Agents Administration - Tests
 

Determining the Log Analytics Workspace Name

Typically, the Activity log is sent to a Log Analytics Workspace to:

  • Correlate Activity log data with other monitoring data collected by Azure Monitor.

  • Consolidate log entries from multiple Azure subscriptions and tenants into one location for analysis together.

  • Use log queries to perform complex analysis and gain deep insights on Activity Log entries.

  • Use log alerts with Activity entries allowing for more complex alerting logic.

  • Store Activity log entries for longer than the Activity Log retention period.

To determine the names of the workspaces, do the following:

  1. Login to the Microsoft Azure Portal and select the Activity log option from Azure services page.

  2. Activity log page will then appear listing the log entries. Next, click on the Diagnostic settings button at the top of this page.

  3. Diagnostic settings page will then appear. From the Subscription drop-down on this page, select the Azure subscription being monitored currently. The diagnostic settings that pre-exist for the chosen subscription will then appear. If any of the existing diagnostic settings have already been configured with Log Analytics Workspaces, then then the Log Analytics workspace column will display these workspace names. You can configure the LOG ANALYTICS WORKSPACE NAME parameter of this test with any of these workspace names. If required, you can even configure this parameter with two/more workspaces as a comma-separated list.