Log Analytics workspace data export in Azure Monitor
Data export in Log Analytics workspace lets you continuously export data per selected tables in your workspace, to an Azure Storage Account or Azure Event Hubs as it arrives to Azure Monitor pipeline. This article provides details on this feature and steps to configure data export in your workspaces.
Overview
Data in Log Analytics is available for the retention period defined in your workspace, and used in various experiences provided in Azure Monitor and Azure services. There are cases where you need to use other tools:
- Tamper protected store compliance – data can't be altered in Log Analytics once ingested, but can be purged. Export to Storage Account set with immutability policies to keep data tamper protected.
- Integration with Azure services and other tools – export to Event Hubs as data arrives and is processed in Azure Monitor.
- Keep audit and security data for very long time – export to Storage Account in the workspace's region, or replicate data to other regions using any of the Azure Storage redundancy options including "GRS" and "GZRS".
Once you've configured data export rules in Log Analytics workspace, new data for tables in rules is exported from Azure Monitor pipeline to your Storage Account or Event Hubs as it arrives.
Data is exported without a filter. For example, when you configure a data export rule for SecurityEvent table, all data sent to the SecurityEvent table is exported starting from the configuration time.
Other export options
Log Analytics workspace data export continuously exports data that is sent to your Log Analytics workspace. There are other options to export data for particular scenarios:
- Configure Diagnostic Settings in Azure resources. Logs are sent to destination directly and has lower latency compared to data export in Log Analytics.
- Schedule export of data based on a log query you define with the Log Analytics query API. Use services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, or Azure Logic App to orchestrate queries in your workspace and export data to a destination. This is similar to the data export feature, but allows you to export historical data from your workspace, using filters and aggregation. This method is subject to log query limits and not intended for scale. See Archive data from Log Analytics workspace to Azure Storage Account using Logic App.
- One time export to local machine using PowerShell script. See Invoke-AzOperationalInsightsQueryExport.
Limitations
- All tables will be supported in export, but currently limited to those specified in the supported tables section.
- Legacy custom log using the HTTP Data Collector API won’t be supported in export, while data for DCR based custom logs can be exported.
- You can define up to 10 enabled rules in your workspace. More rules are allowed when disabled.
- Destinations must be in the same region as the Log Analytics workspace.
- Storage Account must be unique across rules in workspace.
- Tables names can be no longer than 60 characters when exporting to Storage Account and 47 characters to Event Hubs. Tables with longer names will not be exported.
- Data export isn't supported in China currently.
Data completeness
Data export is optimized for moving large data volume to your destinations, and in certain retry conditions, can include a fraction of duplicated records. The export operation could fail when ingress limits are reached, see details under Create or update data export rule. In such case, a retry continues for up to 30 minutes, and if destination is unavailable yet, data will be discarded until destination becomes available.
Pricing model
Data export charges are based on the volume of data exported measured in bytes. The size of data exported by Log Analytics Data Export is the number of bytes in the exported JSON formatted data. Data volume is measured in GB (10^9 bytes)
For more information, including the data export billing timeline, see Azure Monitor pricing.
Export destinations
Data export destination must be available before creating export rules in your workspace. Destinations don't have to be in the same subscription as your workspace. When using Azure Lighthouse, it is also possible send data to destinations in another Azure Active Directory tenant.
You need to have 'write' permissions to both workspace and destination to configure data export rule on any table in workspace. The shared access policy for the Event Hubs namespace defines the permissions that the streaming mechanism has. Streaming to Event Hubs requires Manage, Send, and Listen permissions. To update the export rule, you must have the ListKey permission on that Event Hubs authorization rule.
Storage Account
Don't use an existing Storage Account that has other, non-monitoring data to better control access to the data, and prevent reaching storage ingress rate limit, failures, and latency.
To send data to immutable Storage Account, set the immutable policy for the Storage Account as described in Set and manage immutability policies for Blob storage. You must follow all steps in this article, including enabling protected append blobs writes.
The Storage Account must be StorageV1 or above and in the same region as your workspace. If you need to replicate your data to other Storage Accounts in other regions, you can use any of the Azure storage redundancy options, including "GRS" and "GZRS".
Data is sent to Storage Accounts as it reaches Azure Monitor and exported to destinations located in workspace region. A container is created for each table in Storage Account, with the name am- followed by the name of the table. For example, the table SecurityEvent would send to a container named am-SecurityEvent.
