Monitor Azure Storage Account activity

Collect logs

There’s multiple good reasons to enable logging for your Storage Accounts. One of them is to figure out if a Storage Account is still being accessed or to monitor connection sources. If you want access to this information you need to enable logging. If you don’t have a Log Analytics Workspace yet; create one.

The script below enables logging for all Storage Accounts in the target Subscription. If you only want to enable it for a single Resource you’re free to tweak it.

## Enable Storage Account logs to law for each account in a single subscription. 

$storageAccounts = Get-AzStorageAccount
$WorkspaceId = "ResourceID" ## Resource ID of the Log Analytics Workspace
$DiagnosticSettingName = "Storage Logs"

Foreach ($StorageAccount in $storageAccounts) {
    $ResourceId = $StorageAccount.Id
    $metric = New-AzDiagnosticDetailSetting -Metric -RetentionEnabled -Category AllMetrics -Enabled
    $setting = New-AzDiagnosticSetting -Name $DiagnosticSettingName -ResourceId $ResourceId -WorkspaceId $WorkspaceId -Setting $metric
    Set-AzDiagnosticSetting -InputObject $setting

    $metric = New-AzDiagnosticDetailSetting -Metric -RetentionEnabled -Category AllMetrics -Enabled
    $readlog = New-AzDiagnosticDetailSetting -Log -RetentionEnabled -Category StorageRead -Enabled
    $writelog = New-AzDiagnosticDetailSetting -Log -RetentionEnabled -Category StorageWrite -Enabled
    $deletelog = New-AzDiagnosticDetailSetting -Log -RetentionEnabled -Category StorageDelete -Enabled
    $Ids = @($ResourceId + "/blobServices/default"
            $ResourceId + "/fileServices/default"
            $ResourceId + "/queueServices/default"
            $ResourceId + "/tableServices/default"
    )
    $Ids | ForEach-Object {
        $setting = New-AzDiagnosticSetting -Name $DiagnosticSettingName -ResourceId $_ -WorkspaceId $WorkspaceId -Setting $metric,$readlog,$writelog,$deletelog
        Set-AzDiagnosticSetting -InputObject $setting
    }
}

Read the logs

Open the Log Analytics Workspace that you used to store the logs and select Logs.
You can use KQL to collect data. I use the query in below example to monitor authentication methods and sources.

StorageBlobLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(30d)
| summarize any(AccountName) by Protocol, AuthenticationType, TlsVersion, CallerIpAddress, ServiceType

Result

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