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Azure Activity Log confusion
All,
This might be obvious, but I have questions regarding Azure Activity Logs. Could I please ask someone to review the following and let me know whether me reasoning is accurate ?
- Azure Activity log events are retained in Azure for 90 days and then deleted by default.
- When I browse the Activity Log tab on a given subscription, I’ll get insight into operation on each Azure resource in that subscription from the management plane.
- When I browse a resource, say Key Vault in that subscription, and view the Activity Log tab from within the resource, I would get events narrowed down to this very specific Key Vault (but I would find the same events for this Key Vault in the Activity Log tab on subscription level).
- The Activity Log events are retained in Azure for 90 days and then deleted by default.
- If I want to store the Activity Log events beyond 90 days, I could export them to a Log Analytics workspace ( Iknow of Storage Account and Event Hub).
- I can export the Activity Log events to a Log Analytics workspace to store the vents beyond the 90 days.
- I can export the Activity Log events from subscription (Activity Log -> Export Activity Logs). If I do so, the exported data will contain ALL the Activity Log events from ALL resources in the given subscription.
- Since there’s a single activity log for each Azure subscription, I would have to perform the step above for each single subscription.
What if I export the Activity Log events from a resource in a subscription, rather than the subscription itself (will it only export events for the given resource)?
Thanks a lot!
- MehulKaushikMicrosoftHello Adam,
Yes, if you chose to send Diagnostic Logs from a specific resource it would limit the data to that resource itself.- adampra86Copper ContributorAre you referring with your answer to “What if I export the Activity Log events from a resource in a subscription, rather than the subscription itself (will it only export events for the given resource)?” Or the resource logs aka Diagnostic Settings on a given resource ?