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-Welcome to the Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) site!  The purpose of this site is to provide best practice guidance around key alerts metrics and their thresholds.
 
-This sites is broken down into two main sections:
-1. **Azure Resources:** This section provides guidance for individual Azure resources.  For each service, there is a list of key alert metrics and the recommended thresholds.
+## Our Mission
 
+Welcome to the **Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA)** site!  The purpose of this site is to provide best practice guidance around key alerts and thresholds for your azure resources.
+
+This sites is broken down into three main sections:
+
+1. **Azure Resources:** this section provides guidance for individual Azure resources.  For each service, there is a list of key alert and the recommended thresholds.
 2. **Patterns / Scenarios:** This section provides guidance for common patterns / scenarios (like Azure Landing Zones), as well as policy definition and initiatives for deploying the alerts in your environment.
+3. **Visualizations**: This section provides different options to visualize the data from your connected sources.
+
+To learn more as to why alerts are important and how to get started with your Azure Monitor journey, keep reading the sections below!
 
 ## Why is configuring alerts important?
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 When deploying Azure resources, it is crucial to configure alerts to ensure the health, performance, and security of your resources. By setting up alerts, you can proactively monitor your resources and take timely actions to address any issues that may arise.
 
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 5. **Proactive capacity planning**: Alerts provide valuable information for capacity planning and scaling your resources. By monitoring resource utilization trends over time, you can identify patterns and forecast future resource requirements. This helps you avoid performance bottlenecks and ensure a smooth user experience.
 
+## Monitor your environment
+
+---
+I want to:
+
+* [Learn about Monitoring](#learn-about-monitoring)
+* Be notified on the health for every [Microsoft Service consumed](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/overview)
+* [Visualize](https://grafana.com/orgs/azuremonitorteam/dashboards) the health of every Microsoft Service consumed
+* Monitor the health of my [mission critical](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/well-architected/operational-excellence/observability) workloads for deep insights. [Module.](https://learn.microsoft.com/training/modules/design-health-model-mission-critical-workload/)
+* Monitor my [specialized workloads](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/landing-zones/landing-zone-deploy#application) (Teams + Azure, Power Platform + Azure)
+
+## Learn about Monitoring
+---
+{{< figure src="../img/datasources-azmon.png" >}}
+
+Begin your journey monitoring by reviewing the following reference documentation:
+
+* [Getting started with Azure Monitor](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/getting-started#getting-started-workflow)
+* [Collect the right monitoring data](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/manage/monitor/data-collection)
+* [Azure Monitor data sources and data collection methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/data-sources)
+* [Data collection rules (DCRs) in Azure Monitor](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/data-collection-rule-overviewn)
+* [Diagnostic Setting in Azure Monitor](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/essentials/diagnostic-settings)
+
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