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Monitor Storage for Security Events with Azure Monitor

The Azure Monitor Logs feature of Azure Monitor collects, stores, and organizes log and performance data from monitored resources. In this lab, you will enable diagnostic settings on a storage account to send Blob storage logs to a Log Analytics workspace. You will also use Azure Monitor Logs to query for anonymous access to blobs and create an Azure Monitor alert to notify you when anonymous access to a storage account is logged.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Published
Clock icon Nov 19, 2021

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Configure Diagnostic Settings

    • Configure diagnostic settings on the existing storage account to send Blob service logs to the existing Log Analytics workspace for the following categories:
      • Storage Read
      • Storage Write
      • Storage Delete

  2. Challenge

    Perform Anonymous Access

    IMPORTANT: Do not upload a file that contains confidential or private information.

    • Upload a test file to the data container and access the file anonymously.

  3. Challenge

    Query Azure Monitor Logs

    • Write a query using Azure Monitor Log Analytics to determine if anonymous access has been recorded against the storage account: 
      StorageBlobLogs
| where AuthenticationType == 'Anonymous' and StatusCode == 200

  4. Challenge

    Create an Azure Monitor Alert

    1. Use Azure Monitor alerts to create an alert for anonymous access. Name the alert Anonymous Blob Access.
    2. Access the test file anonymously again.
    3. View the alert in Azure Monitor.
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