Quick Diagnosis Cards¶

Use these cards when you need to route a VM incident quickly without reading the full playbooks first.

Rapid triage map¶

graph TD
    A[Rapid symptom check] --> B[Connectivity card]
    A --> C[Performance card]
    A --> D[Boot and recovery card]

If you see	Check first	Then open
RDP or SSH timeout	NSG, effective routes, VM power state	Cannot RDP or SSH
DNS lookup fails	VNet DNS settings, `168.63.129.16`, peering	DNS and Connectivity Issues
extension install/provisioning failed	VM agent status, extension logs, outbound access	Extension Failures

If you see	Check first	Then open
general slowness	CPU, memory, disk, network trend	Slow Performance
one metric pinned high	top process, paging, queue depth, credits	High CPU / Memory / Disk
storage latency or throttling	disk tier, caching, VM cap, `iostat`	Disk Performance Issues

If you see	Check first	Then open
VM won't enter running state	Activity Log, boot screenshot, recent size/host events	VM Won't Start
no network access during startup issue	Boot Diagnostics and Serial Console	Boot Diagnostics and Serial Console
backup or snapshot failure	backup error code, VM agent, disk lock	Backup Failures

graph TD
    A[Card used] --> B[First 10 Minutes checklist]
    B --> C[Canonical playbook]
    C --> D[Collect evidence before changing config]