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Analyze Azure CDN usage patterns

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Important

Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on September 30, 2027. To avoid any service disruption, it is important that you migrate your Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) profiles to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium tier by September 30, 2027. For more information, see Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) retirement.

Azure CDN from Edgio will be retired on November 4, 2025. You must migrate your workload to Azure Front Door before this date to avoid service disruption. For more information, see Azure CDN from Edgio retirement FAQ.

After you enable CDN for your application, you can monitor CDN usage, check the health of your delivery, and troubleshoot potential issues. Azure CDN provides these capabilities in the following ways:

Raw logs for Azure CDN from Microsoft

With a Standard Microsoft profile, you can enable raw logs and select to stream logs to:

  • Azure Storage
  • Event hubs
  • Azure Log Analytics

With Azure Log Analytics you can view monitoring metrics, and set up alerts.

For more information, see Azure CDN HTTP raw logs.

Core analytics via Azure diagnostic logs

Core analytics is available for content delivery network endpoints for all pricing tiers. Azure Diagnostics logs allow core analytics to be exported to Azure Storage, Event Hubs, or Azure Monitor logs. Azure Monitor logs offers a solution with graphs that are user-configurable and customizable. For more information about Azure diagnostic logs, see Azure diagnostic logs.

Edgio core reports

Azure CDN Standard from Edgio or Azure CDN Premium from Edgio profiles provide core reports. You can view core reports in the Edgio supplemental portal. Edgio core reports are accessible via the Manage option from the Azure portal and offers different kinds of graphs and views. For more information, see Core Reports from Edgio.

Edgio custom reports

Azure CDN Standard from Edgio or Azure CDN Premium from Edgio profiles provide custom reports. You can view custom reports in the Edgio supplemental portal. Edgio custom reports are accessible via the Manage option from the Azure portal.

The custom reports display the number of hits or data transferred for each edge CNAME. Data gets grouped by HTTP response code or cache status over period of time. For more information, see Custom Reports from Edgio.

Azure CDN Premium from Edgio reports

With Azure CDN Premium from Edgio, you can also access the following reports:

Next steps

In this article, you learned about the different options for analysis reports for Azure CDN.

For more information on Azure CDN and the other Azure services mentioned in this article, see: