How to find the user logging in the VM to use resource over weekend

Question

Hi Azure Helpers,

I will like to find out how to check the no of users who login to the VM over the weekend so that i can check the utilization of the resource. Can you advise how i can do that or setup a a schedule task for it.

Thanks

Sky Yeo

Answer 1

Hi Sky,

You will need to set up a log collector such as Syslog log analytics agent:

Collect Syslog data sources with the Log Analytics agent

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/data-sources-syslog

Once you have this set up you can then use a tool called Microsoft Sentinel to collect data from syslog and display that data:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/connect-syslog