Route Media Services Azure Monitor metrics to storage

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Warning

Azure Media Services will be retired June 30th, 2024. For more information, see the AMS Retirement Guide.

Azure Monitor enables you to monitor metrics that help you understand how your applications are performing.

This article shows you how to route data to the storage account and then view the data.

Prerequisites

Store Media Services metrics using the portal

  1. Log in to the Azure portal.
  2. Navigate to the Media Services account you want to work with.
  3. Select Diagnostic Settings under Monitor. Here you see a list of all resources in your subscription that produce monitoring data through Azure Monitor.
  4. Select Add diagnostic setting. A resource diagnostic setting is a definition of what monitoring data should be routed from a particular resource and where that monitoring data should go.
  5. In the section that appears, give your setting a name and check the box for Archive to a storage account.
  6. Select the storage account to which you want to send logs and press OK.
  7. Check all the boxes under Log and Metric. Depending on the resource type, you may only have one of these options. These checkboxes control what categories of log and metric data available for that resource type are sent to the destination you've selected, in this case, a storage account.
  8. Set the Retention (days) slider to 30. This slider sets a number of days to retain the monitoring data in the storage account. Azure Monitor automatically deletes data older than the number of days specified. A retention of zero days stores the data indefinitely.
  9. Select Save.

You may need to wait up to five minutes before the event appears in the storage account.

  1. In the portal, navigate to the Storage Accounts section by finding it on the left-hand navigation bar.
  2. Identify the storage account you created in the preceding section and click on it.
  3. Select Blobs, then on the container labeled insights-logs-keydeliveryrequests. This is the container that has your logs in it. Monitoring data is broken out into containers by resource ID, then by date and time.
  4. Navigate to the PT1H.json file by selecting a container for resource ID, date, and time.
  5. Select the PT1H.json file and click Download.

You can now view the JSON event that was stored in the storage account.