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List and download Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server logs by using the Azure CLI

This article shows you how to list and download Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server logs using Azure CLI.

Prerequisites

This article requires that you're running the Azure CLI version 2.39.0 or later locally. To see the version installed, run the az --version command. If you need to install or upgrade, see Install Azure CLI.

You need to sign in to your account using the az login command. Note the id property, which refers to Subscription ID for your Azure account.

az login

Select the specific subscription under your account using az account set command. Make a note of the id value from the az login output to use as the value for subscription argument in the command. If you have multiple subscriptions, choose the appropriate subscription in which the resource should be billed. To get all your subscription, use az account list.

az account set --subscription <subscription id>

List server logs using Azure CLI

After you configure the prerequisites and connect to your subscription, run the following command to list the server logs from your Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server instance. Here are the details for the command output.

az mysql flexible-server server-logs list --resource-group <myresourcegroup> --server-name <serverlogdemo> --out <table>

Here are the details for the above command

LastModifiedTime Name ResourceGroup SizeInKb TypePropertiesType Url
2022-08-01T11:09:48+00:00 mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022073111.log myresourcegroup 10947 slowlog https://00000000000.file.core.windows.net/0000000serverlog/slowlogs/mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022073111.log?
2022-08-02T11:10:00+00:00 mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022080111.log myresourcegroup 10927 slowlog https://00000000000.file.core.windows.net/0000000serverlog/slowlogs/mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022080111.log?
2022-08-03T11:10:12+00:00 mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022080211.log myresourcegroup 10936 slowlog https://00000000000.file.core.windows.net/0000000serverlog/slowlogs/mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022080211.log?
2022-08-03T11:12:00+00:00 mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022080311.log myresourcegroup 8920 slowlog https://00000000000.file.core.windows.net/0000000serverlog/slowlogs/mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022080311.log?

The list shows the LastModifiedTime, Name, ResourceGroup, SizeInKb, and download URL for the available server logs. The default LastModifiedTime is set to 72 hours. To list files older than 72 hours, use the --file-last-written <Time:HH> flag.

az mysql flexible-server server-logs list --resource-group <myresourcegroup>  --server-name <serverlogdemo> --out table --file-last-written <144>

Download server logs using Azure CLI

The following command downloads the preceding server logs to your current directory.

az mysql flexible-server server-logs download --resource-group <myresourcegroup> --server-name <serverlogdemo>  --name <mysql-slow-serverlogdemo-2022073111.log>