Azure Reliability

Azure Reliability Assessment & Configuration

Quick Reference

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when user wants to:

• "Assess my Function app's reliability"
• "Assess my Web app's reliability"
• "Check the reliability of my resource group" (App Service and Functions resources only)
• "Is my app zone redundant?" (App Service and Functions resources only)
• "Is my app service plan zone redundant?"
• "Make my app zone redundant" (App Service and Functions resources only)
• "Make my app service plan zone redundant"
• "Set up multi-region failover for my app" (App Service and Functions resources only)
• "Check my reliability posture"
• "Find single points of failure" (App Service and Functions resources only)
• "Enable high availability for my app" (App Service and Functions resources only)
• "Check disaster recovery readiness"
• "Improve my app's resilience" (App Service and Functions resources only)

Scope note: This skill currently covers Azure Functions and Azure App Service only. If the user asks about Azure Container Apps reliability, acknowledge that support is planned but not yet available, and only proceed with the parts that apply to App Service and Functions resources in scope.

Prerequisites

• Authentication: user is logged in to Azure via az login
• Permissions: Reader access on target subscription/resource group (for assessment)
• Permissions: Contributor access (for configuration changes)
• Azure Resource Graph extension: az extension add --name resource-graph

MCP Tools

Primary query method: Azure Resource Graph via az graph query (requires az extension add --name resource-graph).

Assessment Workflow

Phase 1: Discover Resources

1. Identify scope — Ask user for resource group, subscription, or app name
2. Query Azure Resource Graph to discover all resources in scope
3. Classify resources by service type (Functions, Storage, etc.). If non-Functions compute (App Service sites that aren't Function Apps, Container Apps) is found, note it but do not deep-dive — those services are planned for a future version of this skill.

Important: Always scope queries to the user's specified resource group or subscription. Add these filters to every Resource Graph query:

• Resource group: | where resourceGroup =~ '<rg-name>'
• Subscription: Use --subscriptions <sub-id> flag on az graph query
• App name: | where name =~ '<app-name>'

Phase 2: Assess Reliability

Two-step assessment: platform-level discovery first, then per-service deep dive.

Step 1 — Platform discovery (find what's there). Use these to enumerate resources in scope and detect cross-cutting reliability gaps:

Step 2 — Per-service deep dive. For each compute resource discovered in Step 1, load the matching service reference. The service reference is the single source of truth for that service's plan/SKU rules, assessment queries, CLI commands, IaC patches (Bicep + Terraform + AVM), and reporting hints.

This skill version ships only the Azure Functions and App Service per-service references. Other compute services are listed below explicitly so the dispatch logic is unambiguous: if a resource matches an unsupported row, do not attempt to load a reference, fabricate CLI commands, or generate IaC patches for it.

Handling unsupported services: If a resource matches an unsupported row above, surface it in the discovery summary, mark it as ⚪ not assessed (planned) in the Phase 3 table, and skip the per-service remediation steps for it. Do not attempt to fabricate CLI commands or IaC patches for those services.

Phase 3: Generate Reliability Checklist

Present findings as a feature-pivoted table: one row per reliability feature (Zone redundancy on compute, Zone-redundant storage, Health probes, Multi-region failover), with a single status indicator and the specific resources that are relevant to that feature. This avoids the noise of one-row-per-resource with mostly n/a cells. Do not assign numeric scores or grades.

🔍 Reliability Assessment — {scope}
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Reliability Feature              Status      Resources
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Zone redundancy — compute        🔴 OFF      • plan-web-ii5trxva2ark4 (P1v3)
                                              • plan-ii5trxva2ark4 (FC1)

Zone-redundant storage           🔴 GRS      • stii5trxva2ark4 (defaulted; no SKU set in IaC)

Health probes                    🔴 OFF      • func-api-ii5trxva2ark4 — needs code change (FC1)
                                              • app-web-ii5trxva2ark4 — no health check path

Multi-region failover            🔴 OFF      • Single region (eastus) only — Front Door not configured
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Want me to fix the 🔴 items? I'll do the quick wins first (App
plan zone redundancy + health checks on supported plans), then ask before
storage migration and multi-region setup. (yes/no)

Rules for the table:

• Four feature rows, in this order: Zone redundancy — compute · Zone-redundant storage · Health probes · Multi-region failover. Omit a row entirely only if no resource in scope could ever apply to it.
• Status column is one symbol + one short word, no other characters:
• 🟢 ON — feature is fully enabled across all relevant resources in scope
• 🟡 PARTIAL — some resources have it, some don't (or partial config like liveness-only)
• 🔴 OFF — feature is missing on all relevant resources
• For storage, replace OFF with the current SKU when relevant (🔴 LRS, 🔴 GRS, 🟢 ZRS, 🟢 GZRS). When no SKU is set in IaC, label as 🔴 GRS (ARM/AVM default) and note that in the resource line.
• Resources column lists only what's relevant to that feature, one bullet per resource: