On October 8th, 2019, Microsoft announced the support of increasing retention independently per data type. What this means, is that if you want to collect 6 months worth of log data for the SecurityEvent Log, you can do so independently of the retention period for other data types. The official documentation on that is here: … [Read more...] about Increasing Azure Log Analytics Retention Per Data Type
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Monitor Azure Virtual Machine Deletes and Creations with Log Analytics
Update (3/6/2020): There is a new method of ingesting Activity Log data into your Log Analytics Workspace. Please see this article series I wrote here for more information. The new article series discusses using the method outlined in this article as well as the new method, differences between the two, how to utilize a new Kusto Query to pull output from both methods as well as … [Read more...] about Monitor Azure Virtual Machine Deletes and Creations with Log Analytics