# Azure NSG Flow Logs Past End-of-Life | ZopNight

> Azure is retiring NSG flow logs and deletes them on the retirement date, logging on or off. The fix: migrate the flow log to virtual network flow logs.

Source: https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-nsg-flow-logs-past-end-of-life

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_Compliance · Medium severity_

## Azure NSG Flow Logs Past End-of-Life

Azure is retiring NSG flow logs and deletes them on the retirement date, logging on or off. Move to virtual network flow logs before then, or the record stops.

- Azure — provider
- Medium — severity
- Compliance — where it shows up
- Manual — fix, steps written out

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## Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

- 01. Detect — ZopNight checks this automatically across Azure, with read-only access to the account.
- 02. Explain — Every finding says exactly what to change: Migrate the flow log to virtual network flow logs.
- 03. Fix — The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

- applies_to_fallback: Any resource in the account
- where_it_appears: The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.

## Related

- [Azure Duplicate Flow Logging](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-duplicate-flow-logging)
- [Azure Flow Log on a Gateway Subnet](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-flow-log-on-a-gateway-subnet)
- [Azure Traffic Analytics on the 10-Minute Interval](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-traffic-analytics-on-the-10-minute-interval)
- [ACM Certificate Expiring Soon](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/acm-certificate-expiring-soon)
- [AKS Cluster RBAC Not Enabled](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/aks-cluster-rbac-not-enabled)
- [Azure NSG Open to Internet](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-nsg-open-to-internet)

## See the compliance findings in your account.

Connect a read-only role and the first pass runs on your own estate. This check, and the rest of the catalogue, with it.

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