Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

Monitoring and automating infrastructure operations

When a user initiates an operation on the Azure Portal, it is given with a RequestId to keep track of its status, in case it's needed. In the Managing the Storage service recipe, we saw how to use that RequestId to check the status of a request, but we might need to ask Azure for a list of every operation in a specific timeframe.

Going back to the ManagementClient class, which manages infrastructure services, we can use the ListOperations() method to obtain a complete list of the operation history against the platform; this is initiated by us or someone else who has the rights to the subscription.

For each operation, we can track:

• The operation name
• Who made it (the e-mail address) and from where ...