The posts below include examples and practices which combine the rich query and data management capabilities of Kusto (Azure Data Explorer). They will provide you with real-life best practices and methodologies, which have all been repeatedly proven in large-scale production environments, and will help you make sure you make the most out of your Kusto cluster.

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Posts

Queries

• Just another Kusto hacker (JAKH)

• Analyzing Uber rides history

• Analyzing Spotify streaming history

• Analyzing 2 billion New York city taxi rides

Cluster & Data management

• Workload groups

• Follower clusters

• Data partitioning

• Ingesting 2 billion New York city taxi rides into

• Update policies for ELT

• Filtering on datetime columns can save you time

• Specifying metadata at ingestion time

• Advanced data management

  • Committing multiple bulks of data in a single transaction
  • Back-filling data

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Wait, let’s start over - what is Kusto (Azure Data Explorer)?

See it in action

Start off with a couple of videos, and customer stories.

Learn more

There’s a lot to learn and read about. Find a helpful list of references here.

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