Azure-docs: How to just get raw data?

[tdevopsottawa]

All this stuff with fancy queries.. is there a way to just get the raw log data, spat out into text? As in, get the exact same output I would get it if I just ran 'cat' on the stdout of the service itself. This is a very basic use case yet I can't find any way to do this with Azure.

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• ID: 82c1f2f2-da35-02b0-b59d-1e1f4d982904
• Version Independent ID: f27d9109-3172-7425-d201-82146d9216c2
• Content: Analyze log data in Azure Monitor
• Content Source: articles/azure-monitor/log-query/log-query-overview.md
• Service: log-analytics
• GitHub Login: @bwren
• Microsoft Alias: bwren

[femsulu]

@sshorkey Thanks for the Comment. We are actively investigating and will get back to you soon.

[femsulu]

@bwren, is there a standard query for the above? Couldn't find any query samples to share.

[bwren]

@sshorkey The only way to retrieve data from Logs is from a log query, but a log query can be as simple as a single table like Event. Export results to CSV or Excel. I'm not sure what the use case would be dump the entire set of collected logs.

[femsulu]

thanks for the update @bwren.
@sshorkey hope this answers your question. we will now close this issue but don't hesitate to reply if needed.

[tdevopsottawa]

@sshorkey The only way to retrieve data from Logs is from a log query, but a log query can be as simple as a single table like Event. Export results to CSV or Excel. I'm not sure what the use case would be dump the entire set of collected logs.

Use case would be for simplicity's sake... having to type a query and export to Excel and open Excel is a lot of steps compared to the "old fashioned" way of getting logs--just running "cat" on a terminal. I get that this is not supported, but it would be something I think you guys should look at. At the moment the current logging solution is overcomplicating.