Right this moment, our clients set up and handle their Azure digital networks at scale. As their variety of community sources grows, the query of preserve 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 (presently in preview). And when clients use Azure Digital Community Supervisor, additionally they want visibility into what sort of modifications had been made in order that they’ll audit these occasions, analyze these modifications over time, and debug points alongside the way in which. 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 gives occasion logs which you can work together with via Azure Monitor’s Log Analytics software within the Azure Portal, in addition to via a storage account. You can even ship these logs to an occasion hub or companion answer.
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 consumer to comprise digital networks. The membership of a community group might be manually offered (similar to by deciding on VNetA, VNetB, and VNetC to be part of this community group) in addition to conditionally set via Azure Coverage (similar to by defining that any digital community inside a sure subscription that comprises some string in its title can 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 modifications 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 individual digital community. In the event you’re 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. At all times the “Microsoft.Community/virtualNetworks/networkGroupMembership/write” operation. |
| class | Class of this log. At all times “NetworkGroupMembershipChange.” |
| resultType | Signifies profitable or failed operation. |
| correlationId | GUID that may assist relate or debug logs. |
| degree | At all times “Data.” |
| properties | Assortment of properties of the log. |
Inside the properties attribute are a number of nested attributes:
| properties attribute | Description |
| Message | Primary 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. |
Inside 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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Inside the Sources attribute are a number of nested attributes:
| Sources attribute | Description |
| Kind | Denotes whether or not the digital community was added manually (“StaticMembership”) or conditionally by way of Azure Coverage (“Coverage”). |
| StaticMemberId | If the “Kind” worth is “StaticMembership,” this property will seem. |
| PolicyAssignmentId | If the “Kind” 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 “Kind” worth is “Coverage,” this property will seem. ID of the Azure Coverage definition that comprises 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. You need to be aware that if you happen to’re utilizing a storage account or occasion hub, it’ll should be in the identical area of the community supervisor you’re accessing logs from. In the event you’re utilizing a Log Analytics workspace, it may be in any area. The community supervisor you’re accessing the logs of gained’t must belong to the identical subscription as your Log Analytics workspace or storage account, however permissions might prohibit your capacity to entry logs cross-subscription.
Be aware that not less than one digital community should be added or faraway from a community group with a purpose 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 below the Monitoring part. Then you may choose Add diagnostic setting and choose the choice to ship the logs to your Log Analytics workspace.
Then you may navigate to your Log Analytics workspace instantly via your community supervisor by deciding on the Logs blade below 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 may run your personal queries in your community supervisor’s emitted logs for community group membership modifications, or you too can run our preloaded queries. Our preloaded queries can fetch the latest community group membership modifications and failed community group membership modifications.
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 below the Monitoring part. Then you may choose Add diagnostic setting and choose the choice to archive the logs to your storage account.
Then you may navigate to your storage account and choose the Storage browser blade.
Choose Blob containers. A blob container can be mechanically generated as soon as community group membership modifications 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 will get visibility into every prevalence of a digital community coming into or leaving a community group. Extra log classes are within the works, and within the meantime, be happy to take a look at our public documentation for extra on Azure Digital Community Supervisor.
