Resources

The Resources module in Microsoft Azure configuration management enables monitoring reports on your Azure resources. Refer to the following sections for the details.

View Change Details

To view the change details between the current snapshot with the baseline, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Resources page, select a resource with recent changes detected.

  2. In the New changes detected column, click View.

  3. On the Change details page, you can view the changes information in General view and Code view.

    • General view – The section that shows the summary of role assignments within the resource.

    • Code view – The section that shows all the detailed role assignments changes within the resource in code.

    • The detailed changes information between the two snapshots will be displayed in Split view and Unified view. By default, only the changed information will be displayed. You can expand the hidden lines to view the complete code.

    • *Note: For snapshots with a large amount of code, it may not be displayed properly. You can export the YAML file to view the detailed changes.

View Snapshot Details

To view the detailed information of a snapshot and reset the baseline, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Resources page, select a resource and click View in the Snapshots column.

  2. Select an available snapshot in the dropdown list and view the following detailed information:

    • General information – The general information of the resource.

    • Role assignments – The information of role assignments in the resource.

  3. To reset the current snapshot as baseline, click Reset baseline in the upper-right corner.

    You can also reset baseline by following these steps:

    1. On the Subscriptions page, select a subscription and click Reset baseline.

    2. In the Reset baseline panel, select the snapshot that you want to reset as the baseline.

    3. Click Save.

Compare Snapshots

To view the comparison details between two snapshots, complete the following steps:

  1. On the Subscriptions page, select a subscription and click Compare.

  2. Select two snapshots that you want to compare.

  3. Click Compare, and you can view the changes information in General view and Code view.

    • General view – The section that shows the summary of role assignments within the resource.

    • Code view – The section that shows all the detailed role assignments changes within the resource in code.

    • The detailed changes information between the two snapshots will be displayed in Split view and Unified view. By default, only the changed information will be displayed. You can expand the hidden lines to view the complete code.

    • *Note: For snapshots with a large amount of code, it may not be displayed properly. You can export the YAML file to view the detailed changes.