[{"author":"craigshoemaker","date":"2026-09-25T21:57:20+00:00","message":"[SRE Agent] Improve the evaluation experience for new customers (#320216)\n\n* [SRE Agent] Rework evaluate.md as a new-user entry point\n\nThe Evaluate article is the first node under Get started, but it opened on\nbilling mechanics that assumed the reader already knew the product, the\npricing model, and the vocabulary. This revision restructures the page around\nthe go/no-go decision a first-time reader is actually making.\n\nChanges:\n\n- Add a product orientation opening. Two sentences on what the agent does,\n  with links to the overview and run modes, so the trial offer has a subject\n  before any charge is mentioned.\n- Add \"How Azure SRE Agent charges\". Defines Azure Agent Units, always-on,\n  and active usage once each at first use, in a two-row table that contrasts\n  the fixed and variable components and states what the trial waives. Adds\n  the load-bearing concept that an agent bills because it exists, and that\n  deletion is the only off switch. Magnitudes only; pricing-billing.md keeps\n  ownership of rates and AAU math.\n- Rename the trial table to \"What the trial includes\" and add a\n  self-qualification row. Align the agent-count wording with the legally\n  reviewed \"per account\" phrasing instead of the conflicting \"per customer\".\n  Replace \"consumption charges\" with the now-defined \"active usage\".\n- Add \"Before you start\", a short qualification summary covering\n  subscription, region availability and the unregistered-subscription\n  signal, the create-agent role requirement, model provider availability,\n  and the fact that no trial enrollment step exists. Qualification only;\n  create-and-set-up.md keeps the full prerequisite list.\n- Replace the \"Get started\" setup walkthrough and \"Top use cases\" with\n  \"What to try during your evaluation\". Cuts the duplicated connector\n  instructions down to one handoff link, adds a minimum-viable evaluation\n  path (one agent, one service, one known problem), and reorders the use\n  cases as a prioritized list.\n- Expand \"When the trial ends\" with the automatic day-31 transition, the\n  per-agent window, and the explicit delete-to-stop-charges instruction with\n  the stop-versus-delete distinction.\n- Add a \"Not ready to create an agent yet?\" exit path for readers who need\n  overview, pricing, security, or region background first. This replaces the\n  single-link Related content section it duplicated.\n- Correct ms.topic from reference to concept-article for a Get started entry\n  node, and refresh ms.date.\n\nTerms and conditions is byte-identical to the legally reviewed version\n(SHA256 F10D4EBE36E486C9AAF9D3365FC7D681AB320A8B008C66B7342115722B9B19B5\nbefore and after).\n\nUnresolved billing and UI facts are flagged in place with non-rendering HTML\ncomments rather than guessed: the eligibility unit and snapshot date, whether\ndeleted agents count permanently, the scope of the no-feature-limitations\nclaim, and the trial banner location.\n\nAll relative links and heading anchors were verified against the article's\nown directory. No other file is touched.\n\nCo-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>\nCopilot-Session: 92bf1425-8f57-4c2d-8ac1-c132675c479d\n\n* [SRE Agent] Annotate unresolved evaluate trial claims\n\nAdd actionable, non-rendering evidence comments for offer eligibility, snapshot scope, deleted-agent accounting, per-agent timing, automatic enrollment, trial feature parity, and the deletion UI label.\n\nAlso mark plan acceptance gaps for first-use cost terminology, article-only month-one arithmetic, and the remaining setup walkthrough. Remove the now-source-confirmed banner comment. Rendered prose and the legally reviewed terms block remain unchanged.\n\nCo-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>\n\nCopilot-Session: 92bf1425-8f57-4c2d-8ac1-c132675c479d\n\n* [SRE Agent] Resolve SME findings in the evaluate article\n\nRework the rendered prose so every reader-facing claim is traceable to\npublished product docs or to the legally reviewed offer terms, and so the\npage stops promising mechanics that no available source establishes.\n\nFindings resolved:\n\n- Run-mode contradiction. The opening no longer links run-modes.md, which\n  contradicts runtime mode semantics. The sentence now names the two controls\n  an evaluator actually sets - the permissions they grant and the approval\n  settings they choose - and links permissions.md, which documents the Reader\n  and Privileged levels chosen at agent creation. The run-modes.md dependency\n  defect remains open with its owner, but this page no longer depends on it.\n\n- Always-on defined at first use. The second sentence of the article now\n  defines the always-on charge inline as the fixed hourly charge every agent\n  accrues for as long as it exists, before the charge table restates it.