Hi,

Is there a place or service to see all the operation logs on Azure, including VM creating/deleting, loading of SQL, bandwidth flooding, and/or billing transaction logs? What kind of Azure API/SDK may I start to involve in the goal of this observation?

Or where should I go on to figure out this?

Hi Humble Same,

Thanks for posting here!

The steps to operation logs ->in the azure portal -> management services -> operation logs(date range) -> list out the operation performed such as VM created/deleted

You could programmatically get this information. To do so, you would need to make use of Windows Azure Service Management API especially List Subscription Operations. Portal actually makes use of the same operation.

Reference link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/gg715318.aspx

You can use 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.

For more information see this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/azuremobile/archive/2013/11/26/operation-logs.aspx

For billing transaction logs, you can login to https://ms.portal.azure.com/ and click on billing icon which gives details about billing. You might want to take a look at audit logs under notifications which gives you wealth of information which might be helpful.

Best Regards

Sadiqh Ahmed

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• Proposed as answer by Girish PrajwalMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 20 hours 6 minutes ago

Hi Humble Same,

Thanks for posting here!

The steps to operation logs ->in the azure portal -> management services -> operation logs(date range) -> list out the operation performed such as VM created/deleted

You could programmatically get this information. To do so, you would need to make use of Windows Azure Service Management API especially List Subscription Operations. Portal actually makes use of the same operation.

Reference link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/gg715318.aspx

You can use 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.

For more information see this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/azuremobile/archive/2013/11/26/operation-logs.aspx

For billing transaction logs, you can login to https://ms.portal.azure.com/ and click on billing icon which gives details about billing. You might want to take a look at audit logs under notifications which gives you wealth of information which might be helpful.

Best Regards

Sadiqh Ahmed

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• Proposed as answer by Girish PrajwalMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, June 29, 2015 11:11 AM
• Marked as answer by Humble Same 16 hours 57 minutes ago

Hi Humble Same,

Thanks for posting here!

The steps to operation logs ->in the azure portal -> management services -> operation logs(date range) -> list out the operation performed such as VM created/deleted

You could programmatically get this information. To do so, you would need to make use of Windows Azure Service Management API especially List Subscription Operations. Portal actually makes use of the same operation.

Reference link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/gg715318.aspx

You can use 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.

For more information see this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/azuremobile/archive/2013/11/26/operation-logs.aspx

For billing transaction logs, you can login to https://ms.portal.azure.com/ and click on billing icon which gives details about billing. You might want to take a look at audit logs under notifications which gives you wealth of information which might be helpful.

Best Regards

Sadiqh Ahmed

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• Proposed as answer by Girish PrajwalMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, June 29, 2015 11:11 AM
• Marked as answer by Humble Same Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:21 PM

Hi Sadiqh,

Thank you for the great reply! For billing transaction logs, notifications and audit logs, I'd like to know if they are possible to reach programmatically?

If youre the account administrator for an Azure subscription, you can use the Azure Billing Alert Service to create customized billing alerts that help you monitor and manage billing activity for your Azure accounts.

Set up billing alerts for your Microsoft Azure subscriptions and also you can check the billing transactions other than the Azure Accounts portal is from this link: https://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/

As mentioned in my earlier post to pull other logs programmatically you can use Azure management API's.

For billing transaction logs, notifications and audit logs, I'd like to know if they are possible to reach programmatically?

A: I don't think this is possible.