The Activity Log Exported Before Azure Forgets It, All Eight Categories
The subscription's Activity Log exported to a Log Analytics workspace, a storage account and/or an Event Hub, because Azure keeps it for ninety days and then forgets. All eight categories go; dropping Administrative, Security or Policy, the three an investigation asks for, is accepted by name. The workspace's retention is the workspace's setting; the years live in the storage account.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- No applicable security policies for this provider
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
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Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-14 · how we verify
Use it from the registry
terraform · opentofumodule "activity_log" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/azure-activity-log/azure"
version = "1.0.0"
}Needs a registry token from /account/tokens. The module itself is free; the account is what identifies you. Full setup: registry docs.
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Documentation
azure-activity-log
The subscription's Activity Log exported to a Log Analytics workspace,
a storage account and/or an Event Hub. Works with Terraform and
OpenTofu (>= 1.6), azurerm provider >= 4.0, < 5.0.
The Activity Log keeps ninety days and then forgets; the export is what keeps it.
All eight categories are exported; dropping Administrative, Security or Policy has to be accepted by name.
The workspace's retention is the workspace's setting; the years live in the storage account.
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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