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Operation Logs

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Operation Logs is a Windows Azure Management portal feature which allows you to view historical logs of all Create/Update/Delete (CUD) operations performed on your Azure services. We recently enabled this very helpful feature for Azure Mobile Services which allow you to go back in time up to as much as 90 days to view what and when an operation was performed along with its status if it succeeded or failed.

You can access Operation Logs via Management Portal -> Management Services -> Operation Logs

 
You can filter the logs based on various parameters like subscription, date range, service type (e.g. Mobile Services, Web Sites), service name or status (of the operation e.g. Succeeded, Failed)

Here is a listing of sample operation logs Mobile Services from my test subscription. We comprehensively cover all the Mobile Services CUD operations performed on Mobile service, Tables, Custom API, Scheduled Job.
Note that for each operation you see the Timestamp when the operation was executed, status of the operation if it succeeded or failed, service name (the name of your Azure Mobile service appended by the resource name e.g table name or custom API name or scheduler script name), service type (Mobile Services in this case) and Caller (we add this information when we are able to detect if the request came from the portal or from the client e.g. Azure CLI)

 

Note that for each operation we add some additional information which can be found by clicking the Details button for the operation. For example: following is a log entry for an operation called Create Table which was successfully executed from the portal for an application called piyushjoStore and the table name created was DeliveryOrder.
 

 If you click the Details button then an Operation Details popup will display more details e.g. the table permissions with which this table was configured at the time of its creation:

 
If you see a failed request then it also become easy for the Microsoft support personnel to track down the request and possible reason for it based on the ActivityId displayed here.
 
Thanks and hopefully you'll find this nice little feature useful!!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2014
    Can we access these programmatically? Using .net?

  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2014
    similar question as Bob asked.We would like to make use of these logs to notify errors in service configuration , for example connection string error to storage or sql DBThanksRoy

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2014
    @Bob & @Roy - we don't have an ability to retrieve these logs programmatically at this moment however it is something which is on the product roadmap.

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2015
    Any update on access these programmatically? Using .net?  We need to export these log items in our SIEM tool.

  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2015
    +1 for programmatic access to the logs

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2015
    Any update on How to access Programmatically?

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2015
    To access the Ops Logs programmatically use the List Subscription Operations operation in the Service Management REST API Here's some resources: msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg715318.aspx blogs.technet.com/.../using-the-windows-azure-rest-apis-with-powershell.aspx technet.microsoft.com/.../Hh849971.aspx azure.microsoft.com/.../azure-automation-authenticating-to-azure-using-azure-active-directory I'm currently working on this myself and this was the best information I was able to find.