Blobs are stored in 5-minute folders in path structure: WorkspaceResourceId=/subscriptions/subscription-id/resourcegroups/<resource-group>/providers/microsoft.operationalinsights/workspaces/<workspace>/y=<four-digit numeric year>/m=<two-digit numeric month>/d=<two-digit numeric day>/h=<two-digit 24-hour clock hour>/m=<two-digit 60-minute clock minute>/PT05M.json. Appends to blobs are limited to 50-K writes. More blobs will be added in folder as: PT05M_#.json*, where # is incremental blob count.
The format of blobs in Storage Account is in JSON lines, where each record is delimited by a newline, with no outer records array and no commas between JSON records.
Event Hubs
Don't use an existing Event Hubs that has, non-monitoring data to prevent reaching Event Hubs namespace ingress rate limit, failures, and latency.
Data is sent to your Event Hubs as it reaches Azure Monitor and exported to destinations located in workspace region. You can create multiple export rules to the same Event Hubs namespace by providing different event hub name
in rule. When event hub name
isn't provided, default Event Hubs is created for tables that you export with name: am- followed by the name of the table. For example, the table SecurityEvent would be sent to an Event Hubs named: am-SecurityEvent. The number of supported Event Hubs in 'Basic' and 'Standard' namespaces tiers is 10. When exporting more than 10 tables to these tiers, either split the tables between several export rules, to different Event Hubs namespaces, or provide an Event Hubs name to export all tables to it.
Note
- 'Basic' Event Hubs namespace tier is limited – it supports lower event size and no Auto-inflate option to automatically scale up and increase the number of throughput units. Since data volume to your workspace increases over time and consequence Event Hubs scaling is required, use 'Standard', 'Premium' or 'Dedicated' Event Hubs tiers with Auto-inflate feature enabled. See Automatically scale up Azure Event Hubs throughput units.
- Data export can't reach Event Hubs resources when virtual networks are enabled. You have to enable the Allow trusted Microsoft services to bypass this firewall setting in event hub, to grant access to your Event Hubs.
Enable data export
The following steps must be performed to enable Log Analytics data export. See the following sections for more details on each.
- Register resource provider.
- Allow trusted Microsoft services.
- Create one or more data export rules that define the tables to export and their destination.
Register resource provider
Azure resource provider Microsoft.Insights needs to be registered in your subscription to enable Log Analytics data export.
This resource provider is probably already registered for most Azure Monitor users. To verify, go to Subscriptions in the Azure portal. Select your subscription and then click Resource providers in the Settings section of the menu. Locate Microsoft.Insights. If its status is Registered, then it's already registered. If not, click Register to register it.
You can also use any of the available methods to register a resource provider as described in Azure resource providers and types. Following is a sample command using CLI:
az provider register --namespace 'Microsoft.insights'
Following is a sample command using PowerShell:
Register-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.insights
Allow trusted Microsoft services
If you have configured your Storage Account to allow access from selected networks, you need to add an exception to allow Azure Monitor to write to the account. From Firewalls and virtual networks for your Storage Account, select Allow trusted Microsoft services to access this Storage Account.
Monitor destinations
Important
Export destinations have limits and should be monitored to minimize throttling, failures, and latency. See Storage Accounts scalability and Event Hubs namespace quota.
Monitoring Storage Account
Use separate Storage Account for export
Configure alert on the metric:
Scope Metric Namespace Metric Aggregation Threshold storage-name Account Ingress Sum 80% of max ingress per alert evaluation period. For example: limit is 60 Gbps for general-purpose v2 in West US. Threshold is 14,400 Gb per 5-minutes evaluation period Alert remediation actions
- Use separate Storage Account for export that isn't shared with non-monitoring data.
- Azure Storage standard accounts support higher ingress limit by request. To request an increase, contact Azure Support.
- Split tables between more Storage Accounts.
