Log Analytics
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Multi tenancy: Collect Azure Health logs from different Azure tenants
We manage Azure tenants for multiple companies. We want one central monitoring and automation Workspace to manage all these different tenants.
Although you can collect data from vm agents in different Azure tenants as well as data from different Office365 tenants it is not possible to get the Azure Health logs from different tenants into one OMS Workspace.457 votesYou can send Azure Activity Logs (aka operational events/audit events) for multiple subscriptions to a single log analytics workspace.
Is this what you mean by Health logs? If so, you can query for them with Type=AzureActivity Category=ServiceHealth
Additional guidance for service providers:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-service-providers-Richard
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6 hours SLA on indexing custom log data is a very long time to alert on
According to this article https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/log-analytics/v1_1/ SLA on indexing log data might take up to 6 hours. OMS has built in alerting that allows you to trigger actions within 5 minutes of data arrival. But if indexing takes more than 5 minutes - then what's the point of creating alert that might trigger on something that is no longer a problem, or not trigger at all if there is real problem. What is the average data indexing time? Log Analytics would be much more useful and have many more applications in real world if that indexing time is much lower. 6…
334 votesWe have recently published an article – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-data-ingestion-time that details various aspects of data ingestion time for Log Analytics, and clarifies distinction between the financially-backed SLA and our Service-Level Objectives. In fact, the typical latency to ingest data into Log Analytics is between 3 and 10 minutes, with 95% of data ingested in less than 7 minutes.
We are also actively working to bring this latency down even further, and many customers already report that they experienced a significant improvement, but more is coming.
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310 votes
We’ll watch interest. Can you comment/provide scenarios/use cases? is the idea to collect (thru the agent? or from azure subscription?) certificates and show/allow searching their properties?
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Improve multitenancy for managed services providers
Currently we can have one subscription per MG and/or consolidate multiple MGs into one single subscription. What's missing is the ability to have groups of different systems from the same MG to report to different subscriptions. In management as a service scenario for SMB customers it's often impractical to have 1 MG per customer, rather multiple customers are consolidated into one infrastructure (MG) and then access is limited via scoping. Bring this to Advisor, please.
287 votesWe’ll be working to bring this functionality in stages over the next several months.
One of the first steps is to ensure that workspace creation and configuration can be done programmatically.
We’re also looking at how to report across multiple workspaces.
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Provide an Intelligence Pack for System Center Service Manager
Create an intelligence pack for System Center Service Manager to provide additional analytical data for problem management, incident analysis, and configuration item analysis.
272 votesCan you provide a RANKED list of what is MOST and LEAST important for the various capabilities and scenarios that SM provides? i.e. you listed
- problem management
- incident management
- configuration items
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Use Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) to send events to OpInsights
Would it be cool if you could configure Windows Server WEF (Windows Event Forwarding - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748890.aspx ) to send to Advisor for Log Management scenario, without using the SCOM agent ?
Alternatively, if one already has a forwarder/collector (WEF/WEC) architecture in place, could it be possible to use just one SCOM agent/gateway to pull the 'forwarded' logs stored on that collector from that single box to the cloud.269 votesThis is currently under development, scheduled to be in preview later in 2018
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StorSimple Management from OMS
Could it be possible to add StorSimple to the OMS dashboard? I would like to see monitoring, usage, updates and snapshots from within the dashboard.
265 votesThanks for the idea, Ben. Let’s see how much traction this feedback receives from the community.
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Azure Machine Learning with Log Analytics
1 on OMS with Azure ML. As organizations lack the ability to mine through mounds of log data to detect trends and determine what services are running well and which services may need help.
Problem Management is one of the processes that requires Incident/Event data to determine trends. Many organizations struggle with this as they need to have a person look at this data and analyze it. Using OMS Analytics data and pumping to through Azure Machine Learning and providing insights would be valuable to IT organizations.
This would increase IT Organization’s maturity and drive business value.. I see a…
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Azure Operational Insights for on-premises
We want to install "Azure Operational Insights" to on-promises.
Many of customer can not upload their logs to Azure (legal or etc...).257 votesWe are not planning on-prem version of Log Analytics in a foreseeable future
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Support Nano Server
Support Nano Server
251 votesWe’ll leverage the work done to have SCOM monitor Nano server to also bring support for Nano server to report to OMS.
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Collect IIS Advanced logs
Allow the collection and addition of custom fields using advanced logging or custom IIS modules. Example is to add x-forwarded-for to IIS logs in W3WC format.
162 votesLet’s see how many come here and vote this, but we probably won’t special case this one log type ourselves.
We are anyhow doing work to enable per-tenant schema (since your fields would be different than mine) – tracked as part of the ‘custom fields’ work http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights/suggestions/6519270-allow-to-perform-parsing-and-custom-fields-extract
to be followed eventually by ‘custom logs’ http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights/suggestions/7113030-collect-text-log-files
and
http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights/suggestions/7928931-collect-data-from-custom-containers-in-storage-accwhich will enable this scenario – and many more!
