Accessing Azure IIS logs from within the same website - azure

Question

I have an Azure website configured to write IIS logs to file system. I would like to have a dashboard page within my website where administrators can view reports about traffic on the site, which has been generated by parsing these logs.
I have tried to access the log directory in code by both DirectoryInfo.GetFiles(), and by attempting to connect over FTP using FtpLib.
From outside of Azure, I can connect to the FTP and download the logs, but from code running in the Azure website, I cannot.My assumption is that Azure does not allow outbound FTP traffic from website code.
The folder structure for Azure (by inspecting the FTP) looks something like:
Site: /site/wwwroot
Logs: /LogFiles/http/RawLogs
Within the Azure portal you can create virtual directories, but they are only allowed within /site.
Site is running as an Azure Web Site, MVC 4, Integrated pipeline, 64bit, .NET 4.5, and for FTP I am using FtpLib v1.0.1.2. FtpLib fails at Login() with message: Unknown error (0x2ee2)
I am aware that I can change the logging within Azure to log to Blob Storage, however this would result in additional monthly cost. Are there any other options to access these files?
Thanks.
Edit: Have been asked to supply code, here is the FTP version (works locally, not on Azure):
using (var ftp = new FtpConnection("XXXXXXXX.windows.net", "XXXXXXXX", "XXXXXXXX"))
{
ftp.Open();
ftp.Login(); //Fails here
ftp.SetLocalDirectory(Server.MapPath("~/")); //Temp
ftp.SetCurrentDirectory("/LogFiles/http/RawLogs");
foreach (var f in ftp.GetFiles("*.log"))
{
ftp.GetFile(f.Name, f.Name, false);
ftp.RemoveFile(f.Name);
}
}
And here is the file system version:
//var logRoot = Server.MapPath("~/../../LogFiles/http/RawLogs"); //Throws error about traversal outside of site root
//var logRoot = "/LogFiles/http/RawLogs"; //Throws error: Could not find a part of the path 'D:\LogFiles\http\RawLogs'.
var logRoot = "LogFiles/http/RawLogs"; //Throws error: Could not find a part of the path 'D:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\http\RawLogs'.
foreach (var f in new DirectoryInfo(logRoot).GetFiles("*.log"))
{
f.CopyTo(root + f.Name, true);
f.Delete();
}

Answer 1

I see the problem with paths to the log files. AzureWebsites uses C Drive, but in your implementation you are getting D Drive. Use Server.MapPath("~") and then do string manipulations on top of it to get the right ROOT Path. So Root directory will be having two more directories - LogFiles and Site. As you already got the Root directory, append it with LogFiles directory and read all files from there.