Understanding logs in Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor can collect data from different services in different formats. Each service can publish data as a metric, log, event, or change. Depending on the type of published data, a different kind of log is leveraged to present aggregated results. In this section, we’ll discuss the differences between different types of logs and what kind of data can be found inside them. We’ll start by learning about platform logs.

Platform logs

Platform logs is a generic name for more detailed logs generated by Azure services. Depending on the considered layer (the place where the log is generated), we can talk about the following platform logs:

• Resource logs (generated at the resource level)
• Activity logs (generated at the subscription level)
• Microsoft Entra ID logs (generated at the tenant level)

If you look closely at the described platform logs, you’ll see that platform logs are linked to similar scopes...