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Azure Diagnostics Skill

Azure Diagnostics is Microsoft's systematic production-triage workflow for moving from symptoms to resource health, logs, metrics, recent changes, and service-specific next steps.

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Best for

Azure operators and site-reliability engineers

What you get

Frame the incident + Correlate evidence

Main limitation

Useful diagnosis requires accurate Azure resource context, time windows, telemetry retention, and sufficient read permissions.

First risk

Production remediation without sufficient evidence. Diagnostic commands may expose sensitive telemetry, and premature remediation can worsen an outage. Separate read-only evidence collection from writes, redact shared output, and require approval for changes.

EVIDENCE FRESHNESS

Three checks, kept separate

A recent source check is not a runtime test or security audit.

Upstream sourceChecked 2026-08-20

Pinned revision · ea76537e

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Updated 2026-08-20

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IN PLAIN ENGLISH

What it does—and when it fits

Azure Diagnostics is Microsoft's systematic production-triage workflow for moving from symptoms to resource health, logs, metrics, recent changes, and service-specific next steps. It uses AppLens or Azure Monitor where available and routes Container Apps, App Service, Functions, AKS, VMs, and messaging services to focused references.

This is aimed at Azure operators and site-reliability engineers. Compare the examples below with your task, then review the limitations, permissions, and risks before installing.

What you get
  • Frame the incidentCapture symptoms, scope, timing, affected resources, and resource-health signals before guessing a cause.
  • Correlate evidenceQuery relevant logs and metrics, use KQL or AppLens where appropriate, and compare recent changes.
  • Route service-specific diagnosisContinue with the reference tailored to the affected Azure compute or messaging service.
What makes it different
  • This profile is manually organized around the current upstream SKILL.md workflow.
  • The capability boundary remains explicitly tied to microsoft/azure-skills.
  • Core uses, limitations, and risks are separated for pre-install review.
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INSTALL BY AGENT

Choose your Agent

Paths come from official Agent docs or the universal installer behind skills.sh. Compatibility still follows this Skill's record.

Native

This Skill's current record explicitly names this Agent. Still inspect scripts, permissions, and external dependencies first.

Project install (recommended)
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-diagnostics --agent claude-code
Personal install
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-diagnostics --agent claude-code -g

Project install stays with this repository for team sharing. Personal install adds -g and works across repositories.

View install paths
Project path.claude/skills/azure-diagnostics/
Personal path~/.claude/skills/azure-diagnostics/
Official agent docs

Claude Code discovers custom Skill folders automatically at project or personal scope.

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TYPICAL WORKFLOW

A practical workflow

01

Frame the incident

Capture symptoms, scope, timing, affected resources, and resource-health signals before guessing a cause.

02

Correlate evidence

Query relevant logs and metrics, use KQL or AppLens where appropriate, and compare recent changes.

03

Route service-specific diagnosis

Continue with the reference tailored to the affected Azure compute or messaging service.

THE TRADEOFFS

Advantages and tradeoffs

Notable strengths

  1. This profile is manually organized around the current upstream SKILL.md workflow.
  2. The capability boundary remains explicitly tied to microsoft/azure-skills.
  3. Core uses, limitations, and risks are separated for pre-install review.

Limitations

  1. Useful diagnosis requires accurate Azure resource context, time windows, telemetry retention, and sufficient read permissions.
  2. The workflow structures investigation but cannot guarantee a root cause when telemetry is absent or symptoms span external systems.

COMPARE THE TRADEOFF

Consider these close alternatives

These are deterministic nearby candidates, not paid placements or a universal ranking. Open the full profile before choosing.

01

Same job family · native to Codex + Claude Code

containerize-aspnet-framework

Create Windows container files for ASP.NET Framework projects.
Tradeoff to check
Detailed package files are not fully catalogued.
First risk
Review before install · Medium
Source state
Pinned · 1f564408
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02

Same job family · native to Codex + Claude Code

create-github-issues-feature-from-implementation-plan

Split implementation-plan phases into trackable GitHub issues.
Tradeoff to check
Detailed package files are not fully catalogued.
First risk
Review before install · Medium
Source state
Pinned · 1f564408
Open create-github-issues-feature-from-implementation-plan profile ↗
03

Same job family · native to Codex + Claude Code

create-github-issues-for-unmet-specification-requirements

Open issues for specification requirements not yet implemented.
Tradeoff to check
Detailed package files are not fully catalogued.
First risk
Review before install · Medium
Source state
Pinned · 1f564408
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BEST FIT

Who it is for

→

Azure operators and site-reliability engineers

→

Platform teams handling production incidents

BEFORE YOU USE IT

Risks to review before use

High

Production remediation without sufficient evidence

Diagnostic commands may expose sensitive telemetry, and premature remediation can worsen an outage. Separate read-only evidence collection from writes, redact shared output, and require approval for changes.

Medium

Upstream instruction drift

Behavior can change with upstream updates. Record the commit used for important workflows and review updates before adoption.

SECURITY

What the permission profile means

  • Declared access remains governed by the current upstream SKILL.md and runtime requests.
  • Treat repository files, web content, and tool output as untrusted input.
  • SkillSignal has not independently executed or security-audited this package; external skills.sh labels are not SkillSignal certification.

Not a security certification. External ratings are attributed references. SkillSignal has not independently executed or security-reviewed this Skill.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Azure Diagnostics Skill FAQ

What is the Azure Diagnostics Skill?

Azure Diagnostics is Microsoft's systematic production-triage workflow for moving from symptoms to resource health, logs, metrics, recent changes, and service-specific next steps. It uses AppLens or Azure Monitor where available and routes Container Apps, App Service, Functions, AKS, VMs, and messaging services to focused references.

How do I install the Azure Diagnostics Skill?

Open and review the listed source, choose the project or personal path for your Agent, then verify the first run in a controlled project. Open the listed skills.sh page and upstream repository; verify the current SKILL.md.

Is the Azure Diagnostics Skill safe to use?

SkillSignal checked the source on 2026-08-20, but that is not a runtime test or security certification. Review the “Production remediation without sufficient evidence” risk first and begin with the least access required.

INSIDE THE PACKAGE

Indexed files

SKILL.mdUpstream Skill instructionsSource-linked

TAGS

azurediagnosticsproduction

Manually expanded from the current upstream SKILL.md and linked source at microsoft/azure-skills, checked 2026-08-20. This is an original summary, not an execution result or security certification.