Azure IoT Operations Skill
This skill provides expert guidance for Azure IoT Operations. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
How to Use This Skill
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
- Preferred: Use
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fetch_webpagewith query stringfrom=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.
Category Index
| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L37-L44 | Diagnosing and fixing Azure IoT Operations issues: WASM module debugging, private network connectivity, known component bugs, and deployment/runtime failures. |
| Best Practices | L45-L50 | Guidance on testing and validating Azure IoT Operations WASM modules, and designing resilient, highly available edge applications using the Azure MQTT broker. |
| Decision Making | L51-L56 | Guidance on choosing between data flows vs data flow graphs in Azure IoT Operations and sizing production deployments with concrete resource and capacity examples. |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L57-L61 | Designing IoT data processing pipelines with data flow graphs and applying Azure IoT Operations in layered/segmented industrial network topologies and architectures. |
| Limits & Quotas | L62-L66 | Details on MQTT broker feature support, protocol limits, and control capabilities in Azure IoT Operations, including which MQTT functions and controls are available or restricted. |
| Security | L67-L84 | Securing Azure IoT Operations: TLS/cert management, OPC UA trust, MQTT authz/authn, private networking, secrets/Key Vault, RBAC roles, and image validation. |
| Configuration | L85-L127 | Configuring Azure IoT Operations data flows, endpoints, routing, transforms, persistence, MQTT broker settings, device/asset models, and observability/metrics for monitoring and tuning. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L128-L146 | Patterns and code for integrating devices and cameras, building Akri/REST/WASM connectors and transforms, using state store, ONNX, schemas, and expression/mapping languages in IoT data flows |
| Deployment | L147-L155 | Deploying, cloning, upgrading, and securing Azure IoT Operations in production (incl. private networks), plus deploying observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and WASM/graph workloads. |
Troubleshooting
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Debug Azure IoT WASM modules in VS Code | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/develop-edge-apps/howto-debug-wasm-modules |
| Troubleshoot private connectivity in Azure IoT Operations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/manage-layered-network/howto-troubleshoot-private-connectivity |
| Resolve known issues in Azure IoT Operations components | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/troubleshoot/known-issues |
| Troubleshoot Azure IoT Operations deployments and runtime | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/troubleshoot/troubleshoot |
Best Practices
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Test Azure IoT Operations WASM modules effectively | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/develop-edge-apps/howto-test-wasm-modules |
| Design highly available edge apps with Azure MQTT broker | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/develop-edge-apps/overview-edge-apps |
Decision Making
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Choose between data flows and data flow graphs in Azure IoT Operations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/connect-to-cloud/overview-dataflow-comparison |
| Use Azure IoT Operations production deployment sizing examples | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/deploy-iot-ops/concept-production-examples |
Architecture & Design Patterns
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Design processing pipelines with Azure IoT Operations data flow graphs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/connect-to-cloud/concept-dataflow-graphs |
Limits & Quotas
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Review MQTT feature and control support in broker | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/reference/mqtt-support |
Security
Configuration
Integrations & Coding Patterns
Deployment
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Deploy Azure IoT Operations observability with Prometheus and Grafana | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/configure-observability-monitoring/howto-configure-observability |
| Clone Azure IoT Operations instances with Azure CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/deploy-iot-ops/howto-clone-instance |
| Deploy Azure IoT Operations securely to production clusters | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/deploy-iot-ops/howto-deploy-iot-operations |
| Upgrade Azure IoT Operations deployments via portal or CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/deploy-iot-ops/howto-upgrade |
| Deploy WASM modules and graph definitions in Azure IoT | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/develop-edge-apps/howto-deploy-wasm-graph-definitions |
| Deploy Azure IoT Operations in layered private networks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-operations/end-to-end-tutorials/tutorial-layered-network-private-connectivity |