\n\n- Cost decision usefulness without invented arithmetic. The active usage\n  paragraph now carries published AAU magnitudes from the pricing article's\n  task table (roughly 1-4 AAUs for a quick question, 12-35 for an automated\n  incident investigation, 30-87 for a full diagnose-and-fix run, across the\n  published models), tells the reader to total the runs they plan, and hands\n  off to the Azure SRE Agent pricing page for the regional price. It also\n  states the ceiling mechanism: a monthly AAU allocation set in\n  Settings > Agent consumption, minimum 500 AAUs, after which the agent stops\n  responding until the next month. No currency figure is invented.\n\n- Unsupported offer mechanics removed. The trial table now states only what\n  the offer terms state: always-on waived during trial access, customers new\n  to Azure SRE Agent, up to three agents per account, up to 30 days, active\n  usage still charged, and automatic transition to standard pricing unless the\n  agent is deleted first. The fixed Aug 25, 2026 snapshot date, the historical\n  eligibility self-check, the deleted-agents-count claim, the per-agent 30-day\n  window, the Day-31 calculation, the automatic-enrollment claim, and the\n  absolute no-feature-limitations claim are all gone. The limitations row now\n  says what is true and checkable - the terms describe billing, not feature\n  gating - plus the abuse and suspension clause the terms do state.\n\n- Setup walkthrough removed. \"What to try during your evaluation\" now scopes\n  the evaluation (one agent, one known service, one known problem) and hands\n  off once to create-and-set-up.md. No connector instruction remains.\n\n- Collaboration destinations narrowed. \"Close the loop\" no longer claims\n  ServiceNow incident updates through a connectors anchor that documents only\n  Teams and Outlook. It now names GitHub issues, Azure DevOps work items,\n  Teams, and email, and links execute-mitigations.md, which documents those\n  response paths.\n\n- Deletion UI corrected to the shipped labels: Settings > Basics, then in\n  Delete SRE Agent select Delete.\n\n- Trial-end section rewritten around the terms: standard pricing applies\n  automatically with no second confirmation step, with the delete escape hatch\n  and the stop-versus-delete distinction in the same place. Banner behavior is\n  tied to the trial period rather than to an unverified Day 31.\n\nRetained comments, all non-rendering and owner-addressed: eligibility rule and\nscope (Product/Commerce), meaning of account and whether deletion frees a slot\n(Product/Commerce/Control Plane), derivation of the trial end date and whether\nthe window is per agent or per account (Control Plane/Billing), how trial\naccess is granted (Product/Control Plane), trial entitlement matrix if a\npositive no-limitations claim is wanted (Product), and a month-one currency\nfigure or worked currency example (Pricing).\n\nTerms and conditions is byte-identical to the legally reviewed version\n(SHA256 97E47F875E3E9AB8A85D2FEA1276A0FFD3C42AE684E2F3098E1C1D0AD52C67F1\nbefore and after). All relative links and heading anchors were revalidated\nagainst the target files. No other file is touched.\n\nCo-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>\nCopilot-Session: 92bf1425-8f57-4c2d-8ac1-c132675c479d\n\n* [SRE Agent] Finalize evaluate article with editorial pass\n\nFinal copyedit of articles/sre-agent/evaluate.md for a first-time reader\nmaking a go/no-go evaluation decision. Prose, terminology, and scanability\nonly; no technical claims were changed, and every unresolved item stays in a\nnon-rendering comment beside the claim it qualifies.\n\nEditorial changes:\n- Split the intro sentence pile-up so the permission and approval boundary\n  reads as its own statement, and clarified that the agent investigates with\n  all connected context in one place.\n- Used the approved short form \"SRE Agent\" in the charges section to stop the\n  product name repeating directly under its own heading, and dropped the serial\n  comma from the two-item bill description.\n- Replaced the \"the concept that matters most\" framing with the plain claim\n  that an agent costs money because it exists.\n- Converted the three inline AAU task estimates into a scannable Task/Example/\n  Typical cost table so a budget owner can size an evaluation without parsing a\n  sentence, and stated that ranges vary by model provider.\n- Named the spending cap as a monthly active usage allocation, matching the\n  active-flow limit documented in pricing-billing.md, and split the run-on into\n  separate sentences.\n- Removed colon splices joining independent clauses in the evaluation lead-in\n  and in both trial-end paragraphs.\n- Cut the duplicate \"health checks\" clause and the \"ensure the stability of\n  your systems\" filler from the operational risks item.\n- Replaced the internally named \"query trigger\" and the \"threshold-based log\n  query crosses its threshold\" repetition with a behavior description, and\n  flagged the missing public label in a comment.