Category: Development
Azure Diagnostics
Microsoft's official skill for systematically diagnosing and fixing Azure production issues with AppLens and Azure Monitor.
Works with
What it does
- Diagnoses image pulls, cold starts, and health probes on Container Apps, Function Apps, and AKS
- Uses AppLens (MCP) for AI-powered root cause analysis
- Queries logs and metrics with KQL through Azure Monitor (MCP)
- Follows a five-step flow: symptoms, resource health, logs, metrics, recent changes
When to use it
Good for narrowing down the cause when a service on Azure suddenly fails or slows down.
How to install
- Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-diagnostics
- To install manually, download the
azure-diagnosticsskill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as~/.claude/skills/or.cursor/skills/. - Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.