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Small activity log retention period

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Id: ansible-azure-small-activity-log-retention-period

Provider: Azure

Platform: Ansible

Severity: Low

Category: Observability

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Description

Activity Log retention must be configured to retain logs for at least 365 days (or indefinitely). Short retention windows hinder incident response, forensic investigations, and regulatory compliance.

For Ansible azure.azcollection.azure_rm_monitorlogprofile / azure_rm_monitorlogprofile resources, the retention_policy.enabled property must be true and retention_policy.days must be set to 365 or greater, or to 0 to retain logs indefinitely. Tasks that omit retention_policy, set retention_policy.enabled to false (or no), or set retention_policy.days to a value between 1 and 364 are flagged.

Secure configuration example:

- name: Configure Activity Log retention
  azure.azcollection.azure_rm_monitorlogprofile:
    name: my-log-profile
    locations:
      - global
    categories:
      - Write
      - Delete
      - Action
    retention_policy:
      enabled: yes
      days: 365

Compliant Code Examples

- name: Create a log profile
  azure_rm_monitorlogprofile:
    name: myProfile
    location: eastus
    locations:
    - eastus
    - westus
    categories:
    - Write
    - Action
    retention_policy:
      enabled: true
      days: 380
    storage_account:
      resource_group: myResourceGroup
      name: myStorageAccount
  register: output

Non-Compliant Code Examples

---
- name: Create a log profile
  azure_rm_monitorlogprofile:
    name: myProfile
    location: eastus
    locations:
      - eastus
      - westus
    categories:
      - Write
      - Action
    retention_policy:
      enabled: False
    storage_account:
      resource_group: myResourceGroup
      name: myStorageAccount
  register: output

- name: Create a log profile2
  azure_rm_monitorlogprofile:
    name: myProfile
    location: eastus
    locations:
      - eastus
      - westus
    categories:
      - Write
      - Action
    storage_account:
      resource_group: myResourceGroup
      name: myStorageAccount
  register: output

- name: Create a log profile3
  azure_rm_monitorlogprofile:
    name: myProfile
    location: eastus
    locations:
      - eastus
      - westus
    categories:
      - Write
      - Action
    retention_policy:
      enabled: True
      days: 50
    storage_account:
      resource_group: myResourceGroup
      name: myStorageAccount
  register: output