Perform the following steps:
- Navigate to the Availability blade and click on the Add test button, as shown in the following screenshot:
- In the Create test blade, enter a meaningful name for your requirement and paste the function app URL, which you noted down in step 2 of the preceding Getting ready section, in the URL field of the Create test blade. In the Alerts blade, provide a valid email address in the Send alert emails to these email addresses: field, to which an alert should be sent if the function is not available or not responding:
- Click on OK in the Alerts blade, and then click on the Create button of the Create test blade to create the test, as shown in the following screenshot, in the All availability tests section:
- In order to test the functionality of this alert, let's stop the function app by clicking on the Stop button, found in the Overview tab of the function app.
- When the function app was stopped, Application Insights will try to access the function URL using the ping test. The response code will not be 200, as the app was stopped, which means the test failed and a notification should have been sent to the configured email, as shown in the following screenshot:
