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Diagnostic Themes

Every signal a data feed or a health topic produces is filed under one theme, the kind of problem it belongs to. Start from a theme when you know the symptom and not yet the source.

ThemeWhat you will findSignals
Crashes and hangsA service, process or the OS restarted, hung or crashed unexpectedly.32
Storage and filesystemA disk, volume or share is unreadable, full, slow or unprotected.23
Backup and VSSA backup job or the shadow-copy service behind it failed or degraded.12
Patching and servicingWindows Update or the servicing stack failed to scan, download or install a patch.42
Security and identityAn account, credential, permission or audit setting changed in a way worth checking.100
NetworkA network adapter, link or remote-access path failed or degraded.18
Performance and capacityCPU, memory, disk or queue pressure crossed a level that slows workloads.18
Configuration driftA host setting, inventory value or scheduled task changed outside the expected configuration.30