Today on Azure Friday: Azure Cosmos DB: Get the Most Out of Provisioned Throughput

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database with limitless elastic scale. To take advantage of elastic scale, you first need to choose a partition key. Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott Hanselman about the choice of partition key, and how to use the new metrics charts to troubleshoot a poor partition key choice (e.g., "hot partitions").

 

 

For more information, see:

• Try Azure Cosmos DB
• How to partition and scale in Azure Cosmos DB (docs)
• Monitor Azure Cosmos DB requests, usage, and storage (docs)
• Request Units in Azure Cosmos DB (docs)