title | description | author | ms.reviewer | ms.service | ms.subservice | ms.topic | ms.date | ms.author |
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Find a reservation purchaser from Azure Monitor logs |
This article helps find a reservation purchaser with information from Azure Monitor logs. |
bandersmsft |
primittal |
cost-management-billing |
reservations |
troubleshooting |
11/17/2023 |
banders |
This article helps find a reservation purchaser with information from your directory logs. The directory logs from Azure Monitor shows the email IDs of users that made reservation purchases.
- Sign in to the Azure portal.
- Navigate to Monitor > Activity Log > Activity.
:::image type="content" source="./media/find-reservation-purchaser-from-logs/activity-log-activity.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing navigation to Activity log - Activity." lightbox="./media/find-reservation-purchaser-from-logs/activity-log-activity.png" ::: - Select Directory Activity. If you see a message stating You need permission to view directory-level logs, select the link to learn how to get permissions.
:::image type="content" source="./media/find-reservation-purchaser-from-logs/directory-activity-no-permission.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing Directory Activity without permission to view the log." lightbox="./media/find-reservation-purchaser-from-logs/directory-activity-no-permission.png" ::: - Once you have permission, filter Tenant Resource Provider with Microsoft.Capacity. You should see all reservation-related events for the selected time span. If needed, change the time span.
:::image type="content" source="./media/find-reservation-purchaser-from-logs/user-that-purchased-reservation.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the user that purchased the reservation." lightbox="./media/find-reservation-purchaser-from-logs/user-that-purchased-reservation.png" ::: If necessary, you might need to Edit columns to select Event initiated by. The user who made the reservation purchase is shown under Event initiated by.
- If needed, billing administrators can take ownership of a reservation.