Monitoring Event Hubs
Configure alerts on the metrics:
Scope Metric Namespace Metric Aggregation Threshold namespaces-name Event Hubs standard metrics Incoming bytes Sum 80% of max ingress per alert evaluation period. For example, limit is 1 MB/s per unit ("TU" or "PU") and five units used. Threshold is 1200 MB per 5-minutes evaluation period namespaces-name Event Hubs standard metrics Incoming requests Count 80% of max events per alert evaluation period. For example, limit is 1000/s per unit ("TU" or ""PU") and five units used. Threshold is 1200000 per 5-minutes evaluation period namespaces-name Event Hubs standard metrics Quota Exceeded Errors Count Between 1% of request. For example, requests per 5-minute is 600000. Threshold is 6000 per 5-minute evaluation period Alert remediation actions
- Use separate Event Hubs namespace for export that isn't shared with non-monitoring data.
- Configure Auto-inflate feature to automatically scale up and increase the number of throughput units to meet usage needs
- Verify increase of throughput units to accommodate data volume
- Split tables between more namespaces
- Use 'Premium' or 'Dedicated' tiers for higher throughput
Create or update data export rule
Data export rule defines the destination and tables for which data is exported. You can create 10 rules in 'enable' state in your workspace, more rules are allowed in 'disable' state. Storage Account must be unique across rules in workspace. Multiple rules can use the same Event Hubs namespace when sending to separate Event Hubs.
Note
- You can include tables that aren't yet supported in export, and no data will be exported for these until the tables are supported.
- The legacy custom log won’t be supported in export. The next generation of custom log available in preview early 2022 can be exported.
- Export to Storage Account - a separate container is created in Storage Account for each table.
- Export to Event Hubs - if Event Hubs name isn't provided, a separate Event Hubs is created for each table. The number of supported Event Hubs in 'Basic' and 'Standard' namespaces tiers is 10. When exporting more than 10 tables to these tiers, either split the tables between several export rules to different Event Hubs namespaces, or provide an Event Hubs name in the rule to export all tables to it.
In the Log Analytics workspace menu in the Azure portal, select Data Export from the Settings section and click New export rule from the top of the middle pane.
Follow the steps, then click Create.

View data export rule configuration
In the Log Analytics workspace menu in the Azure portal, select Data Export from the Settings section.
Click a rule for configuration view.

Disable or update an export rule
Export rules can be disabled to let you stop the export for a certain period such as when testing is being held. In the Log Analytics workspace menu in the Azure portal, select Data Export from the Settings section and click the status toggle to disable or enable export rule.
Delete an export rule
In the Log Analytics workspace menu in the Azure portal, select Data Export from the Settings section, then click the ellipsis to the right of the rule and click Delete.
View all data export rules in a workspace
In the Log Analytics workspace menu in the Azure portal, select Data Export from the Settings section to view all export rules in workspace.
Unsupported tables
If the data export rule includes an unsupported table, the configuration will succeed, but no data will be exported for that table. If the table is later supported, then its data will be exported at that time.
Supported tables
All data from the table will be exported unless limitations are specified. This list is updated as more tables are added.
Table | Limitations |
---|---|
AACAudit | |
AACHttpRequest | |
AADDomainServicesAccountLogon | |
AADDomainServicesAccountManagement | |
AADDomainServicesDirectoryServiceAccess | |
AADDomainServicesLogonLogoff | |
AADDomainServicesPolicyChange | |
