Mine your Azure backup data, it could save you 💰💡
Your data has a story to tell. Mine it, decipher it, and turn it into actionable outcomes. 📊🔍 Azure backups can become orphaned in several ways (I'll dive into that in a future post). But here’s a key point: orphaned doesn’t always mean useless, hence the word “Potential” in the title of my Power BI report. Each workload needs to be assessed individually. If a backup is no longer needed, you might be paying for it - unnecessarily and unknowingly. 🕵️♂️💸 To uncover these hidden costs, I combined data from the Azure Business Continuity Center with a PowerShell script I wrote to extract LastBackupTime and other metadata. This forms the foundation of my report, helping visualize and track backup usage over time. This approach helped me identify forgotten one-time backups, VMs deleted without stopping the backup, workloads excluded due to policy changes, and backups left behind after resource migrations. If you delete unneeded backups and have soft-delete enabled, the backup size drops to zero and Azure stops charging for it. ✅🧹 💡 Do your Azure backups have their own untold story to tell? 📸 Here's a snapshot of my report that helped me uncover these insights 👇
Getting started on Azure
I work with large dataset and I am just getting started on learning Azure. I am famaliar with Python and Powerbi. I am planning to integrate Synapse and Databricks for anaalytics and visualisation using Powerbi. What books do you recommend for me to understand these modules?
PowerBI Template for Azure (Activity Log Analytics) for free
Hi all Unfortunately, there is no PowerBI techcommunity (or I wasn't able to find it), that's why Im asking here my question. Is there a simple PowerBI Template (for free), which makes possible, to display basic information about the Azure Subcription like: what kind of ressource groups are created actual coast's of the ressource groups members of this ressource group services of this ressource group My researches show me that there is "https://powerbi.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/azure-activity-log-solution-template/" which seems to be nice but it's for our environment too much. It requires some Azure Services to make it functionally. So maybe there is a PowerBI template, which is an alternative or free edition of "Azure Activity Log Analytics", with less functions. Do you have a recommendation for me? Thanks.
