KB: Azure VMware Solution - Parse vmwaresyslog from storage account export

calendar Apr 8, 2022  · 1 min read  ·
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When you configure an AVS (Azure VMware Solution) logs export to a Storage Account, the logs are encapsulated in a JSON wrapping.

1tail PT1H.json | jq

 1{
 2  "message": "2022-04-07T13:59:59.685Z esx07-r07.p01.westeurope.avs.azure.com VSANMGMTSVC: info vsand[2103808] [opID=Thread-2 VsanInternalSystem::get_diskdata] Get local host UUID 60d101eb-dfb2-ec4a-1d65-98039b92960e",
 3  "resourceId": "/SUBSCRIPTIONS/B1E061C8-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-1241FD840A48/RESOURCEGROUPS/TEST-RG/PROVIDERS/MICROSOFT.AVS/PRIVATECLOUDS/TESTAVS001",
 4  "operationName": "Microsoft.AVS/vcenter/vmwaresyslog",
 5  "category": "vmwaresyslog",
 6  "properties": "{}"
 7}
 8{
 9  "message": "2022-04-07T13:59:59.685Z esx07-r07.p01.westeurope.avs.azure.com VSANMGMTSVC: info vsand[2103808] [opID=Thread-2 VsanInternalSystem::get_diskdata] get_diskdata took 0.004s",
10  "resourceId": "/SUBSCRIPTIONS/B1E061C8-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-1241FD840A48/RESOURCEGROUPS/TEST-RG/PROVIDERS/MICROSOFT.AVS/PRIVATECLOUDS/TESTAVS001",
11  "operationName": "Microsoft.AVS/vcenter/vmwaresyslog",
12  "category": "vmwaresyslog",
13  "properties": "{}"
14}

This could be difficult to read from a command line but you can easly unwrap the syslog formated message by using jq:

1tail PT1H.json | jq ".message" |sed 's/^\"\(.*\)\"$/\1/'
2# Output
32022-04-07T13:59:59Z esx07-r07.p01.westeurope.avs.azure.com nsx-proxy: NSX 2105074 - [nsx@6876 comp=\"nsx-esx\" subcomp=\"nsx-proxy\" s2comp=\"mpa-proxy-lib\" tid=\"2105123\" level=\"INFO\"] ForwardingEngine: Processing SignalEvent(IDLE)
42022-04-07T13:59:59Z esx07-r07.p01.westeurope.avs.azure.com nsx-proxy: NSX 2105074 - [nsx@6876 comp=\"nsx-esx\" subcomp=\"nsx-proxy\" s2comp=\"mpa-proxy-lib\" tid=\"2105123\" level=\"INFO\"] Idle event during ready

jq will only provide the content of the message attribute for each JSON item and sed will remove the front and trailing double quotes.