You have an AzureDevOps organization named Contoso and an Azure subscription. The subscription contains an Azure virtual machine scale set named…

The proposed solution correctly identifies the method for configuring autoscale notifications. Azure Monitor is the centralized service for managing autoscale settings for Azure resources, including Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Within the autoscale settings for a specific resource like VMSS1, there is a "Notify" tab. This tab allows you to configure email notifications to be sent to subscription administrators, co-administrators, and/or additional specified email addresses whenever an autoscale action (scale-out or scale-in) is triggered. This directly meets the requirement of generating an email alert for scaling events.

B. No: This is incorrect. The described solution is the standard and officially documented procedure in Microsoft Azure for setting up email alerts for autoscale events.

1. Microsoft Docs

Azure Monitor documentation

"Get started with autoscale in Azure": This document details the process of setting up autoscale. Under the "Create your first autoscale setting" section

step 7 describes the Notify tab: "The Notify tab allows you to configure notifications to be sent when an autoscale event occurs... You can also configure notifications to be sent to webhooks to route notifications to other systems." This confirms that autoscale settings in Azure Monitor are the correct place to configure email alerts.

2. Microsoft Docs

Azure Monitor documentation

"Overview of autoscale in Microsoft Azure": In the section "Autoscale notifications

" it states

"Autoscale can post notifications when an autoscale event occurs. You can configure autoscale to send an email notification to an email address or post to a webhook." This further validates that the autoscale feature within Azure Monitor includes the required notification capabilities.

3. Microsoft Docs

Azure Monitor documentation

"Common autoscale patterns": Under the "Autoscale notifications" section

it explicitly mentions

"Autoscale can send email to the subscription administrator and co-administrators

or to any other email addresses you specify." This directly supports the solution of using autoscale settings to generate email alerts.