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Format of logs archived to storage through Azure Monitor to change

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Christoph Petersen
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If you are archiving diagnostic logs or activity logs to a storage account through Azure Monitor be aware that on Nov 1, 2018 there will be a breaking change in the format.

The current format of the PT1H.json file in the storage account uses a JSON array or records. This looks something like:

{
    "records": [
        {
            "time": "2016-01-05T01:32:01.2691226Z"
        },
        {
            "time": "2016-01-05T01:33:56.5264523Z"
        }
    ]
}

The blob format will be change to JSON lines. This means each record will be delimited by a newline, with no outer records array and no commas between JSON records:

{"time": "2016-01-05T01:32:01.2691226Z"}
{"time": "2016-01-05T01:33:56.5264523Z"}

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Please review the documentation on how to find out if you are affected by this change and how to mitigate.

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