Azure Log Analytics
Azure Log Analytics, being one of the most important components of Azure Monitor, allows you to run queries against logs stored in Azure Monitor’s datastore. While it’s not an independent service, it’s still worth diving deeper into, as many services and features allow you to integrate logs with this component. Azure Log Analytics is also one of the key elements of monitoring Azure infrastructure as it centralizes queries, alerts, and data.
In this chapter, we’ll extend your knowledge of Log Analytics by discussing details of workspaces, queries, and results visualization. The information contained in the upcoming sections will help you elevate your monitoring solutions in Azure so they provide more detailed, useful information.
In this chapter, we’ll cover a couple of different topics, including the following:
- Getting started – an overview of Azure Log Analytics
- Using workspaces
- Querying data
- Visualizing...