Event Categories - List

Service:

Monitor

API Version:

2015-04-01

Get the list of available event categories supported in the Activity Logs Service.
The current list includes the following: Administrative, Security, ServiceHealth, Alert, Recommendation, Policy.

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Insights/eventcategories?api-version=2015-04-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
api-version	query	True	string	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	EventCategoryCollection	Successful request to get the list of event categories
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Get event categories

Sample Request

HTTP

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Insights/eventcategories?api-version=2015-04-01

Java

import com.azure.core.util.Context;

/** Samples for EventCategories List. */
public final class Main {
    /*
     * x-ms-original-file: specification/monitor/resource-manager/Microsoft.Insights/stable/2015-04-01/examples/GetEventCategories.json
     */
    /**
     * Sample code: Get event categories.
     *
     * @param azure The entry point for accessing resource management APIs in Azure.
     */
    public static void getEventCategories(com.azure.resourcemanager.AzureResourceManager azure) {
        azure.diagnosticSettings().manager().serviceClient().getEventCategories().list(Context.NONE);
    }
}

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Go

package armmonitor_test

import (
	"context"
	"log"

	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity"
	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/monitor/armmonitor"
)

// Generated from example definition: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/969fd0c2634fbcc1975d7abe3749330a5145a97c/specification/monitor/resource-manager/Microsoft.Insights/stable/2015-04-01/examples/GetEventCategories.json
func ExampleEventCategoriesClient_NewListPager() {
	cred, err := azidentity.NewDefaultAzureCredential(nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to obtain a credential: %v", err)
	}
	ctx := context.Background()
	clientFactory, err := armmonitor.NewClientFactory("<subscription-id>", cred, nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to create client: %v", err)
	}
	pager := clientFactory.NewEventCategoriesClient().NewListPager(nil)
	for pager.More() {
		page, err := pager.NextPage(ctx)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatalf("failed to advance page: %v", err)
		}
		for _, v := range page.Value {
			// You could use page here. We use blank identifier for just demo purposes.
			_ = v
		}
		// If the HTTP response code is 200 as defined in example definition, your page structure would look as follows. Please pay attention that all the values in the output are fake values for just demo purposes.
		// page.EventCategoryCollection = armmonitor.EventCategoryCollection{
		// 	Value: []*armmonitor.LocalizableString{
		// 		{
		// 			LocalizedValue: to.Ptr("category1"),
		// 			Value: to.Ptr("category1"),
		// 		},
		// 		{
		// 			LocalizedValue: to.Ptr("category2"),
		// 			Value: to.Ptr("category2"),
		// 	}},
		// }
	}
}

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JavaScript

const { MonitorClient } = require("@azure/arm-monitor");
const { DefaultAzureCredential } = require("@azure/identity");

/**
 * This sample demonstrates how to Get the list of available event categories supported in the Activity Logs Service.<br>The current list includes the following: Administrative, Security, ServiceHealth, Alert, Recommendation, Policy.
 *
 * @summary Get the list of available event categories supported in the Activity Logs Service.<br>The current list includes the following: Administrative, Security, ServiceHealth, Alert, Recommendation, Policy.
 * x-ms-original-file: specification/monitor/resource-manager/Microsoft.Insights/stable/2015-04-01/examples/GetEventCategories.json
 */
async function getEventCategories() {
  const subscriptionId =
    process.env["MONITOR_SUBSCRIPTION_ID"] || "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
  const credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
  const client = new MonitorClient(credential, subscriptionId);
  const resArray = new Array();
  for await (let item of client.eventCategories.list()) {
    resArray.push(item);
  }
  console.log(resArray);
}

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dotnet

using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Monitor;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Monitor.Models;

// Generated from example definition: specification/monitor/resource-manager/Microsoft.Insights/stable/2015-04-01/examples/GetEventCategories.json
// this example is just showing the usage of "EventCategories_List" operation, for the dependent resources, they will have to be created separately.

// get your azure access token, for more details of how Azure SDK get your access token, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/sdk/authentication?tabs=command-line
TokenCredential cred = new DefaultAzureCredential();
// authenticate your client
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(cred);

// this example assumes you already have this TenantResource created on azure
// for more information of creating TenantResource, please refer to the document of TenantResource
var tenantResource = client.GetTenants().GetAllAsync().GetAsyncEnumerator().Current;

// invoke the operation and iterate over the result
await foreach (MonitorLocalizableString item in tenantResource.GetEventCategoriesAsync())
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Succeeded: {item}");
}

Console.WriteLine($"Succeeded");

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Sample Response

Status code:

200

{
  "value": [
    {
      "value": "category1",
      "localizedValue": "category1"
    },
    {
      "value": "category2",
      "localizedValue": "category2"
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
ErrorResponse	Describes the format of Error response.
EventCategoryCollection	A collection of event categories. Currently possible values are: Administrative, Security, ServiceHealth, Alert, Recommendation, Policy.
LocalizableString	The localizable string class.

ErrorResponse

Describes the format of Error response.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	Error code
message	string	Error message indicating why the operation failed.

EventCategoryCollection

A collection of event categories. Currently possible values are: Administrative, Security, ServiceHealth, Alert, Recommendation, Policy.

Name	Type	Description
value	LocalizableString[]	the list that includes the Azure event categories.

LocalizableString

The localizable string class.

Name	Type	Description
localizedValue	string	the locale specific value.
value	string	the invariant value.