Category of Activity log entries covering every create, update, delete and action call made via Resource Manager, for example adding a tag, attaching a disk or creating a resource group.
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Terms in this definition
- Activity log
Record, held for 90 days, of control-plane operations in a subscription such as deployments and Policy events. Data-plane actions, Key Vault reads for example, are not captured.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- Tag
Key-value label on compute (for cost tracking) or on a Unity Catalog securable or column, applied with
SET TAGorSET TAGSand requiringAPPLY TAG. Governed tags restrict allowed keys, values and assigners across the account. - Resource group
Container for Azure resources. Its location holds only metadata and cannot be changed afterwards, and one resource group cannot sit inside another.
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