Azure REST API

Owned by Roger Cruz, created
Jan 20, 2022
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Intro

Notes on how to access Azure via its REST API

Documentation

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Tips and Tidbits

 

Get Information About A Disk

 

 

Get Activity Logs

 

Example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/423773/how-to-find-disks-that-are-not-attachedused-more-t.html

#Got the token by running Connect-AzAccount and running the below code. But you can use a better approach $token = (Get-AzAccessToken).Token $subscriptionid = "<YourSUBSID>" #Getting all the disks in your Subscription $disks = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$subscriptionid/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks?api-version=2020-12-01" -Headers @{"Authorization"="Bearer $token"} #Getting the unattached disks from the above list $unattacheddisks = $disks.value | ? {$_.managedBy -eq $null } foreach ($disk in $unattacheddisks) { $resourceid = $disk.id #eventTimestamp is between 2021-05-09 to 2021-06-09 - You can generate a time stamp dynamically for smaller or a larger time span. $filter = "eventTimestamp ge '2021-05-09T17:59:08Z' and eventTimestamp le '2021-06-09T17:59:08Z' and eventChannels eq 'Admin, Operation' and resourceId eq '$resourceid' and levels eq 'Critical,Error,Warning,Informational'" #Getting the Activity logs.This is the preview API $log= Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/ $subscriptionid/providers/microsoft.insights/eventtypes/management/values?api-version=2017-03-01-preview&`$filter=$filter" -Headers @{"Authorization"="Bearer $token"} #if there is no log returned - no activity if($log.value.Count -eq 0 ) { Write-Host $disk.name + " : - There is no activitiy in 30 days" -ForegroundColor Yello } else { Write-Host $disk.name + " : - There is activitiy in 30 days" -ForegroundColor Green } }