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App Service Diagnostics and Logging Setup

📖 Scenario: You are managing a web application hosted on Azure App Service. To keep the app healthy and troubleshoot issues quickly, you need to set up diagnostics and logging.This project will guide you through enabling application logging, setting a log retention period, and viewing the logs.

🎯 Goal: Enable application diagnostics logging on an Azure App Service, configure log retention, and display the log file path.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable with the App Service name

Create a variable with the resource group name

Enable application logging to file system

Set the log retention period to 7 days

Print the path where logs are stored

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Setting up diagnostics and logging is essential for monitoring and troubleshooting web applications running on Azure App Service.

💼 Career

DevOps engineers and cloud administrators often configure logging to maintain application health and quickly resolve issues.

1

Set up App Service and Resource Group variables

Create two variables: app_service_name with the value "myappservice123" and resource_group with the value "myresourcegroup".

Azure

# Create variables for app service and resource group
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use simple assignment statements to create the variables with exact names and values.

2

Enable application logging to file system

Create a variable called enable_logging_command that contains the Azure CLI command string to enable application logging to the file system for the app service named app_service_name in the resource group resource_group.

Azure

app_service_name = "myappservice123"
resource_group = "myresourcegroup"
# Create enable_logging_command with Azure CLI command string
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use an f-string to insert the variables into the Azure CLI command that enables application logging to the file system.

3

Set log retention period to 7 days

Create a variable called set_retention_command that contains the Azure CLI command string to set the log retention period to 7 days for the app service named app_service_name in the resource group resource_group.

Azure

app_service_name = "myappservice123"
resource_group = "myresourcegroup"
enable_logging_command = f"az webapp log config --name {app_service_name} --resource-group {resource_group} --application-logging filesystem --level Information"
# Create set_retention_command with Azure CLI command string
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use an f-string to create the Azure CLI command that sets log retention to 7 days.

4

Print the log file path

Print the exact string "Logs are stored in /LogFiles/Application/" to show where the logs are saved on the App Service.

Azure

app_service_name = "myappservice123"
resource_group = "myresourcegroup"
enable_logging_command = f"az webapp log config --name {app_service_name} --resource-group {resource_group} --application-logging filesystem --level Information"
set_retention_command = f"az webapp log config --name {app_service_name} --resource-group {resource_group} --retention-days 7"
# Print the log file path below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a print statement with the exact string to show the log location.