Exploring a data set with Kusto

We discussed Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and its query language Kusto in a past article.

In this article, I would like to look at a simple exploration scenario.

We’ll download csv files from the web, put them in an Azure Storage Account and from there, we’ll do everything in Azure Data Explorer and...

Monitoring query performance in Cosmos DB

A common question with Cosmos DB is: how many Request Units (RUs) should I be using?

Although it’s easy to quickly guess what you need to start, it’s not so trivial to determine exactly what is needed.

My general advice (with Cosmos DB & other DB as a service) is to provision something...

Impersonating user in ADLS with Kusto

We discussed Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and its query language Kusto in a past article.

In this article I wanted to show how to access an ADLS gen 2 using user impersonation, i.e. using the identity of the user running the queries to access the storage.

It would be all trivial and boring...

Broadcasting events to multiple solutions

I sat down with a customer who had an interesting integration problem the other day.

They are building a system that creates data useful for the entire enterprise. They want to push that data to different solutions. They also expose APIs, but they want to support the push-model where their system pushes the data...

Azure Data Explorer (Kusto)

Let’s talk about Azure Data Explorer (ADX ) also known as Kusto.

If you ask me that is the best kept secret in Azure.

Well, it isn’t exactly a secret but most people do not know about it or if they do, they just think of it as the back-end...