Azure Data Explorer Analyzes Streaming Data

• Azure Data Explorer is a service that helps analyze large amounts of data from sources such as Web logs and IoT devices in near real time.
• The service could support monitoring, reporting, and machine learning.
• The service overlaps with other Azure data analytics services, but it offers more flexibility.
• Costs for the service can quickly accumulate.

Azure Data Explorer can help customers manage and analyze large data streams (on the order of terabytes per day) to discover insights in near real time and create custom applications that work with the data. The service underpins several higher-level Azure services for data analytics, but it offers more choices for handling data ingestion, scaling, querying, visualization, and programmatic access. However, working with Azure Data Explorer can require more effort than higher-level services that build upon it.

Why Azure Data Explorer?

Organizations that work with large-scale data streams produced by sources such as Web and line-of-business applications and Internet of Things (IoT) devices can use Azure Data Explorer for purposes that include the following: