Logging and Tracing in Container Apps Is Still Immature

Container Apps are great for compute. But the observability story is rough. Here is what works, what does not, and what we did instead. The Logs Exist, But Finding Them Is Hard Container Apps send logs to Log Analytics. That sounds good. Until you try to use it. The logs are scattered across multiple tables: ContainerAppConsoleLogs for stdout/stderr ContainerAppSystemLogs for platform events AppEnvSpringCloudGatewayLogs if you use specific add-ons We spent time writing Kusto queries just to see what our application logged. ...

October 5, 2025 · 3 min · Jose Rodriguez