Workspaces - Failover

Service:: Log Analytics

API Version:: 2025-02-01

Activates failover for the specified workspace.

The specified replication location must match the location of the enabled replication for this workspace. The failover operation is asynchronous and can take up to 30 minutes to complete. The status of the operation can be checked using the operationId returned in the response.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.OperationalInsights/locations/{location}/workspaces/{workspaceName}/failover?api-version=2025-02-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
location	path	True	string minLength: 1	The name of the Azure region.
resourceGroupName	path	True	string minLength: 1 maxLength: 90	The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
subscriptionId	path	True	string (uuid)	The ID of the target subscription. The value must be an UUID.
workspaceName	path	True	string minLength: 4 maxLength: 63 pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]+[A-Za-z0-9]$	The name of the workspace.
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name

Type

Description

202 Accepted

Accepted response definition (Long running operation).

Headers

Location: string
azure-asyncoperation: string

Other Status Codes

Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

WorkspacesFailover

Sample request

HTTP
dotnet

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/53bc36c5-91e1-4d09-92c9-63b89e571926/resourceGroups/oiautorest6685/providers/Microsoft.OperationalInsights/locations/eastus/workspaces/oiautorest6685/failover?api-version=2025-02-01

using Azure;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Resources;
using Azure.ResourceManager.OperationalInsights;

// Generated from example definition: specification/operationalinsights/resource-manager/Microsoft.OperationalInsights/stable/2025-02-01/examples/WorkspacesFailover.json
// this example is just showing the usage of "Workspaces_Failover" operation, for the dependent resources, they will have to be created separately.

// get your azure access token, for more details of how Azure SDK get your access token, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/sdk/authentication?tabs=command-line
TokenCredential cred = new DefaultAzureCredential();
// authenticate your client
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(cred);

// this example assumes you already have this ResourceGroupResource created on azure
// for more information of creating ResourceGroupResource, please refer to the document of ResourceGroupResource
string subscriptionId = "53bc36c5-91e1-4d09-92c9-63b89e571926";
string resourceGroupName = "oiautorest6685";
ResourceIdentifier resourceGroupResourceId = ResourceGroupResource.CreateResourceIdentifier(subscriptionId, resourceGroupName);
ResourceGroupResource resourceGroupResource = client.GetResourceGroupResource(resourceGroupResourceId);

// invoke the operation
AzureLocation location = new AzureLocation("eastus");
string workspaceName = "oiautorest6685";
await resourceGroupResource.FailoverWorkspaceAsync(WaitUntil.Completed, location, workspaceName);

Console.WriteLine("Succeeded");

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample response

Status code:: 202

Location: https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/53bc36c5-91e1-4d09-92c9-63b89e571926/resourceGroups/oiautorest6685/providers/Microsoft.OperationalInsights/locations/eastus/workspaces/oiautorest6685/operationresults/c0f02ffd-0d4e-491e-a10c-fb82a1543a77?api-version=2025-02-01
Azure-AsyncOperation: https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/53bc36c5-91e1-4d09-92c9-63b89e571926/providers/Microsoft.OperationalInsights/locations/eastus/operationstatuses/c0f02ffd-0d4e-491e-a10c-fb82a1543a77?api-version=2025-02-01

Definitions

Name	Description
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.