Machines in Azure has a health service sends a heartbeat notice to a management server which informs that the machine is still responding. After a number of failures do not arrive, Azure Arc reports an alert.
If you want to use the Windows GUI to see how the Azure Arc heart beat is working, check Microsoft Monitoring Agent in SERVICES.MSC.
If you need to verify that Azure Arc is still working simply:
- Open a PowerShell or Windows Terminal as an Administrator
- Type
azcmagent show
- look at the status of the GC SERVICE, EXTENSION SERVICE and the AGENT SERVICE
- Type
azcmagent check
for more details

How To Troubleshoot Azure Arc Monitor Agent
For full details on how to troubleshoot the Azure Monitor Agent, click HERE for a very good Microsoft article.
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