AADDomainServicesPrivilegeUse | |
AADManagedIdentitySignInLogs | |
AADNonInteractiveUserSignInLogs | |
AADProvisioningLogs | |
AADRiskyServicePrincipals | |
AADRiskyUsers | |
AADServicePrincipalRiskEvents | |
AADServicePrincipalSignInLogs | |
AADUserRiskEvents | |
ABSBotRequests | |
ACRConnectedClientList | |
ACSAuthIncomingOperations | |
ACSBillingUsage | |
ACSCallDiagnostics | |
ACSCallSummary | |
ACSChatIncomingOperations | |
ACSNetworkTraversalIncomingOperations | |
ACSSMSIncomingOperations | |
ADAssessmentRecommendation | |
ADFActivityRun | |
ADFPipelineRun | |
ADFSSignInLogs | |
ADFTriggerRun | |
ADPAudit | |
ADPRequests | |
ADReplicationResult | |
ADSecurityAssessmentRecommendation | |
ADTDigitalTwinsOperation | |
ADTEventRoutesOperation | |
ADTModelsOperation | |
ADTQueryOperation | |
ADXCommand | |
ADXQuery | |
AegDataPlaneRequests | |
AegDeliveryFailureLogs | |
AegPublishFailureLogs | |
AEWAuditLogs | |
AgriFoodApplicationAuditLogs | |
AgriFoodFarmManagementLogs | |
AgriFoodFarmOperationLogs | |
AgriFoodJobProcessedLogs | |
AGSGrafanaLoginEvents | |
Alert | Partial support – Data ingestion for Zabbix alerts isn't supported. |
AlertEvidence | |
AlertInfo | |
AmlOnlineEndpointConsoleLog | |
ApiManagementGatewayLogs | |
AppAvailabilityResults | |
AppBrowserTimings | |
AppCenterError | |
AppEvents | |
AppExceptions | |
AppDependencies | |
AppMetrics | |
AppPageViews | |
AppPerformanceCounters | |
AppPlatformSystemLogs | |
AppRequests | |
AppServiceAppLogs | |
AppServiceAuditLogs | |
AppServiceConsoleLogs | |
AppServiceFileAuditLogs | |
AppServiceHTTPLogs | |
AppServicePlatformLogs | |
AppSystemEvents | |
AppTraces | |
ASimDnsActivityLogs | |
ATCExpressRouteCircuitIpfix | |
AuditLogs | |
AutoscaleEvaluationsLog | |
AutoscaleScaleActionsLog | |
AWSCloudTrail | |
AWSGuardDuty | |
AWSVPCFlow | |
AzureAssessmentRecommendation | |
AzureAttestationDiagnostics | |
AzureDevOpsAuditing | |
BehaviorAnalytics | |
CassandraLogs | |
CDBCassandraRequests | |
CDBControlPlaneRequests | |
CDBDataPlaneRequests | |
CDBGremlinRequests | |
CDBMongoRequests | |
CDBPartitionKeyRUConsumption | |
CDBPartitionKeyStatistics | |
CDBQueryRuntimeStatistics | |
CIEventsAudit | |
CIEventsOperational | |
CloudAppEvents | |
CommonSecurityLog | |
ComputerGroup | |
ConfigurationData | Partial support – some of the data is ingested through internal services that aren't supported in export. This portion is missing in export currently. |
ContainerImageInventory | |
ContainerInventory | |
ContainerLog | |
ContainerLogV2 | |
ContainerNodeInventory | |
ContainerServiceLog | |
CoreAzureBackup | |
DatabricksAccounts | |
DatabricksClusters | |
DatabricksDBFS | |
DatabricksInstancePools | |
DatabricksJobs | |
DatabricksNotebook | |
DatabricksSecrets | |
DatabricksSQLPermissions | |
DatabricksSSH | |
DatabricksWorkspace | |
DnsEvents | |
DnsInventory | |
DSMAzureBlobStorageLogs | |
DSMDataClassificationLogs | |
DSMDataLabelingLogs | |
Dynamics365Activity | |
EmailAttachmentInfo | |
EmailEvents | |
EmailPostDeliveryEvents | |
EmailUrlInfo | |
Event | Partial support – data arriving from Log Analytics agent (MMA) or Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) is fully supported in export. Data arriving via Diagnostics extension agent is collected through storage while this path isn’t supported in export. |
ExchangeAssessmentRecommendation | |
FailedIngestion | |
FunctionAppLogs | |
HDInsightAmbariClusterAlerts | |
HDInsightAmbariSystemMetrics | |
HDInsightHadoopAndYarnLogs | |
HDInsightHadoopAndYarnMetrics | |
HDInsightHBaseLogs | |
HDInsightHBaseMetrics | |
HDInsightHiveAndLLAPLogs | |
HDInsightHiveAndLLAPMetrics | |
HDInsightHiveQueryAppStats | |
HDInsightHiveTezAppStats | |
HDInsightKafkaLogs | |
HDInsightKafkaMetrics | |
HDInsightOozieLogs | |
HDInsightSecurityLogs | |
HDInsightSparkApplicationEvents | |
HDInsightSparkBlockManagerEvents | |
HDInsightSparkEnvironmentEvents | |
HDInsightSparkExecutorEvents | |
HDInsightSparkJobEvents | |
HDInsightSparkLogs | |
