The Frontier Azure SRE Agent Solution is a comprehensive framework designed to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of applications deployed on Microsoft Azure. This solution provides a set of tools, best practices, and automation scripts that enable Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to effectively monitor, manage, and optimize their cloud infrastructure using Azure SRE agent.
Choose a track based on the operational system you want Azure SRE Agent to investigate:
| Track | Challenges | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Operations | 20 | Agent fundamentals, Azure observability, autonomous incident response, and FinOps |
| SQL Server DBA | 10 | Read-only database discovery, Query Store, waits, blocking, query-performance diagnostics, and a build-your-own capstone |
Open web/index.html in a browser for the interactive UI (coach mode: Shift+C). See also the
Scenario Explorer — a searchable library of 77 real-world Azure SRE Agent
scenario ideas with ready-to-use sample prompts, sourced from
alsanch/azure-sre-agent-scenarios.
Twenty hands-on challenges with a progressive learning path: from agent fundamentals through advanced autonomous operations and FinOps.
Capability progression: Knowledge → Skills → MCP → Subagents → Response Plans → Telemetry → Investigation → Incidents → GitHub → Code Analysis → Auto-Remediation → Scheduled Tasks → Executive Operations → FinOps
| # | Challenge | Capability |
|---|---|---|
| 00 | Prerequisites & Lab Setup | Deploy infrastructure, configure agent |
| 01 | Connect Your Codebase | GitHub OAuth Connector · Repository Connection |
| 02 | Explore the Knowledge Base | Knowledge Bases · Grounded Responses |
| 03 | Discover Operational Skills | Skills · Operational Runbooks |
| 04 | Discover Connected Systems | MCP · Tool Discovery |
| 05 | Discover Specialist Agents | Subagents · Agent Routing |
| 06 | Understand Response Plans | Response Plans · Automation · Governance |
| 07 | Hybrid Ecosystem Telemetry | Log Analytics · Syslog · OpenTelemetry |
| 08 | Application Dependency Mapping | Service Dependency Analysis · App Topology |
| 09 | Daily Application Health Report | SLI/SLO · Operational Reporting |
| 10 | Incident to GitHub Issue | Incident Lifecycle · GitHub Integration |
| 11 | Guest OS Failure Investigation | Azure Monitor Agent · Syslog · VM Troubleshooting |
| 12 | Network Security Investigation | NSGs · Flow Logs · Network Forensics |
| 13 | Routing Failure Investigation | UDRs · Effective Routes · Next Hop |
| 14 | Application Root Cause Analysis | Telemetry Correlation · Source Code Analysis |
| 15 | Autonomous Remediation | Response Plans · Auto-remediation · Validation |
| 16 | Daily Network Health Report | Scheduled Tasks · Proactive Operations |
| 17 | Observability Freshness Verification | Monitoring the Monitoring · Coverage Analysis |
| 18 | Subscription Cost Optimization Review | FinOps · Azure Advisor · Cost Governance |
| 19 | Build Your Own Production-Ready SRE Agent | Capstone: design, implement & demo |
Ten challenges use a dedicated, read-only SQL Server MCP server to turn Azure SRE Agent into a database reliability specialist. The track moves from secure deployment and schema orientation through deterministic performance incidents to a build-your-own DBA agent capstone.
Capability progression: MCP trust boundary → Schema discovery → Query Store → Wait interpretation → Blocking → Index analysis → SARGability → Parameter sensitivity → Incident triage → Custom DBA agent capstone
| # | Challenge | Capability |
|---|---|---|
| 00 | Deploy the Read-Only DBA Path | Managed identity · Least privilege · SQL Server MCP |
| 01 | Orient to the Database | Business domains · Schema · Relationships |
| 02 | Establish a Query Store Baseline | Historical evidence · Observation windows |
| 03 | Separate Duration from Pressure | Active requests · Wait interpretation |
| 04 | Trace a Blocking Chain | Head blocker · Wait resource · Transaction age |
| 05 | Build an Evidence-Based Index Case | Query Store · Existing indexes · Estimated plans |
| 06 | Diagnose Query Shape Problems | SARGability · Implicit conversion |
| 07 | Investigate Parameter Sensitivity | Data skew · Plan variation · Runtime distribution |
| 08 | Triage a Combined Database Incident | Evidence ranking · Alternative explanations · Handoff |
| 09 | Build Your Own SQL Server DBA Agent | Custom agent · Investigation design · Read-only validation |
The MCP server code, SQL setup, workloads, custom-agent assets, and secure
deployment guide are under
Student/Resources/sql-server-mcp/.
Coaches: see Coach/README.md for the Azure Operations guides and Coach/sql-server-dba/README.md for the SQL Server DBA guides.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!