Azure Daily 2022 by Gordon

General availability: Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs

Azure Monitor agent is the way to collect text and IIS files for Log Analytics.

Today Microsoft is happy to introduce the long-awaited Custom Log and IIS Log collection capability. This new capability is designed to enable customers to collect their text-based logs generated in their service or application. Likewise, Internet Information Service (IIS) logs for a customers’ service can be collected and transferred into a Log Analytics Workspace table for analysis. These new collection types will enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor.

Screenshot that shows the Add data source screen for a data collection rule in Azure portal.