Combine Azure Log Analytics with an AKS Cluster

Enable AKS addon for logging #

Just like GKE (and unlike EKS), AKS comes with an integrated logging solution. All we have to do is enable one of the AKS addons. To be more precise, we’ll enable the monitoring addon. As the name indicates, the addon not only fulfills the need to collect logs, but it also handles metrics. However, we are interested just in logs. I believe that nothing beats Prometheus for metrics, especially since it integrates with HorizontalPodAutoscaler. Still, you should explore AKS metrics as well and reach your own conclusion. For now, we’ll explore only the logging part of the addon.

az aks enable-addons \
  -a monitoring \
  -n devops25-cluster \
  -g devops25-group

The output is a rather big JSON with all the information about the newly enabled monitoring addon. There’s nothing exciting about it.

It’s important to note that we could have enabled the addon when we created the cluster by adding -a monitoring ...