Implementing Azure Solutions

Azure Logs

Azure collects lots of logs for you by default. There is a central dashboard for viewing logs and events called Monitor. The Monitor is still in preview, but in my opinion it is the best organized place to manage logs and diagnostics.

There are three main categories of logs that are collected. These are under the EXPLORE point in the Azure Monitor.

• Activity log: The activity log keeps track of all actions that are happening on Azure. It logs all activities no matter if they were initiated by users or other resources including resource creation, change of resources and resource deletion. Activity logs can be analyzed using different Azure Services. These include PowerBI, Event Hub or just save them to a storage account to handle ...