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        "content_html": "<h2>Source facts</h2>\n<p>Microsoft describes QueueMessageCount as a storage-account-wide queue message metric refreshed daily. For dynamic workload adjustments, the guide recommends querying each queue’s approximate message count. <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues/queues-storage-monitoring-scenarios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Learn</a></p>\n<h2>Applicability</h2>\n<p>This applies when an operations team is choosing a backlog observation for Azure Queue Storage and needs to decide whether a worker workload should be adjusted.</p>\n<h2>DSE recommendation</h2>\n<p>DSE recommends documenting the decision’s required freshness and the specific queue before selecting a metric. Keep account-level reporting distinct from the per-queue observations used for responsive action. Record that the direct count is approximate and choose an observation interval appropriate to the workload. Ask the application owner to define a bounded response and the conditions for stopping or reversing it, rather than making an unbounded change from a single count.</p>\n<h2>Verification</h2>\n<p>Capture the observation time, queue identity, and approximate count alongside worker activity during a controlled test. Compare the proposed action with the workload’s agreed completion and stability criteria. Recheck after the action and retain the resulting evidence. Do not describe a daily aggregate as the instantaneous backlog of a particular queue or report improved processing without observing the workload result.</p>\n<h2>Official references</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues/queues-storage-monitoring-scenarios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft: Best practices for monitoring Azure Queue Storage | Microsoft Learn</a></li>\n</ul>",
        "content_text": "Source facts\nMicrosoft describes QueueMessageCount as a storage-account-wide queue message metric refreshed daily. For dynamic workload adjustments, the guide recommends querying each queue’s approximate message count. Microsoft Learn\nApplicability\nThis applies when an operations team is choosing a backlog observation for Azure Queue Storage and needs to decide whether a worker workload should be adjusted.\nDSE recommendation\nDSE recommends documenting the decision’s required freshness and the specific queue before selecting a metric. Keep account-level reporting distinct from the per-queue observations used for responsive action. Record that the direct count is approximate and choose an observation interval appropriate to the workload. Ask the application owner to define a bounded response and the conditions for stopping or reversing it, rather than making an unbounded change from a single count.\nVerification\nCapture the observation time, queue identity, and approximate count alongside worker activity during a controlled test. Compare the proposed action with the workload’s agreed completion and stability criteria. Recheck after the action and retain the resulting evidence. Do not describe a daily aggregate as the instantaneous backlog of a particular queue or report improved processing without observing the workload result.\nOfficial references\n\nMicrosoft: Best practices for monitoring Azure Queue Storage | Microsoft Learn",
        "content_markdown": "## Source facts\n\nMicrosoft describes QueueMessageCount as a storage-account-wide queue message metric refreshed daily. For dynamic workload adjustments, the guide recommends querying each queue’s approximate message count. [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues/queues-storage-monitoring-scenarios)\n\n## Applicability\n\nThis applies when an operations team is choosing a backlog observation for Azure Queue Storage and needs to decide whether a worker workload should be adjusted.\n\n## DSE recommendation\n\nDSE recommends documenting the decision’s required freshness and the specific queue before selecting a metric. Keep account-level reporting distinct from the per-queue observations used for responsive action. Record that the direct count is approximate and choose an observation interval appropriate to the workload. Ask the application owner to define a bounded response and the conditions for stopping or reversing it, rather than making an unbounded change from a single count.\n\n## Verification\n\nCapture the observation time, queue identity, and approximate count alongside worker activity during a controlled test. Compare the proposed action with the workload’s agreed completion and stability criteria. Recheck after the action and retain the resulting evidence. Do not describe a daily aggregate as the instantaneous backlog of a particular queue or report improved processing without observing the workload result.\n\n## Official references\n\n- [Microsoft: Best practices for monitoring Azure Queue Storage | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues/queues-storage-monitoring-scenarios)"
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