Getting started – an overview of Azure Log Analytics
As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, Azure Log Analytics is a tool that you can use to run queries against data stored in Azure Monitor. While it’s not the only thing that it provides, you can consider its ability to query data as its main use case. Log Analytics is a service that you don’t deploy personally – however, there are additional components, such as workspaces that may be managed by you (we’ll talk about them in the next section of this chapter named Using workspaces). Let’s start by discussing both basic and more advanced topics related to Log Analytics.
Use cases for Azure Log Analytics
In general, when you collect logs using Azure Monitor, they’re saved inside the internal datastore of the Azure Monitor service and can be used when needed. These logs can be leveraged in various scenarios – for instance, when creating an alert rule, you may query...