Log Analytics workspace in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Create an Azure Log Analytics Workspace

📖 Scenario: You are setting up monitoring for your cloud resources. To collect and analyze logs, you need to create a Log Analytics workspace in Azure.

🎯 Goal: Build an Azure Log Analytics workspace using Infrastructure as Code with exact configuration values.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a resource group named monitoring-rg

Create a Log Analytics workspace named monitoring-workspace

Set the workspace location to eastus

Set the workspace SKU to PerGB2018

Enable retention of logs for 30 days

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Log Analytics workspaces collect and analyze logs from Azure resources, helping teams monitor and troubleshoot cloud environments.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals often create and manage Log Analytics workspaces to enable centralized logging and monitoring.

1

Create the resource group

Create a resource group named monitoring-rg in the eastus location.

Azure

# Your code here to create resource group monitoring-rg in eastus

Need a hint?

Use the azurerm_resource_group resource with the exact name monitoring_rg.

2

Define the Log Analytics workspace configuration

Create a variable called workspace_name and set it to monitoring-workspace.

Azure

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "monitoring_rg" {
  name     = "monitoring-rg"
  location = "eastus"
}

# Define workspace_name variable
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a Terraform variable named workspace_name with the default value monitoring-workspace.

3

Create the Log Analytics workspace resource

Create an azurerm_log_analytics_workspace resource named log_analytics using the resource group monitoring_rg, workspace name from var.workspace_name, location eastus, SKU PerGB2018, and retention in days set to 30.

Azure

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "monitoring_rg" {
  name     = "monitoring-rg"
  location = "eastus"
}

variable "workspace_name" {
  default = "monitoring-workspace"
}

# Create Log Analytics workspace resource
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the azurerm_log_analytics_workspace resource with the exact name log_analytics.

4

Finalize the Log Analytics workspace configuration

Add the tags block to the azurerm_log_analytics_workspace resource with a tag environment set to production.

Azure

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "monitoring_rg" {
  name     = "monitoring-rg"
  location = "eastus"
}

variable "workspace_name" {
  default = "monitoring-workspace"
}

resource "azurerm_log_analytics_workspace" "log_analytics" {
  name                = var.workspace_name
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.monitoring_rg.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.monitoring_rg.name
  sku                 = "PerGB2018"
  retention_in_days   = 30

  # Add tags block here
  # Your code here
}

Need a hint?

Add a tags block inside the workspace resource with the key environment and value production.