Monitor Office 365 with IFTTT

The Internet service IFTTT (IF This Then That) https://ifttt.com can be used for all kinds of incident based actions, from weather changes over facebook updates to stock changes. A very powerful function is its ability to monitor RSS feeds, such as those published for Office 365.

I’m describing two different monitors below but others can of course be made. The only limitation is your creativity and, well, published RSS feeds. The monitors described here will require that you create an IFTTT account.

IFTTT-RSS

 

Office 365 IP Addresses

As you probably know, the IP address scopes for Office 365 change frequently, and if your firewall rules depend on known IP addresses in Office 365 it’s very important that you update those in a timely manner. To get a notification in your inbox (or whereever IFTTT supports) which, for me, works better that just a RSS subscription, create the following recipe.

Create trigger:

Create action

  • That: Email
  • Action: Send me an email
  • Subject: Office 365 IP address change
  • Body: Leave the default

Save recipe

 

Office 365 Service Health Notifications

Detailed descriptions of Office 365 service events can be found in the dashboard on your Office 365 tenant but if you want to be notified whenever there’s a new entry, create the following recipe.

Create trigger:

Create action

  • That: Email
  • Action: Send me an email (multiple addresses or text message as option)
  • Subject: Office 365 Service Health Notification
  • Body: Leave the default

Save recipe

Hope you find this useful… :)