Autoscale

Autoscale Overview:

The Autoscale category in the Azure Activity Log records events related to the operation of the autoscale engine based on your defined settings. This includes actions like scaling up or down instances automatically based on time or load metrics. Events such as "Autoscale scale up action failed" are logged here, capturing both successful and failed scaling actions.

Schema:

Element Name	Description
caller	Always Microsoft.Insights/autoscaleSettings
channels	Always “Admin, Operation”
claims	JSON blob with the SPN (service principal name), or resource type, of the autoscale engine.
correlationId	A GUID in the string format.
description	Static text description of the autoscale event.
eventDataId	Unique identifier of the autoscale event.
level	Severity level of the event.
resourceGroupName	Name of the resource group for the autoscale setting.
resourceProviderName	Name of the resource provider for the autoscale setting.
resourceId	Resource ID of the autoscale setting.
operationId	A GUID shared among the events that correspond to a single operation.
operationName	Name of the operation.
properties	Set of <Key, Value> pairs (that is, a Dictionary) describing the details of the event.
properties.Description	Detailed description of what the autoscale engine was doing.
properties.ResourceName	Resource ID of the impacted resource (the resource on which the scale action was being performed)
properties.OldInstancesCount	The number of instances before the autoscale action took effect.
properties.NewInstancesCount	The number of instances after the autoscale action took effect.
properties.LastScaleActionTime	The timestamp of when the autoscale action occurred.
status	String describing the status of the operation. Some common values are: Started, In Progress, Succeeded, Failed, Active, Resolved.
subStatus	Usually null for autoscale.
eventTimestamp	Timestamp when the event was generated by the Azure service processing the request corresponding the event.
submissionTimestamp	Timestamp when the event became available for querying.
subscriptionId	Azure Subscription ID.