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Challenge 1: Activity Log & Service Health

Activity Logs are everything happening to your resources on the API level. The Activity log is a platform log in Azure that provides insights into subscription-level events. This includes information such as when a resource is modified or when a virtual machine is started.

Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance so you can take action to mitigate downtime. It is composed of Azure status, the Service health service, and Resource Health.

Main Objectives:

  • Understand the Activity Log, connect it to your LA workspace and configure an alert to get notified if a VM has been turned off.
  • Understand Service Health and search the log for recent events

Tasks to finish the Challenge

  1. Activity Log integration with Log Analytics
  • Send your Azure Activity Log to your Log Analytics workspace
  1. Activity Log alerts
  • Start / Stop a VM
  • Check the Activity Logs to see the events of starting or stopping a VM
  • Create an Alert for the VM to be notified if the VM has been stopped
  • Stop the VM, and see if you got the alert
  1. Service Health
  • Pin the Service issues map to your dashboard
  • Perform a custom log query on your Activity Logs to see if there's any recent entries regarding Resource Health.

Bonus question/task:

  • Will the Activity Log Alert get fired if the VM was turned off from the OS? Or if the VM was not available? Why/why not?
  • Does sending the Activity Log to your Log Analytics workspace cause costs?

Definition of Done:

  • You have successfully integrated Azure Activity Log with your LAW
  • Show the Alerts which got fired and explain what you have done.

Helpful links:

The Solution

Are you sure? finished trying? ;-) Challenge 1: The solution