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Copper Contributor

Nov 17, 2018

No Usage Data

I've been using Azure Log Analytics in Azure Government for a couple weeks now, and while most of the solutions work great, I am seeing no usage data at all. The usage and estimated costs blade shows ...

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Ryan Means

Copper Contributor

Nov 19, 2018

Dale,

Thanks for the quick response on this. Is there any other way for me to know what my usage is? I don't want my next bill to be a surprise, and there must be some way for Microsoft to know how much data I'm using if they are planning to bill me for it. ;)

Ryan

Dale Koetke

Microsoft

Nov 19, 2018

Hi Ryan,

You can see count of events ingested, use

union withsource = tt * | summarize count()

And I’ve found that typical events are a bit less than 1k in size so at least you can do a rough estimate of you ingested data volume and hence your cost.

Thanks

Dale