Set a table's log data plan to Basic or Analytics

Azure Monitor Logs offers two log data plans that let you reduce log ingestion and retention costs and take advantage of Azure Monitor's advanced features and analytics capabilities based on your needs:

  • The default Analytics log data plan provides full analysis capabilities and makes log data available for queries, Azure Monitor features, such as alerts, and use by other services.
  • The Basic log data plan lets you save on the cost of ingesting and storing high-volume verbose logs in your Log Analytics workspace for debugging, troubleshooting, and auditing, but not for analytics and alerts.

This article describes Azure Monitor's log data plans and explains how to configure the log data plan of the tables in your Log Analytics workspace.

Permissions

To set a table's log data plan, you must have at least contributor rights.

Compare the Basic and Analytics log data plans

The following table summarizes the Basic and Analytics log data plans.

Category Analytics Basic
Ingestion Regular ingestion cost. Reduced ingestion cost.
Log queries Full query capabilities
No extra cost.
Basic query capabilities.
Pay-per-use.
Retention Configure retention from 30 days to two years. Retention fixed at eight days.
When you change an existing table's plan to Basic logs, Azure archives data that's more than eight days old but still within the table's original retention period.
Alerts Supported. Not supported.

Note

The Basic log data plan isn't available for workspaces in legacy pricing tiers.

When should I use Basic logs?

By default, all tables in your Log Analytics workspace are Analytics tables, and they're available for query and alerts.

Configure a table for Basic logs if:

  • You don't require more than eight days of data retention for the table.
  • You only require basic queries of the data using a limited version of the query language.
  • The cost savings for data ingestion exceed the expected cost for any expected queries.
  • The table supports Basic logs.

Set a table's log data plan

When you change a table's plan from Analytics to Basic, Log Analytics immediately archives any data that's older than eight days and up to original data retention of the table. In other words, the total retention period of the table remains unchanged, unless you explicitly modify the archive period.

When you change a table's plan from Basic to Analytics, the changes take affect on existing data in the table immediately.

Note

You can switch a table's plan once a week.

To configure a table for Basic logs or Analytics logs in the Azure portal:

  1. From the Log Analytics workspaces menu, select Tables.

    The Tables screen lists all the tables in the workspace.

  2. Select the context menu for the table you want to configure and select Manage table.

    Screenshot that shows the Manage table button for one of the tables in a workspace.

  3. From the Table plan dropdown on the table configuration screen, select Basic or Analytics.

    The Table plan dropdown is enabled only for tables that support Basic logs.

    Screenshot that shows the Table plan dropdown on the table configuration screen.

  4. Select Save.

Supported tables

These tables currently support Basic logs:

All custom tables created with or migrated to the data collection rule (DCR)-based logs ingestion API..

Service Table
Azure Active Directory AADDomainServicesDNSAuditsGeneral
AADDomainServicesDNSAuditsDynamicUpdates
AADServicePrincipalSignInLogs
Azure Databricks DatabricksBrickStoreHttpGateway
DatabricksDataMonitoring
DatabricksFilesystem
DatabricksDashboards
DatabricksCloudStorageMetadata
DatabricksPredictiveOptimization
DatabricksIngestion
DatabricksMarketplaceConsumer
DatabricksLineageTracking
API Management ApiManagementGatewayLogs
ApiManagementWebSocketConnectionLogs
Application Gateways AGWAccessLogs
AGWPerformanceLogs
AGWFirewallLogs
Application Gateway for Containers AGCAccessLogs
Application Insights AppTraces
Bare Metal Machines NCBMSecurityDefenderLogs
NCBMSystemLogs
NCBMSecurityLogs
NCBMBreakGlassAuditLogs
Chaos Experiments ChaosStudioExperimentEventLogs
Cloud HSM CHSMManagementAuditLogs
Container Apps ContainerAppConsoleLogs
Container Insights ContainerLogV2
Container Apps Environments AppEnvSpringAppConsoleLogs
Communication Services ACSCallAutomationIncomingOperations
ACSCallAutomationMediaSummary
ACSCallClientMediaStatsTimeSeries
ACSCallClientOperations
ACSCallRecordingIncomingOperations
ACSCallRecordingSummary
ACSCallSummary
ACSJobRouterIncomingOperations
ACSRoomsIncomingOperations
ACSCallClosedCaptionsSummary
Confidential Ledgers CCFApplicationLogs
Cosmos DB CDBDataPlaneRequests
CDBPartitionKeyStatistics
CDBPartitionKeyRUConsumption
CDBQueryRuntimeStatistics
CDBMongoRequests
CDBCassandraRequests
CDBGremlinRequests
CDBControlPlaneRequests
Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) VCoreMongoRequests
Kubernetes clusters - Azure Arc ArcK8sAudit
ArcK8sAuditAdmin
ArcK8sControlPlane
Data Manager for Energy OEPDataplaneLogs
Dedicated SQL Pool SynapseSqlPoolSqlRequests
SynapseSqlPoolRequestSteps
SynapseSqlPoolExecRequests
SynapseSqlPoolDmsWorkers
SynapseSqlPoolWaits
DNS Security Policies DNSQueryLogs
Dev Centers DevCenterDiagnosticLogs
DevCenterResourceOperationLogs
DevCenterBillingEventLogs
Data Transfer DataTransferOperations
Event Hubs AZMSArchiveLogs
AZMSAutoscaleLogs
AZMSCustomerManagedKeyUserLogs
AZMSKafkaCoordinatorLogs
AZMSKafkaUserErrorLogs
Firewalls AZFWFlowTrace
Health Care APIs AHDSMedTechDiagnosticLogs
AHDSDicomDiagnosticLogs
AHDSDicomAuditLogs
Key Vault AZKVAuditLogs
AZKVPolicyEvaluationDetailsLogs
Kubernetes services AKSAudit
AKSAuditAdmin
AKSControlPlane
Log Analytics LASummaryLogs
Managed Lustre AFSAuditLogs
Managed NGINX NGXOperationLogs
Media Services AMSLiveEventOperations
AMSKeyDeliveryRequests
AMSMediaAccountHealth
AMSStreamingEndpointRequests
Microsoft Graph MicrosoftGraphActivityLogs
Monitor AzureMetricsV2
Network Devices (Operator Nexus) MNFDeviceUpdates
MNFSystemStateMessageUpdates
Network Managers AVNMConnectivityConfigurationChange
AVNMIPAMPoolAllocationChange
Nexus Clusters NCCKubernetesLogs
NCCVMOrchestrationLogs
Nexus Storage Appliances NCSStorageLogs
NCSStorageAlerts
Operator Insights – Data Products AOIDatabaseQuery
AOIDigestion
AOIStorage
Redis cache ACRConnectedClientList
Redis Cache Enterprise REDConnectionEvents
Relays AZMSHybridConnectionsEvents
Security SecurityAttackPathData
Service Bus AZMSApplicationMetricLogs
AZMSOperationalLogs
AZMSRunTimeAuditLogs
AZMSVNetConnectionEvents
Sphere ASCAuditLogs
ASCDeviceEvents
Storage StorageBlobLogs
StorageFileLogs
StorageQueueLogs
StorageTableLogs
Synapse Analytics SynapseSqlPoolExecRequests
SynapseSqlPoolRequestSteps
SynapseSqlPoolDmsWorkers
SynapseSqlPoolWaits
Storage Mover StorageMoverJobRunLogs
StorageMoverCopyLogsFailed
StorageMoverCopyLogsTransferred
Virtual Network Manager AVNMNetworkGroupMembershipChange
AVNMRuleCollectionChange

Note

Tables created with the Data Collector API don't support Basic logs.

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