Azure Service Health notifies the azure datacenter and services incident and planned maintenance in the portal or Azure status site. Based on notifies can mitigate downtime of operations. From Azure Service Health configure customisable alerts and personalized dashboard for monitor the impact of cloud resources proactive downtime mitigation.

Log in to Azure Portal – Search Service Health

Azure Service Health provides information on the Azure Service Health Status issues, health alerts and scheduled maintenance.

The Global Azure Health Status can be viewed from here. 

To create Health Alert Rules so the moment an incident happened or planned, you will be notified promptly.

Other than the general service-related filters, you can select 3 event types as,

• Service issue
• Planned maintenance
• Health advisories
• Security advisory

Apart from Microsoft Service Health or Azure Status, you check with downdetector site for real-time problem & outage monitoring.

Link : https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/