Data Connections in Azure Data Explorer (Kusto)
Introduction Data movement from one source to another source is a common use case in general we usually see due to different reasons. Example: let’s say that we want to do some analytics/aggregations on the data where in Kusto is one of the best technologies in Azure which helps in performing wide range of analytics. However your source data is either streaming data or may be stored in some other sources like CosmosDB/Storage Account blob. We can think of using the Azure Data Factory (ADF) for moving the data but however it comes with additional implementation of pipelines and maintenance and monitoring. Question : So how do we move the data from sources (Cosmos DB/Storage Account Blob/Event Hubs/ IOT Hubs) to Kusto without having to do any implementation/maintenance. ? Answer : Data Connections in Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) provides the capability to perform the movement with almost zero or minimal efforts involved in setting up data connection. Dat...