Power Platform Monitor Alerts are now GA and every admin should turn them on

Did you know that Power Platform Monitor alerts are now generally available, so you can move from reactive firefighting to proactive operations across apps, flows, and agents?

If your team still discovers reliability issues from user tickets, this release is a big deal. GA means the capability has reached Microsoft reliability and maturity standards for production use, not just experimentation.

The alerts-centric Monitor overview gives you instant visibility into active alert conditions.

What is now GA, exactly?

Power Platform Monitor alerts let tenant and environment admins define threshold-based alert rules on operational health metrics and get notified when conditions are breached.

At GA, you get two layers of value:

• Predefined alerts from Microsoft enabled by default at tenant scope
• Custom alert rules you create for environment-wide or resource-level monitoring

This combination is strong: predefined alerts help you spot obvious risk immediately, while custom rules let you tune thresholds to your own SLAs.

The biggest GA upgrade: predefined alerts

Predefined alerts are the fastest way to get signal without setup. Microsoft now provides built-in alert definitions for high-use resources with degraded health.

Examples include high-use resources dropping under baseline thresholds like:

• Canvas app availability under 90%
• Model-driven app availability under 90%
• Cloud flow success rate under 90%
• Desktop flow success rate under 90%
• Agent success rate under 90%

These predefined alerts are:

• Turned on by default
• Tenant-wide
• Not editable
• Visible in Monitor (they do not send email notifications)

Predefined alerts surface high-use resources with degraded health, even before you create custom rules.

What custom alerts give you in GA

Custom alerts are where operations teams create real monitoring ownership.

You can configure:

• Product and resource type (Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio)
• Scope (environment or specific resource)
• Metric, operator, and threshold
• Severity (Low, Medium, High)
• Email notifications to you and up to four additional recipients

Custom alert rules let you monitor what matters to your organization, not only Microsoft defaults.

You can also manage rules centrally from the alert rules list.

Manage, enable, disable, edit, and review your custom alert rules from one place.

Important GA realities admins should know

• Alerts are evaluated on a 24-hour cadence, based on aggregated metrics.
• Custom alert rules currently require Managed Environments.
• Tenant administrators and environment administrators can create/manage alerts.
• A tenant can have up to 50 alert rules turned on at one time.
• Predefined alerts are view-only and currently cannot be disabled.
• Predefined alerts do not send email; custom alerts can.

This means you should treat Monitor alerts as proactive daily health signals, not real-time incident paging.

Recommended rollout pattern

Use a phased rollout so your team gets value fast without creating alert noise.

1. Start with predefined alerts Review Monitor overview and identify which high-use resources are already showing degradation.

2. Create 3-5 high-value custom rules Prioritize production environments and business-critical apps/flows.

3. Standardize naming Use names like Prod - Cloud flows - Success rate under 95.

4. Set triage ownership Define who checks alerts daily, who contacts makers, and who tracks remediation.

5. Tune thresholds monthly Avoid stale thresholds as usage and load patterns change.

What is supported now

Based on GA guidance and current documentation, alerting supports:

• Code apps
• Canvas apps
• Model-driven apps
• Cloud flows
• Desktop flows
• Agents

Work queue alerts are also available, but remain public preview.

Why this matters for enterprise governance

Monitor alerts close a real operational gap in many Power Platform programs:

• Governance teams get measurable health visibility
• Makers get earlier feedback before users complain
• Operations teams can prioritize by severity and usage impact
• Leadership gets a path from reactive support to proactive reliability

If your platform strategy includes scale, this GA feature should be part of your standard operating model now.

Learn more

• GA announcement: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/power-apps/power-platform-monitor-alerts-are-now-generally-available/
• Official alerts documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/monitoring/alerts