Microsoft has introduced a new feature in its Monitor service that allows IT and Operations teams to receive hourly alerts for critical business resources. This update enables closer monitoring of supported health metrics, which previously refreshed only daily. The new hourly alerts can be set for individual apps, flows, and agents, providing earlier awareness of performance or success rate changes.
The feature will be available as a Public Preview in all commercial clouds by 11/20/26. Users can configure alert rules to evaluate hourly metric aggregates and trigger notifications when a set threshold is breached. This allows teams to prioritize investigations and respond more quickly to business-critical issues.
To create these alerts, users can navigate to the Microsoft 365 admin center for Copilot Managed Runtime apps or the Power Platform admin center for supported Power Platform resources. They can then select a metric, set the Data review period to 1 hour, and configure the operator, threshold, severity, and notification settings.
Hourly alerts are currently supported for Copilot Managed Runtime apps and specific Power Platform resources, including canvas apps, model-driven apps, code apps, cloud flows, and agents. Users can create up to 10 hourly alert rules in each admin center.