Microsoft provides dashboard to check the azure services running status across the geographic regions which help to know which service is running and which one is down. Click on the following button to check the azure services health status

Check Azure Services Status

Azure status dashboard provides the following benefits

• Automatic screen refresh based on selected time duration
• Allows to choose how frequently refresh the dashboard
• Allows to choose the specific datacenter location
• Shows the legends to describe the status such as good, Information, warning and  critical etc.
• Link to see the past outrage issues with details explanation 
• Link to set the custom alert from portal for specific service which you are using in the application

There are lots of good stuffs are given, please visit personally using the above given link and explorer it.