Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Overview
A look at Azure Data Explorer (ADX) as a great service to ingest all your time series data and then get great insight from it.
Topic in this Video
0:00 - Introduction and needs
4:25 - ADX overview
7:20 - When to use ADX
13:36 - Details of ADX cluster
16:19 - Data management
18:28 - Engine
27:42 - Load balancers
28:30 - Cold storage
32:50 - Networking options
37:49 - Databases
41:04 - Ingestion
50:00 - External tables
52:40 - Getting started and free options
56:34 - Summary
57:21 - Be a detective
Whiteboard
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What is Azure Data Explorer?
Azure Data Explorer is a fully managed, high-performance, big data analytics platform that makes it easy to analyze high volumes of data in near real time. The Azure Data Explorer toolbox gives you an end-to-end solution for data ingestion, query, visualization, and management.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/data-explorer/data-explorer-overview
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Data formats supported by Azure Data Explorer for ingestion
Data ingestion is the process by which data is added to a table and is made available for query in Azure Data Explorer. For all ingestion methods, other than ingest-from-query, the data must be in one of the supported formats. The following table lists and describes the formats that Azure Data Explorer supports for data ingestion.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/data-explorer/ingestion-supported-formats