Introduction to Azure Monitor Log Analytics
Azure Monitor is the name of a suite of solutions built within the Azure platform to collect logs and metrics, with that information then being used to create insights, visualizations, and automated responses. Log Analytics is one of the main services created to analyze the logs gathered. The platform supports near real-time scenarios, is automatically scaled, and is available to multiple services across Azure (including Azure Sentinel). Using a version of the Kusto Query Language (KQL), the query language used to obtain information from logs, complex information can be queried quickly and the queries are saved for future use. In this book, we will refer to this service simply as Log Analytics.
In order to create a Log Analytics workspace, you must first have an Azure subscription. Each subscription is based on a specific geographic location that ties the data storage to that region. The region selection is decided based on where you want...