Azure Storage accounts often process millions of entities, messages, or blobs. As they are often the backbone of your systems, proper diagnosis and monitoring will be crucial for understanding the issues you are facing. In this section, we will focus on enabling logging features and finding logs, which should be helpful when diagnosing problems in your applications.
To perform this exercise, you will need a Storage account. You can use Azure PowerShell, the Azure portal, or the Azure CLI for that, depending on your expertise and what you are used to. To create an account with the Azure CLI, go to the first section of this chapter, where there are detailed instructions on how to do so. However, remember that the same can be done with Azure PowerShell by using the New-AzureRmStorageAccount cmdlet with the required parameters, listed as follows:
New-AzureRmStorageAccount -Location <location> -Name ...
