Built-in Azure role able to read every kind of monitoring data and change monitoring configuration such as alerts, action groups and diagnostic settings. It cannot alter other resources or locks.
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Terms in this definition
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- Action groups
Sets of notification and automation targets in Azure Monitor that an alert calls when it fires. Detecting the problem is the alert rule's job, not theirs.
Related terms
- Email Azure Resource Manager role
Action group notification type: when an alert fires, it emails every user or group assigned the chosen subscription-level role, whether Monitoring Reader, Reader, Owner, Monitoring Contributor or Contributor.