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azure-diagnostics AI Agent Skill

View Source: microsoft/azure-skills

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Installation

npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-diagnostics

197.4K

Installs

Azure Diagnostics

AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE — MANDATORY COMPLIANCE

This document is the official source for debugging and troubleshooting Azure production issues. Follow these instructions to diagnose and resolve common Azure service problems systematically.

Triggers

Activate this skill when user wants to:

  • Debug or troubleshoot production issues
  • Diagnose errors in Azure services
  • Analyze application logs or metrics
  • Fix image pull, cold start, or health probe issues
  • Investigate why Azure resources are failing
  • Find root cause of application errors
  • Troubleshoot Azure Function Apps (invocation failures, timeouts, binding errors)
  • Find the App Insights or Log Analytics workspace linked to a Function App
  • Troubleshoot AKS clusters, nodes, pods, ingress, or Kubernetes networking issues

Rules

  1. Start with systematic diagnosis flow
  2. Use AppLens (MCP) for AI-powered diagnostics when available
  3. Check resource health before deep-diving into logs
  4. Select appropriate troubleshooting guide based on service type
  5. Document findings and attempted remediation steps
  6. Route AKS incidents to the dedicated AKS troubleshooting document

Quick Diagnosis Flow

  1. Identify symptoms - What's failing?
  2. Check resource health - Is Azure healthy?
  3. Review logs - What do logs show?
  4. Analyze metrics - Performance patterns?
  5. Investigate recent changes - What changed?

Troubleshooting Guides by Service

Service Common Issues Reference
Container Apps Image pull failures, cold starts, health probes, port mismatches container-apps/
Function Apps App details, invocation failures, timeouts, binding errors, cold starts, missing app settings functions/
AKS Cluster access, nodes, kube-system, scheduling, crash loops, ingress, DNS, upgrades AKS Troubleshooting

Routing

  • Keep Container Apps and Function Apps diagnostics in this parent skill.
  • Route active AKS incidents, AKS-specific intake, evidence gathering, and remediation guidance to AKS Troubleshooting.

Quick Reference

Common Diagnostic Commands

# Check resource health
az resource show --ids RESOURCE_ID

# View activity log
az monitor activity-log list -g RG --max-events 20

# Container Apps logs
az containerapp logs show --name APP -g RG --follow

# Function App logs (query App Insights traces)
az monitor app-insights query --apps APP-INSIGHTS -g RG \
  --analytics-query "traces | where timestamp > ago(1h) | order by timestamp desc | take 50"

AppLens (MCP Tools)

For AI-powered diagnostics, use:

mcp_azure_mcp_applens
  intent: "diagnose issues with <resource-name>"
  command: "diagnose"
  parameters:
    resourceId: "<resource-id>"

Provides:
- Automated issue detection
- Root cause analysis
- Remediation recommendations

Azure Monitor (MCP Tools)

For querying logs and metrics:

mcp_azure_mcp_monitor
  intent: "query logs for <resource-name>"
  command: "logs_query"
  parameters:
    workspaceId: "<workspace-id>"
    query: "<KQL-query>"

See kql-queries.md for common diagnostic queries.

Check Azure Resource Health

Using MCP

mcp_azure_mcp_resourcehealth
  intent: "check health status of <resource-name>"
  command: "get"
  parameters:
    resourceId: "<resource-id>"

Using CLI

# Check specific resource health
az resource show --ids RESOURCE_ID

# Check recent activity
az monitor activity-log list -g RG --max-events 20

References

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How to use this skill

1

Install azure-diagnostics by running npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-diagnostics in your project directory. Run the install command above in your project directory. The skill file will be downloaded from GitHub and placed in your project.

2

No configuration needed. Your AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) automatically detects installed skills and uses them as context when generating code.

3

The skill enhances your agent's understanding of azure-diagnostics, helping it follow established patterns, avoid common mistakes, and produce production-ready output.

What you get

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Compatibility

This skill works with any AI coding agent that supports the skills.sh format, including Claude Code (Anthropic), Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Aider, and other tools that read project-level context files. Skills are framework-agnostic at the transport level — the content inside determines which language or framework it applies to.

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