description: ‘Send logs, metrics to Azure Log Analytics’

Azure Log Analytics

Azure output plugin allows to ingest your records into Azure Log Analytics service.

To get more details about how to setup Azure Log Analytics, please refer to the following documentation: Azure Log Analytics

Key	Description	default
Customer_ID	Customer ID or WorkspaceID string.
Shared_Key	The primary or the secondary Connected Sources client authentication key.
Log_Type	The name of the event type.	fluentbit

In order to insert records into an Azure Log Analytics instance, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:

The azure plugin, can read the parameters from the command line in two ways, through the -p argument (property), e.g:

$ fluent-bit -i cpu -o azure -p customer_id=abc -p shared_key=def -m '*' -f 1

In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:

[INPUT]
    Name  cpu
[OUTPUT]
    Name        azure
    Match       *
    Customer_ID abc
    Shared_Key  def