Azure now sends notifications, when external services you use slow down

Seems like a cool feature. Just got an email for 2 yo small service I host there. Never did any explicit telemetry in the code.

This is what I received:

What was detected: Degradation in Dependency duration for "http://hosthidden.com/Service.svc" WCF Service calls

When did this happen: November 4, 2018 0:00 UTC

What went wrong: 1.51 sec dependency duration, 89% slower than normal duration

Normal duration over 7 days: 0.8 sec

Things to note: 17% of all requests were affected.