\n- Tightened the trial enrollment row, the prerequisites lead-in, and the offer\n  table lead-in.\n\nComment hygiene:\n- De-duplicated the trial-window question so the table row asks for the\n  per-agent versus per-account rule and the trial-end section asks how the end\n  date is derived.\n- Kept the eligibility row as the single owner of the \"what does account mean\"\n  question and reduced the agent-limit comment to slot accounting only.\n- Removed source-provenance phrasing from the agent-limit comment.\n- Reflowed the pricing evidence-gap comment; the request is unchanged.\n\nValidation:\n- Terms and conditions block is byte-identical to the legally reviewed version\n  in a6cb2e5d06d3 (829 characters, exact match).\n- All 18 relative links and anchors resolve, including the same-page terms\n  anchor; AAU figures still match pricing-billing.md.\n- No Output Blocklist terms, TODO markers, provenance narration, or internal\n  context in rendered prose; all 8 HTML comments are well formed and\n  non-rendering.\n- Branch scope is a single file: articles/sre-agent/evaluate.md.\n\nCo-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>\nCopilot-Session: 92bf1425-8f57-4c2d-8ac1-c132675c479d\n\n* [SRE Agent] Apply author feedback to the evaluate article\n\nResolve the outstanding publication blockers in evaluate.md from direct\nauthor guidance and restore the pre-revision evaluation scenarios.\n\n- Fold the approved consumption-charge sentence into the intro paragraph.\n- Remove the \"Typical cost\" AAU estimate table, its framing sentences, and\n  the \"To size an evaluation\" paragraph; static estimates go stale, so point\n  readers to the pricing calculator and Pricing and billing instead. Drop the\n  Pricing evidence-gap comment that qualified the removed text.\n- Resolve the eligibility blocker: customers know whether they are new to the\n  service, so no additional eligibility-check mechanism is documented.\n- Resolve the deleted-slot blocker: the offer covers three spots total and\n  deleted agents still count, so deleting doesn't free a spot.\n- Resolve the billing-window blocker: the trial period begins the day the\n  first Azure SRE Agent is created and concludes 30 days after, stated\n  consistently in the offer table and the trial-end section.\n- Resolve the feature-matrix blocker: no features are limited during the\n  trial, so the limitations answer states that directly.\n- Remove the \"Trial enrollment\" row and its blocker comment.\n- Rewrite the evaluation-scope paragraph with the approved wording.\n- Restore the original wording and order of the evaluation scenarios list.\n- Clarify that the fixed charge begins if the agent still exists after 30 days.\n- Remove the \"Not ready to create an agent yet?\" section.\n- Update ms.date to 09/03/2026.\n\nThe Terms and conditions block is unchanged and byte-identical to\nupstream/main. 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the source table doesn't read as\n  required work.\n- Rebuild \"What each source adds\" as a decision table keyed to the\n  question each source lets the agent answer, with per-source access\n  requirements in their own column.\n- Add conditional connection guidance branched by symptom instead of a\n  single flat order, and flag Azure resources and incidents as the\n  connections most likely to need someone else's approval.\n- Add a prerequisites section covering agent role, Azure role for\n  resource scopes, per-source access, and existing alert rules.\n- Name the telemetry providers and their authentication model, and link\n  the telemetry connector article for the full list.\n- Locate the setup entry point on the Operations Hub Overview status bar\n  and describe connected card state.\n- De-emphasize the progress bar and state what it measures.\n- Add a verification section covering card state plus a per-source\n  prompt that proves the agent can reach the new source.\n- State the behavior change from connecting an incident platform and the\n  metered-usage implication of more connected context.\n- Update Related content and refresh ms.date.\n\nThree unresolved claims carry non-rendering HTML comments for SME\nconfirmation: the setup-page Logs provider set, the role required for\ntelemetry and incident connectors, and the progress denominator.\n\nCo-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>\nCopilot-Session: 92bf1425-8f57-4c2d-8ac1-c132675c479d\n\n* Add SME verification comments to complete setup\n\nCo-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>\n\nCopilot-Session: 92bf1425-8f57-4c2d-8ac1-c132675c479d\n\n* Resolve SME findings in complete setup\n\nNarrow the additive-and-reversible claim to the sources that accumulate,\nstate the one-active incident platform behavior, add provider visibility\nand per-role access detail, scope the alert-rule prerequisite by platform,\nexplain the progress bar denominator, paraphrase 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