Why does Azure logging disable itself every 12 hours?

Question

Why does Azure have this ridiculous behavior ? If a customer encounters an error, I can't ask them to repeat it after I go turn the logging back on.

Answer 1

That is true when you are using the default filesystem for logging. If you set up a storage account and then enable logging you can choose if the logs are sent to the file system or storage.

Take a look at this article under How to Enable Diagnostics

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-enable-diagnostic-log/