a KQL alert
A production runbook for qualifying a delayed Azure Monitor alert by separating application timestamps, Log Analytics ingestion, KQL query windows, evaluation frequency, action groups, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure App Service: diagnose egress IP drift before changing an allowlist
A production runbook for qualifying App Service egress IP drift with VNet Integration, NAT Gateway, DNS, UDRs, destination logs, validation and rollback before changing a partner allowlist.
Read articleAzure Logic Apps: diagnose a workflow before resubmitting the run
A production runbook for qualifying a failed Azure Logic Apps execution with trigger, connectors, managed identity, payload, logs, validation and rollback before resubmit.
Read articleAzure Cosmos DB: diagnose 429 throttling before increasing RU/s
A production runbook for qualifying Cosmos DB 429 throttling with RU consumption, hot partitions, query shape, SDK retries, indexing, KQL evidence, scaling decision and rollback.
Read articleMicrosoft Foundry: validate guardrails before exposing an agent to production
A production runbook for qualifying Microsoft Foundry agent guardrails with sources, refusals, tools, identity, traces, canary, human validation and rollback before user exposure.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose prompt injection in retrieval before production actions
A production runbook for qualifying suspected prompt injection in an AI agent retrieval corpus with sources, traces, evaluation, tools, guardrails, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure Key Vault: diagnose latency and throttling before rotating secrets
A production runbook for qualifying Key Vault degradation by separating latency, throttling, identity, network path, application cache, logs and rollback before starting a secret rotation.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Azure DevOps deployment blocked by approvals or checks with environment scope, identity, logs, audit evidence, validation and rollback before bypassing the guardrail.
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A production runbook for qualifying an agent approval policy change with action scope, identity, traces, evaluation cases, guardrails, human validation and rollback.
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A production runbook for qualifying an unhealthy Azure Load Balancer backend with probe behavior, NSGs, routing, logs, pool configuration, validation and rollback before changing the rule or redeploying.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Application Gateway TLS certificate rotation from Key Vault with managed identity, listener checks, WAF evidence, probes, logs, validation and rollback.
Read articleAzure IaC: validate an infrastructure plan before production apply
A production runbook for qualifying a Terraform, Bicep or ARM plan before apply with drift, CI identity, Azure Policy, destructive changes, validation and rollback.
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A production runbook for qualifying Azure OpenAI or Microsoft Foundry throttling with quota, deployment capacity, agent traces, retries, fallback, validation and rollback before changing models.
Read articleAzure Managed Grafana: diagnose a dashboard or alert before changing KQL
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Managed Grafana dashboard or alert with Azure Monitor datasource, managed identity, Log Analytics permissions, variables, traces, validation and rollback before changing KQL queries.
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A production runbook for rotating or revoking an AI agent runtime identity with scoped permissions, dry-run tool calls, traces, approvals, validation and rollback before breaking production actions.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Front Door failure with origin groups, health probes, TLS, Private Link, DNS, WAF, logs, validation and rollback before changing routing.
Read articleAzure Event Grid: diagnose dead-lettered events before replay
A production runbook for qualifying Azure Event Grid delivery failures with subscription filters, endpoint health, dead-letter storage, diagnostics, replay scope, validation and rollback before reprocessing events.
Read articleAzure Key Vault: diagnose secret references before rotation
A production runbook for qualifying a Key Vault reference failure with managed identity, RBAC, secret version, diagnostics, KQL, validation and rollback before rotating or broadening access.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Monitor alert that fired but did not notify anyone, with action groups, receivers, processing rules, webhooks, evidence, validation and rollback.
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A production runbook for qualifying Azure asymmetric routing with effective routes, UDRs, Azure Firewall, NAT Gateway, flow logs, validation and rollback before changing route tables.
Read articleAzure Automation: diagnose a runbook before rerunning the job
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure Automation failure with managed identity, parameters, modules, Hybrid Worker, webhooks, logs, validation and rollback before rerun.
Read articleAzure Automation: validate a scheduled runbook before it changes production
A production runbook for qualifying a scheduled Azure Automation job with trigger, managed identity, parameters, dry-run, logs, validation and rollback before allowing real action.
Read articleAgentOps: validate an agent tool before it can change production
A production runbook for qualifying a new AI agent tool with contract review, scoped identity, dry run, traces, approvals, evaluation cases and rollback before enabling real actions.
Read articleAgentOps: validate a retrieval index update before it changes production answers
A production runbook for qualifying a retrieval index update with source diff, metadata, chunking, evaluations, traces, human validation and rollback before changing an AI agent's answers.
Read articleAzure App Configuration: diagnose a feature flag before rollback
A production runbook for qualifying an Azure App Configuration or feature flag regression with labels, identities, refresh, Key Vault references, logs, validation and rollback.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose missing agent traces before restoring a production action
A production runbook for qualifying incomplete AI agent traces with conversation events, sources, tool calls, identities, approvals, evaluations and rollback before restoring an action.
Read articleAzure WAF: prepare an evidence pack before a policy PR
A production runbook for documenting an Azure WAF change with KQL evidence, policy diff, application probes, security validation, merge decision and rollback.
Read articleAzure Policy remediation: fix drift without breaking production
A production runbook for running Azure Policy remediation with impact preview, managed identity checks, controlled batches, exemptions, logs and rollback.
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A production runbook for qualifying an Azure WAF policy before switching to Prevention with KQL evidence, change scope, application validation, rollback window and an operable decision.
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A production runbook for exposing MCP tools to an AI agent while keeping action scope, approvals, identities, logs, evaluation and rollback under control.
Read articleAgentOps: diagnose an AI agent that calls the wrong tool
A production runbook for qualifying an AI agent that selects the wrong tool, acts without evidence or hides an action behind a plausible answer.
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