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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By : Patrik Borosch
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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By: Patrik Borosch

Overview of this book

Azure Data Lake, the modern data warehouse architecture, and related data services on Azure enable organizations to build their own customized analytical platform to fit any analytical requirements in terms of volume, speed, and quality. This book is your guide to learning all the features and capabilities of Azure data services for storing, processing, and analyzing data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) of any size. You will explore key techniques for ingesting and storing data and perform batch, streaming, and interactive analytics. The book also shows you how to overcome various challenges and complexities relating to productivity and scaling. Next, you will be able to develop and run massive data workloads to perform different actions. Using a cloud-based big data-modern data warehouse-analytics setup, you will also be able to build secure, scalable data estates for enterprises. Finally, you will not only learn how to develop a data warehouse but also understand how to create enterprise-grade security and auditing big data programs. By the end of this Azure book, you will have learned how to develop a powerful and efficient analytical platform to meet enterprise needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Data Warehousing and Considerations Regarding Cloud Computing
4
Section 2: The Storage Layer
7
Section 3: Cloud-Scale Data Integration and Data Transformation
14
Section 4: Data Presentation, Dashboarding, and Distribution

Monitoring your storage account

There are different ways to keep track of your Data Lake Store on Azure. When you navigate to your storage account in the Azure portal, you will find overview charts about input and output, latency, and requests directly on the Overview blade. When you scroll down in the Navigation blade on the left, you will find more detailed views when you select Insights from the Monitoring section. You will find a subsection for Alerts, Metrics, and predefined (but configurable) Workbooks with predefined visuals for your storage account.

However, if you need deeper insights, or if you want to track who is doing what on your data lake, this is not displayed here. You might want to integrate your data lake with Azure Monitor and deep dive into the events.

Note

This feature is in preview at the time of writing. You can enroll in the preview on the Data Lake documentation page (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/monitor-blob-storage) if it...