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Azure Data Explorer

Analyze big data streams with a fast and powerful data exploration service to reduce time to insights
Overview

About Azure Data Explorer

  • Azure Data Explorer is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time and time-series analysis on large volumes of data streams from business activities, human operations, applications, websites, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and other sources. Ask questions and iteratively explore data on the fly to improve services and products, enhance customer experiences, monitor devices, and boost operations. Quickly identify patterns, anomalies, and trends in your data. Explore new questions and get answers in minutes. Run as many queries as you need, thanks to the optimized cost structure.
  • Elastically scale to terabytes of data in minutes. Azure Data Explorer offers fast, low-latency ingestion with linear scaling that supports up to 12 Mbps per core. Apply a wide range of data ingestion methods from devices, applications, servers, and services to your specific use cases.
  • Get results from 1 billion records in less than a second without modifying the data or metadata. Continue refining your queries until you’ve completed your analysis. Query large amounts of structured, semi-structured (JSON-like nested types), and unstructured (free-text) data. Search for specific text terms, locate events, and perform calculations on structured data. The intuitive query language uses Microsoft IntelliSense options and color coding to help you quickly spot patterns, trends, and anomalies. Simplify data exploration with fast text indexing, column store, and time-series operations all in one service.
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  • Create and analyze thousands of time series in seconds with near-real-time monitoring solutions and workflows. Azure Data Explorer includes native support for creation, manipulation, and analysis of multiple time series.
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  • Focus on data instead of infrastructure. This powerful, fully managed data analytics service automatically scales to meet your demands. Control costs by paying only for what you need, with no upfront costs or termination fees. Take advantage of global availability for massive scalability.
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  • Ask unlimited questions without skyrocketing costs; you pay by the hour, not by the query. You also control your storage costs. Get the best of a persistent database to automatically add data to the table, but with the flexibility to choose a retention policy based on how long you want to store the data. For persistent storage at commodity pricing, write data to Azure Blob Storage for future use.
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  • Build your own solution with interactive big data analytics built in. Azure Data Explorer is the data exploration service for Azure Monitor, Azure Time Series Insights, and Microsoft Defender. It supports REST API, MS-TDS, and Azure Resource Manager service endpoints and several client libraries.
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Features
Fast and powerful data exploration

Rapid and scalable indexing

Full-text index and column store for powerful big data analytics.

Kusto query language

Spot patterns, trends, and anomalies in rapidly changing big data with T-SQL and Python query support.

Real-time dashboards

Fully integrated advanced query experience and real-time dashboards for seamless, scalable data visualization.

Low-latency ingestion

Ingest at scale with full data lifecycle management, autoscaling, and in-place data sharing across tenants.
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Pricing

Azure Data Explorer pricing

  • No upfront cost
  • No termination fees
  • Pay only for what you use
  • Per-hour billing 

Built-in security and compliance 

Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
Customers

Customers already using Azure Data Explorer

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

  • Data Explorer is available in every Azure region.
  • Data Explorer supports log analytics, time series analytics, geospatial, sequence, and advanced analytics using Python and the Python ecosystem. Regular relational analytics are also naturally supported.
  • Yes. Many Microsoft analytics big data SaaS applications are built on Azure Data Explorer as a data platform.
  • Azure Data Explorer is now available in Microsoft Fabric Preview as a part of Real-time Analytics.
  • Kusto query language is a modern query language for effective, innovative, and powerful data exploration and querying.
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