At present, our prospects set up and handle their Azure digital networks at scale. As their variety of community sources grows, the query of how you can keep connectivity and safety amongst their scale of sources arises. That is the place Microsoft Azure Digital Community Supervisor is available in—your one-stop store for managing the connectivity and safety of your community sources at scale (at present in preview). And when prospects use Azure Digital Community Supervisor, additionally they want visibility into what sort of adjustments have been made in order that they’ll audit these occasions, analyze these adjustments over time, and debug points alongside the best way. This functionality is now a actuality—Azure Digital Community Supervisor occasion logging is now in preview.
Azure Digital Community Supervisor (AVNM) makes use of Azure Monitor for telemetry assortment and evaluation like many different Azure providers. AVNM now supplies occasion logs you can work together with by way of Azure Monitor’s Log Analytics instrument within the Azure Portal, in addition to by way of a storage account. You may as well ship these logs to an occasion hub or associate resolution.
With this preview announcement, Azure Digital Community Supervisor will present a log class for community group membership change. Within the context of AVNM, community teams are outlined by the person to include digital networks. The membership of a community group might be manually offered (resembling by deciding on VNetA, VNetB, and VNetC to be part of this community group) in addition to conditionally set by way of Azure Coverage (resembling by defining that any digital community inside a sure subscription that incorporates some string in its identify might be added to this community group). The community group membership change log class tracks when a selected digital community is added to or faraway from a community group. This can be utilized to trace community group membership adjustments over time, to seize a snapshot of a selected digital community’s community group membership, and extra.
What attributes are a part of this occasion log class?
This community group membership change class emits one log per community group membership change. So, when a digital community is added to or faraway from a community group, a log is emitted correlating to that single addition or elimination for that specific digital community. In case you’re taking a look at one in all these logs out of your storage account, you’ll see a number of attributes:
| Attribute | Description |
| time | Datetime when the occasion was logged. |
| resourceId | Useful resource ID of the community supervisor. |
| location | Location of the digital community useful resource. |
| operationName | Operation that resulted within the digital community being added or eliminated. All the time the “Microsoft.Community/virtualNetworks/networkGroupMembership/write” operation. |
| class | Class of this log. All the time “NetworkGroupMembershipChange.” |
| resultType | Signifies profitable or failed operation. |
| correlationId | GUID that may assist relate or debug logs. |
| degree | All the time “Data.” |
| properties | Assortment of properties of the log. |
Throughout the properties attribute are a number of nested attributes:
| properties attribute | Description |
| Message | Fundamental success or failure message. |
| MembershipId | Default membership ID of the digital community. |
| GroupMemberships | Assortment of what community teams the digital community belongs to. There could also be a number of “NetworkGroupId” and “Sources” listed inside this property since a digital community can belong to a number of community teams concurrently. |
| MemberResourceId | Useful resource ID of the digital community that was added to or faraway from a community group. |
Throughout the GroupMemberships attribute are a number of nested attributes:
| GroupMemberships attribute | Description |
| NetworkGroupId | ID of a community group the digital community belongs to. |
| Sources |
Assortment of how the digital community is a member of the community group.
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Throughout the Sources attribute are a number of nested attributes:
| Sources attribute | Description |
| Sort | Denotes whether or not the digital community was added manually (“StaticMembership”) or conditionally through Azure Coverage (“Coverage”). |
| StaticMemberId | If the “Sort” worth is “StaticMembership,” this property will seem. |
| PolicyAssignmentId | If the “Sort” worth is “Coverage,” this property will seem. ID of the Azure Coverage project that associates the Azure Coverage definition to the community group. |
| PolicyDefinitionId | If the “Sort” worth is “Coverage,” this property will seem. ID of the Azure Coverage definition that incorporates the situations for the community group’s membership. |
How do I get began?
Step one you’ll must take is to arrange your Log Analytics workspace or your storage account, relying on the way you need to devour these occasion logs. It is best to observe that in the event you’re utilizing a storage account or occasion hub, it is going to must be in the identical area of the community supervisor you’re accessing logs from. In case you’re utilizing a Log Analytics workspace, it may be in any area. The community supervisor you’re accessing the logs of received’t must belong to the identical subscription as your Log Analytics workspace or storage account, however permissions could prohibit your skill to entry logs cross-subscription.
Be aware that at the least one digital community should be added or faraway from a community group so as to generate logs. A log will generate for this occasion a pair minutes later.
Accessing Azure Digital Community Supervisor’s occasion logs with Log Analytics
Step one is to navigate to your required community supervisor and choose the Diagnostic settings blade beneath the Monitoring part. Then you possibly can choose Add diagnostic setting and choose the choice to ship the logs to your Log Analytics workspace.
Then you possibly can navigate to your Log Analytics workspace immediately by way of your community supervisor by deciding on the Logs blade beneath the Monitoring part.
Alternatively, you too can navigate to your Log Analytics workspace within the Azure Portal and choose the Logs blade.
From both place, you possibly can run your individual queries in your community supervisor’s emitted logs for community group membership adjustments, or you too can run our preloaded queries. Our preloaded queries can fetch the newest community group membership adjustments and failed community group membership adjustments.
Accessing Azure Digital Community Supervisor’s occasion logs with a storage account
Step one is to once more navigate to your required community supervisor and choose the Diagnostic settings blade beneath the Monitoring part. Then you possibly can choose Add diagnostic setting and choose the choice to archive the logs to your storage account.
Then you possibly can navigate to your storage account and choose the Storage browser blade.
Choose Blob containers. A blob container might be robotically generated as soon as community group membership adjustments happen.
Navigate down the blob container’s file path till you attain a JSON file for the datetime specified by that file path.
Obtain the JSON file to view the uncooked logs for the file path’s datetime.
Be taught extra about Azure Digital Community Supervisor occasion logging
In just some clicks, you’ve arrange your community supervisor to route occasion logs to your Log Analytics workspace or your storage account. Now, you may get visibility into every incidence of a digital community coming into or leaving a community group. Extra log classes are within the works, and within the meantime, be at liberty to take a look at our public documentation for extra on Azure Digital Community Supervisor.
