Note: To complete this lab, you will need an Azure subscription. in which you have administrative access.

When you collect logs and data, the information is stored in a workspace. A workspace has a unique workspace ID and resource ID. The workspace name must be unique for a given resource group. After you’ve created a workspace, configure data sources and solutions to store their data there.


Skilling task

  • Create a Log Analytics workspace.
  • Associate the workspace with an existing resource group.
  • Specify a specific region to deploy the workspace.

Exercise instructions

Use the Log Analytics workspaces menu to create a workspace.

  1. Start a browser session and sign-in to the Azure portal menu.

  2. In the search box at the top of the portal, type log analytics workspaces. Select Log Analytics workspaces in the search results.

  3. On the Log Analytics workspaces page, select + Create.

  4. On the Basics page of Create Log Analytics workspace, enter or select this information:

    Setting Value
    Project details  
    Subscription Select your subscription.
    Resource group Enter az-rg-1.
    Instance details  
    Name Enter azwrkspc1a.
    Region Select East US.
  5. Select the Review + create tab at the bottom of the page.

  6. Select Create.

Results: You have created a Log Analytics workspace, to collect data from Azure reources.