The Azure Service Health dashboard, used to check the status of Azure services, has reached the 'general availability' stage, Microsoft announced this week.

The Azure service health dashboard showed only one problem at 3 p.m. GMT, a “performance degradation” in the south-central U.S. Compute zone.

Improve Service Health Dashboard Infrastructure and protocols. "We apologize for the impact and inconvenience this has caused," the Azure team repeated.

On Feb. 28, the company’s S3 storage service running in its northern Virginia data center was knocked offline for several hours, taking with it a who’s-who of popular websites and services.

Last fall, some U.S.-based Azure customers, especially those in the East US region, reported they were hitting capacity constraints, especially when trying to spin up virtual machines. At that ...

“SHD” is the Service Health Dashboard, a service that lets Azure subscribers monitor the availability of Azure services. So saying SHD Banner is having problems doesn’t say anything about ...

The dashboard had been at the preview stage since July, but now Microsoft deems it ready for use in production environments. Azure Service Health, available through the Azure Portal, has a Summary ...

The Azure service health dashboard showed only one problem at 3 p.m. GMT, a “performance degradation” in the south-central U.S. Compute zone.