Introducing Azure DevOps Audit Stream

This post introduces the Azure DevOps Audit Stream feature, currently in public preview. It explains how to stream audit data to external services like Azure Event Grid, Azure Monitor Logs, and Splunk, enabling advanced processing, alerting, anomaly detection, and longer retention than the default 90 days. The article provides a detailed walkthrough of setting up an audit stream to Azure Event Grid, including creating an Event Grid Topic, configuring Azure DevOps Stream settings, setting up a Storage Account Queue with Managed Identity, and configuring the Event Grid Subscription. It demonstrates monitoring the incoming audit stream data.