Duration
1 day
Overview
Azure Monitor collects log data and stores it in tables. Administrators use Log Analytics in the Azure portal to configure their input data sources and conduct queries for their Azure Monitor logs.
You are in IT Operations at Tailwind Traders. You're responsible for ensuring that the monitoring infrastructure that supports Tailwind Traders Azure workloads is appropriately configured. You need to configure Log Analytics workspaces so that only appropriate people have access to the workspace. You also must configure an appropriate data retention period for the workspace, and ensure that you receive notification if there's any degradation in workspace health.
Learning Objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
- Create a Log Analytics workspace.
- Configure access to a Log Analytics workspace.
- Configure data retention for a Log Analytics workspace.
- Enable health status alerts for Log Analytics workspace.
Prerequisites
Understand the basic functionality of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics workspaces.
Outline
- Create a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure access to Log Analytics workspaces
- Access mode
- Log Analytics RBAC roles
- Log Analytics Reader
- Log Analytics Contributor
- Log Analytics RBAC scopes
- Configure Log Analytics data retention
- Retention and archiving
- Configuring default Log Analytics Workspace retention policy
- Configure retention and archive policies by table
- Configure Log Analytics health status alerts
Summary
Azure Monitor collects log data and stores it in tables. Administrators use Log Analytics in the Azure portal to configure their input data sources and conduct queries for their Azure Monitor logs. In this module you learned how to create a Log analytics workspace, how to configure access to the workspace including the details of the built-in Log Analytics RBAC roles, how to configure data retention for a Log Analytics workspace as well as how to configure Health Status Alerts for a Log Analytics Workspace.
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