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Collect IIS Logs from Windows Azure Diagnostics storage (WAD) for Azure Web Sites
Azure WebSites write to WAD in a different folder structure. The work of this other idea http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operations-insights/suggestions/6519377-collect-iis-logs-from-windows-azure-diagnostics-st enables reading those IIS logs for Azure Cloud Services (i.e. web role instances) but not for Azure Web sites.
This new idea is for the latter scope.157 votesCloud Services / Virtual Machines write with a different container/folder structure in Azure blob than Azure WebSites. Our current ingestion processes the former, not the latter.
Anyhow, also consider the ‘generic’ idea of a platform feature to ingest your own logs http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights/suggestions/7928931-collect-data-from-custom-containers-in-storage-acc
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One Overall OMS Dashboard integraded with SCOM - Cisco Prime -Solarwinds
Lot of Enterprise organizations have Multi monitor environment Like Microsoft SCOM for Servers in the Datacenter, Cisco Prime for network infrastructure like WiFi and SolarWinds for Network components. Monitoring from outside to inside like Microsoft OMS could be the Service in the middle and make One single Dashboard for the Business, but also for IT Pro's.
146 votes5 comments · Agent Management, Data Metering and Usage (Portal) · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →Thanks you for taking the time to provide this feedback. We are looking at developing a centralized alerting view which will support monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, Solarwinds. If you are interested in participating on the private preview of this solution please email me.
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Add multiple Azure subscriptions to OMS workspace
At the moment you can't link multiple Azure subscriptions to one OMS workspace. This would be very usefull for MSP's. We are using SCOM to monitor customers on-prem infrastructure and want to link SCOM to a OMS workspace linked to multiple Azure subscriptions.
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Collect Azure Active Directory Security logs with OMS
You should be able to see reports regarding "Azure Active Directory" Security logs. (sign-in/audit/...)
There already is a Azure possibility to see Azure Active Directory Reports. It would be nice to have this data in OMS.
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Do not sunset the OMS mobile until the Azure mobile can display dashboards and chart information.
Do not sunset the OMS mobile app until the Azure mobile app can effectively replace the functionality. The current Azure mobile application cannot display any dashboards (including Azure dashboards) nor can it display log analytics or application insights queries. This functionality is currently only available in the OMS mobile app!
135 votesWe are actively seeking for feedback in this area, as this is non trivial decision for us. Based on the user voice, there seems to be some passionate supporters for this capability, yet, the number of users actively using the app remains very low. Would love to hear ideas on how to reconcile this:
1. is it just a great demo feature?
2. Which one of the features users are using – dashboards vs. search vs. alerts?
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Show Contextual data such as CPU and RAM for servers
When I click over a list that shows servers and select a given server from the list it would be nice to get a quick overview of the system. Such as OS SKU, CPU, RAM, Disk Free and so on.
127 votesWe have not forgotten about this but this is a multi-faceted feedback that expresses a desire (show me/let me pivot to contextual data), but besides the graphical interaction we need to bring the right capabilities and the right data types to the platform first.
A first step in this direction is the common ‘Computer’ field – http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operations-insights/suggestions/6519266-unify-standardize-computer-field-across-intellig
that allows you to pivot from one data type to another, and to join different data types thru sub-searches http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights/suggestions/6519234-filter-groups-of-computers-thru-subqueries-in-n
(which anyhow are generic and work with other fields too)We are starting to discuss what a UX for ‘context’ could look like, but we are not finished with bringing in new data types to make that really compelling :-)
One example of such ‘context’ is in the form of tracking configuration changes – http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operations-insights/suggestions/6519185-need-configuration-change-tracking-solution-softw so you can move from a troubleshooting scenario (capacity or events) to a ‘context’ of what has changed…
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BizTalk Server Intelligence pack
Create an Intelligence pack for BizTalk Server, something similar to BizTalk Server 2013 Monitoring Management Pack:
- Application Views
- Application Artifacts Views
- Deployment Views
- BAM Component Views
- BAM Alerts
etcAs a MS partner company we have several customers very interested in this feature!!
122 votesThat’s a quote a lot of votes from a bunch of new users in a very short time, although 9 people are from the same two companies and 7 other are anonymous, and a few other ones. Let’s see how generally applicable/widespread the demand is.
Also see the comment from Daniele M. below for general considerations about monitoring scenarios.
Let’s also clarify (this is not clear in the request): is the request to support:
a) ‘traditional’ on-premises BizTalk
or
b) Azure BizTalk services
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Log Analytics: Service Map export to visio
Create a export to Visio function to export the Service Map canvas to visio file/s
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Expand Data Retention for Security and Audit IP
Provide to ability to expand the data retention to 3-8 years. Some customers do have compliance rules to save their security related data for 8 years. When this could be accomplished we move our ACS implementations on premise to OpInsights.
105 votesWe now support retaining data for up to 2 years:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-manage-access#change-how-long-log-analytics-stores-data—Richard
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