4 documented Azure Log Analytics cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.
Azure Log AnalyticsCER-0197
By default, all Log Analytics tables are created under the Analytics plan, which is optimized for high-performance querying and interactive analysis. However, not all telemetry requires real-time access or frequent querying. Some tables...
Azure Log AnalyticsCER-0422
Log Analytics workspaces default to pay-as-you-go pricing for Analytics Logs ingestion, with no minimum volume. Workspaces that grow to ingest a steady 100 GB or more per day keep paying the full per-GB rate unless someone changes the...
Azure Log AnalyticsCER-0423
Log Analytics keeps data in two states: analytics (interactive) retention, where it can be queried directly, and long-term retention, a lower-cost state from which data is retrieved with search jobs or restore. When a compliance or audit...
Azure Log AnalyticsCER-0424
The Log Analytics restore operation brings a time range of data from long-term retention (or from any Analytics table) into the hot cache as a new table ending in _RST, so that it can be queried with full KQL at high performance. It is...
