Bruno Gabrielli connects Azure Montor to SQL Server Audit:
Today I am going to cover an interesting aspect on how to capture security audit events from both Azure and non-Azure SQL Server machines. Most of you probably know that SQL Server is capable of auditing security related information, such as access to a given database, record creation or deletion, configuration change and so on) according to the Audit configuration applied to a given instance or database.
In this post, we will not dig into SQL Server Audit configuration or capability. We will rather explore the steps and configurations necessary to collect data using Azure Monitor.
Read on for the process. You will need the appropriate agent for this, but that agent doesn’t necessitate that your machine be in Azure.