Is there any (relatively easy) ways to visualize data from Azure Table Storage in Grafana?
I tried looking for existing datasource connectors, but I didn't find anything.
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I'm new to Azure Data Explorer. Here I need to migrate the data from Azure Table Storage table data into Azure Data Explorer Cluster's Database's Table without using Azure Data Factory.
May be if able to do programatically using .NET, kindly suggest it.
Thanks in advance.
I want to integrate Azure data lake storage with Grafana for visualization of time series data. I need to know what all the tools I can use to make it possible.
I used ADF to extract data from csv files stored in data lake and move to a table in Azure data explorer. After that, I used Azure data explorer plugin in grafana to visualize the same. It worked fine. But I need to know is there any other approach which may be better or cost-effective.
Integrating Grafana with Azure Data Lake is the best option when compared to others because the other options include data movements using ADF and additional cost for Azure SQL Datawarehouse along with the cost of PowerBI.
Reason:
Grafana is a leading open source software designed for visualizing time series analytics. It is an analytics and metrics platform that enables you to query and visualize data and create and share dashboards based on those visualizations. Combining Grafana’s beautiful visualizations with Azure Data Explorer’s snappy ad hoc queries over massive amounts of data, creates impressive usage potential.
The Grafana and Azure Data Explorer teams have created a dedicated plugin which enables you to connect to and visualize data from Azure Data Explorer using its intuitive and powerful Kusto Query Language. In just a few minutes, you can unlock the potential of your data and create your first Grafana dashboard with Azure Data Explorer.
For more details on visualizing data from Azure Data Explorer in Grafana please visit our documentation, “Visualize data from Azure Data Explorer in Grafana”.
Other options:
For Azure Data Lake Gen1:
You can use a mix of services to create visual representations of data stored in Data Lake Storage Gen1.
You can start by using Azure Data Factory to move data from Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
After that, you can integrate Power BI with Azure SQL Data Warehouse to create visual representation of the data.
For Azure Data Lake Gen2:
You can use a mix of services to create visual representations of data stored in Data Lake Storage Gen2.
You can start by using Azure Data Factory to move data from Data Lake Storage Gen2 to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
After that, you can integrate Power BI with Azure SQL Data Warehouse to create visual representation of the data.
Hope this helps.
They just released a new guide. This is for Grafana 5.3
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/grafana
you are able to test this by running Grafana in a Docker container (or for real, if you want). I followed the guide, and it is working almost exactly as expected. The only issue I am having is Grafana is concatenating the column name and the data in the column, making reading and formatting tricky.
I am a new to azure.Could any one help me what is table storage in Azure and how can I do table storage deployment through VSTS?Please share your thoughts and what steps involved in this and which plugin/task I can use in VSTS to perform this?
About Azure Table storage, you can refer to this article: Azure Table storage overview.
Regarding Azure table storage with VSTS, you can manage azure tables and table entities through Azure PowerShell task.
Azure Table storage stores large amounts of structured data. The service is a NoSQL datastore which accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Azure cloud. Azure tables are ideal for storing structured, non-relational data. Common uses of Table storage include:
Storing TBs of structured data capable of serving web scale
applications
Storing datasets that don't require complex joins, foreign keys, or
stored procedures and can be denormalized for fast access
Quickly querying data using a clustered index
Accessing data using the OData protocol and LINQ queries with WCF
Data Service .NET Libraries
You can use Table storage to store and query huge sets of structured, non-relational data, and your tables will scale as demand increases.
You’ll have to install Azure Storage Client Library for .NET to work with Azure Storage.
For more details, refer to the documentations Get started with Azure Table storage using .NET and Get started with Azure table storage and Visual Studio Connected Services (ASP.NET) incase if you haven't checked earlier.
I've Two Custom code dll, for Image related to IP Cams.
dll-One : Extract image from IP cams and can be stored it to Azure data lake Store.
Like :
/adls/clinic1/patientimages
/adls/clinic2/patientimages
dll-two : Use those image and extract information from it and load data into RDBMS tables.
So for instance in RDBMS ,say there are entities dimpatient, dimclinic and factpatientVisit.
For start, a one time data can be exported to defined location in Azure data lake store.
Like:
/adls/dimpatient
/adls/dimclinic
/adls/factpatientVisit
Question :
How to push incremental data in same file or how we can handle this incremental load in Azure data Analytics?
This like implementing Warehouse in Azure Data Analytics.
Note: Azure SQL db or any other storage offered by Azure is not want to.
I mean why to spend in other Azure Services if one type of storage has capabilities to hold all types of data.
adls is name of my ADLS storage.
I am not sure I completely understand your question, but you can organize your data files in Azure Data Lake Store or your rows in partitioned U-SQL tables along a time dimension, so you can add new partitions/files for each increment. In general, we recommend that such increments are of substantial sizes though to preserve the ability to scale.
Has anybody ever moved Google Analytics data into Azure? I have seen a handful of ways to do it but I am not sure what I am getting myself into. The Google Analytics data is becoming quite large and I am wondering if it is best suited to leave it in google storage and access it from Azure or move it to something like HDInsight or Data Lake. I need to join the data across several disparate data stores, SQL Azure, Blob, and Table Storage. I was also looking into Apache Drill and Presto as a possible solution to unify the data access. Just looking to see if anybody out there has dealt with this same issue and has any experience to share. Thanks!
Preface
I don't have experience with Presto so I can only comment on the feasibility of doing this with Drill. Also I have not used Azure services so my advice is theoretical.
Drill Storage Plugins
Drill will allow you to perform any SQL queries you want on data originating from different sources, provided that each data source has a storage plugin. A storage plugin is simply a piece of code in Drill that allows you to interface with a data source. Since you are concerned with performing queries on 3 data sources, we need to determine if each of those 3 data sources have a Storage plugin.
SQL Azure
I assume SQL Azure has a jdbc driver for java. If so then Drill can be configured to use SQL Azure by following these instructions.
Azure Blob
Azure Blob storage has an implementation of the hadoop filesystem api which Drill uses to read data from file systems. So you could theoretically add the hadoop-azure jar and its dependencies https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-azure/2.7.0 to Drill's class path and configure Drill's DFS storage plugin to use it.
Additionally the data in Azure Blob would have to be stored in a supported file format like: json, parquet, csv, or hadoop sequence files.
Azure Table
This looks like Microsoft's custom NoSQL database. Currently Drill does not support it.
Conclusion
With a bit of work you could use Drill to query data on both Azure SQL and Blob, but not Azure Table.