Configure Data Collection for Azure Monitor

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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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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Deploy a Log Analytics Workspace
Challenge

Collect Platform Logs
- Collect blob service resource logs from the storage account
- Simulate collecting activity logs from the subscription
Challenge

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