HDInsightSparkSQLExecutionEvents | |
HDInsightSparkStageEvents | |
HDInsightSparkStageTaskAccumulables | |
HDInsightSparkTaskEvents | |
Heartbeat | |
HuntingBookmark | |
IdentityDirectoryEvents | |
IdentityLogonEvents | |
IdentityQueryEvents | |
InsightsMetrics | Partial support – some of the data is ingested through internal services that aren't supported in export. This portion is missing in export currently. |
IntuneAuditLogs | |
IntuneDevices | |
IntuneOperationalLogs | |
KubeEvents | |
KubeHealth | |
KubeMonAgentEvents | |
KubeNodeInventory | |
KubePodInventory | |
KubeServices | |
LAQueryLogs | |
McasShadowItReporting | |
MCVPAuditLogs | |
MCVPOperationLogs | |
MicrosoftAzureBastionAuditLogs | |
MicrosoftDataShareReceivedSnapshotLog | |
MicrosoftDataShareSentSnapshotLog | |
MicrosoftHealthcareApisAuditLogs | |
NWConnectionMonitorPathResult | |
NWConnectionMonitorTestResult | |
OfficeActivity | Partial support in government clouds – some of the data to ingested via webhooks from O365 into LA. This portion is missing in export currently. |
OLPSupplyChainEntityOperations | |
OLPSupplyChainEvents | |
Operation | Partial support – some of the data is ingested through internal services that aren't supported in export. This portion is missing in export currently. |
Perf | Partial support – only windows perf data is currently supported. The Linux perf data is missing in export currently. |
PowerBIActivity | |
PowerBIDatasetsWorkspace | |
ProjectActivity | |
PurviewDataSensitivityLogs | |
PurviewScanStatusLogs | |
ResourceManagementPublicAccessLogs | |
SCCMAssessmentRecommendation | |
SCOMAssessmentRecommendation | |
SecurityAlert | |
SecurityBaseline | |
SecurityBaselineSummary | |
SecurityDetection | |
SecurityEvent | Partial support – data arriving from Log Analytics agent (MMA) or Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) is fully supported in export. Data arriving via Diagnostics extension agent is collected through storage while this path isn’t supported in export. |
SecurityIncident | |
SecurityIoTRawEvent | |
SecurityNestedRecommendation | |
SecurityRecommendation | |
SentinelAudit | |
SentinelHealth | |
SfBAssessmentRecommendation | |
SfBOnlineAssessmentRecommendation | |
SharePointOnlineAssessmentRecommendation | |
SignalRServiceDiagnosticLogs | |
SigninLogs | |
SPAssessmentRecommendation | |
SQLAssessmentRecommendation | |
SQLSecurityAuditEvents | |
StorageCacheOperationEvents | |
SucceededIngestion | |
SynapseBigDataPoolApplicationsEnded | |
SynapseBuiltinSqlPoolRequestsEnded | |
SynapseGatewayApiRequests | |
SynapseIntegrationActivityRuns | |
SynapseIntegrationPipelineRuns | |
SynapseIntegrationTriggerRuns | |
SynapseRbacOperations | |
SynapseScopePoolScopeJobsEnded | |
SynapseScopePoolScopeJobsStateChange | |
SynapseSqlPoolDmsWorkers | |
SynapseSqlPoolExecRequests | |
SynapseSqlPoolRequestSteps | |
SynapseSqlPoolSqlRequests | |
SynapseSqlPoolWaits | |
Syslog | Partial support – data arriving from Log Analytics agent (MMA) or Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) is fully supported in export. Data arriving via Diagnostics extension agent is collected through storage while this path isn’t supported in export. |
ThreatIntelligenceIndicator | |
UCClient | |
UCClientUpdateStatus | |
UCDeviceAlert | |
UCServiceUpdateStatus | |
UCUpdateAlert | |
Update | Partial support – some of the data is ingested through internal services that aren't supported in export. This portion is missing in export currently. |
UpdateRunProgress | |
UpdateSummary | |
Usage | |
UserAccessAnalytics | |
UserPeerAnalytics | |
Watchlist | |
WindowsEvent | |
WindowsFirewall | |
WireData | Partial support – some of the data is ingested through internal services that aren't supported in export. This portion is missing in export currently. |
WorkloadDiagnosticLogs | |
WVDAgentHealthStatus | |
WVDCheckpoints | |
WVDConnections | |
WVDErrors | |
WVDFeeds | |
WVDManagement |
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