Where to find connection logs for Azure Blob Storage SFTP?

Question

Many SFTP servers record logs of attempted connections, activity, etc related to SFTP user accounts. In the new SFTP support for blob storage, I do not see a way to find logs of this type of information.

[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/secure-file-transfer-protocol-support

The closest thing I've found to be able to find info like this is within the Insights panel. In the below query (this is the built in performance dashboard), there are API endpoints listed related to SFTP. If there was a way to drill into individual SftpConnect results, this would be useful for troubleshooting connections coming from user accounts.

Is there a way to find details on individual requests sent via SFTP? Or is this a feature that could be requested?

Answer 1

@Mike Beller Welcome to to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

You just need to enable Azure Monitor logging in diagnostics settings: Azure Monitor Logs - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Learn

 This feature is supported refer to this Doc: Blob Storage feature support in Azure storage accounts | Microsoft Learn

 

 Classic Storage Analytics logging to $logs container is also supported, but note that not all pre-auth connection attempt failures are logged there.

If you have any additional questions or need further clarification, please let me know.

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