Azure Monitor Logs
Azure Monitor Logs provides a powerful and flexible solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand performance, diagnose issues, and secure your applications and infrastructure.
Key Features and Capabilities
- Log Data Collection: Collect logs from Azure resources, virtual machines, containers, applications, and more.
- Powerful Querying: Use the Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform ad-hoc queries, analyze trends, and identify patterns in your log data.
- Visualization: Create dashboards and charts to visualize log data and gain insights into your systems.
- Alerting: Set up alerts based on log query results to be notified of critical events or performance degradations.
- Integration: Integrate with other Azure services and third-party tools for a comprehensive monitoring solution.
Getting Started with Log Analytics
Learn how to set up a Log Analytics workspace, configure data collection, and start querying your logs.
Start your first query | Configure data sourcesCommon Use Cases
- Application Performance Monitoring: Track application errors, request latency, and dependencies.
- Security Incident Analysis: Investigate security events, audit trails, and suspicious activities.
- Infrastructure Health: Monitor the health and performance of virtual machines, networks, and storage.
- Cost Management: Analyze resource usage patterns to optimize costs.
Example KQL Query
This query shows the count of errors in the last 24 hours from a specific application:
Heartbeat
| where TimeGenerated > ago(24h)
| where Computer == "MyServer01"
| summarize count() by Category
For more advanced queries and scenarios, please refer to the official Kusto Query Language documentation.