Check Data Read, Write and Copy logs in Azure Storage using Log Analytics.

Question

Hi Experts,

I have created an Azure Storage Account that contains Azure Containers and File Shares. I have mounted this file share as a shared Drive on to one of the Virtual Machines of the Same environment. I have then configured Log analytics Workspace and connected both the Virtual machine and the Storage account to the Log Analytics to collect the data.

I have copied some data to the Azure File share that is mounted on the VM and now I want to check the storage performance of the File Share. How can I achieve this using Log analytics.

Answer 1

@Garima Das
Apologies for the delayed response. Data for Azure Files is stored in the StorageFileLogs table. You can perform queries to this table to get some performance data, samples can be found here. Since you are looking at performance the DurationMs and ServerLatencyMs would be useful to you, you can view the data that is logged here.

Since you are monitoring performance the Metrics in Azure Monitor will also be useful. A list of available metrics can be found here.

Hope this helps! Let us know if you run into issues or have further questions.

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