Hi

What is the easiest way to find out who created an object in your Azure subscription and when it was last used?

Cheers

Rob

Hi Rob,

There is an audit log feature in the Azure Management portal. With this you can see any activity that outputs notifications. It is not that visible in the interface but you can filter on any Microsoft or organisational account to find out who did what and when. Use the 'caller' field and enter a login name (like the example below).

In terms of usage there is a new API to monitor Azure usage.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/billing-usage-rate-card-overview/

Here's an example of the output that you can get from this API:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt219001.aspx

For other services like Azure Storage there are additional API's to monitor lower-level usage (Azure Storage Analytics):

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh343270.aspx

Does this give you the information you were lookin

Thanks it helps and I did look in the audit log but I believe this only stores the previous 90 days activity. I was wondering if there was a way to directly query objects via PowerShell and find out when/which user ID created it?

Thanks for any further pointers.