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Configure Data Collection for Azure Monitor

Learn how to collect various types of monitoring data from Azure resources, including resource logs and metrics, activity logs, and virtual machine guest logs.

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 30m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 02, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Deploy a Log Analytics Workspace

  2. Challenge

    Collect Platform Logs

    • Collect blob service resource logs from the storage account
    • Simulate collecting activity logs from the subscription

  3. Challenge

    Collect Virtual Machine Logs

    • Create a Data Collection Rule to collect Critical, Error and Warning System Windows Event Logs from the virtual machine.

  4. Challenge

    Review the Results

    • Confirm the AzureMonitorWindowsAgent (Microsoft.Azure.Monitor.AzureMonitorWindowsAgent) is installed on the virtual machine

    • Review the Log Analytics workspace tables and ensure that a StorageBlobLogs and Heartbeat table have been created

      Note: It might take a few minutes for all the tables to be created. If the StorageBlobLogs table is not created, you can perform a data plane operation like creating a blob container to trigger a resource log entry to be created.

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