ARM Authoring Azure Log Analytics Azure Monitor

ARM – Connect Activity Logs From Multiple Subscriptions As Log Analytics Workspace Data Source

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Recently I had a requirement to automatically configure Activity Logs from multiple subscriptions to send their logs to a Log Analytics workspace. I am talking about this setting here…

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There are many ways how to achieve this goal. If you are into PowerShell you could use this cmdlet New-AzureRMOperationalInsightsAzureActivityLogDataSource  (I like the name Smile), this would work perfectly. Another way could be to use the REST API to create or update the Log Analytics data sources. In my case I had the needed for an ARM template which I could pass a collection of subscription ids to it and then it would connect those subscriptions to a workspace…

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If the workspace does not exist, it will be created. It is good to know, that we could send the Activity Logs from the subscriptions to multiple workspaces. Just execute the template and provide each time a new workspace name. This might be useful in certain scenarios.

This is a short post, but I think others have the same requirement and therefore it may help!

Find the ARM template here.

2 Replies to “ARM – Connect Activity Logs From Multiple Subscriptions As Log Analytics Workspace Data Source

  1. Hi Stefan,
    It was a good article.
    Can I get your contact mail id to reach you?

    Thanks
    Krithika

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