Someone explain to me what it is and how the Windows Azure Storage Analytics works and how I can use it in conjunction with storage.
Windows Azure Storage Analytics offers profiler like capabilities for Azure Storage (which includes Tables, Blobs and Queues).
You can find a very good overview of Azure Storage Analytics directly on MSDN. Then, for digging deeper and also getting some code samples, you can go here related to the logging functionality and here for the metrics one.
Check out the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics App for Windows 8 in the app store:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/azure-storage-monitor/e9292e05-c469-403d-a787-63645b861593
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Could someone please tell some examples where we can use Azure file share in azure instead of Azure Blobs. In the internet whenever I search I get it can be mounted or it follows SMB protocol. But still I am not understanding a single case where we can use Azure File share.
For this I tried to look into When to use Azure blob storage versus Azure file share?
-This is a similar question but doesn't answer my question.
Azure provides a variety of storage tools and services, including Azure Storage. To determine which Azure technology is best suited for your scenario, see Review your storage options in the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework.
For detailed information and examples refer to this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction
It depends mostly on your use-case and how you plan to access the data. If you simply want to mount and access your files Azure Files will be your best fit. If you are looking for the lowest cost and want to access your data programmatically through your application Azure Blob would be a better fit. Both are accessible through the portal or Azure Storage Explorer.
I also recommend this Learn module which covers the difference in data types and solutions.
Additional information: Azure Blob Storage vs Azure File Storage
Cost details of Azure Blob Storage pricing & Azure Files pricing
In short: if you ...
have an application that needs to store or access files in the cloud, use Blob Storage
need a file share that can be used by, for instance, a server, use File Shares
Azure Files shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of Windows, Linux, and macOS. Azure Files shares can also be cached on Windows Servers with Azure File Sync for fast access near where the data is being used.
This means a File Share is, somewhat simplified, similar to a network share you would have in a local environment.
Azure Blob Storage helps you create data lakes for your analytics needs, and provides storage to build powerful cloud-native and mobile apps. Optimize costs with tiered storage for your long-term data, and flexibly scale up for high-performance computing and machine learning workloads.
This means Blob Storage is what you need when you're building powerful cloud-native and mobile apps.
my question is about Microsoft Azure blob storage.
Can I manage blob snapshots from user console (azure portal)? Take snapshot,delete,recover etc.
Thanks
No, currently the portal does not offer this functionality. You may want to check out Azure Explorers available in the market. Most of them have support for managing blob snapshots.
Is there any API or powershell cmdlet available for configuring the Azure stroage account for Monitoring?I mean monitoring blobs,queues and tables.
There are many ways by which you can configure storage analytics on a storage account:
Using Storage REST API.
Using Storage Client Library. Look for GetServiceProperties and SetServiceProperties.
If you're looking for a 3rd party tool, there's a free tool available from Cerebrata - http://blog.cerebrata.com/articles/2011/08/11/cerebrata-windows-azure-storage-analytics-configuration-utility-a-free-utility-to-configure-windows-azure-storage-analytics/. Using this tool, you can configure storage analytics.
If you're looking for a tool to view this data, try this tool: https://github.com/mogliang/Azure-Storage-Analytics-Viewer.
I've just discovered that I have 100's of GB of log files/failed request logs on Azure Blob storage that have been accumulating over the years. Is there a tool or technique for managing them - the directory structure is convoluted so its not as easy as just sorting by date (I use Cloud Storage Studio as an Azure management tool)
[With apologies in advance if it feels like product plug] You could possibly look into Azure Diagnostics Manager (http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/AzureDiagnosticsManager). This tool is built specifically for viewing/managing Windows Azure Diagnostics. You could also look into Azure Management Studio (http://www.cerebrata.com) which combines Cloud Storage Studio and Azure Diagnostics Manager into one product and is currently in public beta.
Both tools allow you to purge old data, search for logs data based on date ranges.
(Disclosure: I'm part of Cerebrata team)
I am trying to implement azure storage metrics code in my role but i am checking if there is easy way to get azure storage metric data about my files usage. my code is stable and i do not want to change code again.
Actually if you already have Windows Azure role running, then you don't need to make any changes to your code and you still can get Windows Azure Blob storage Metrics data.
I have written a blog about it last time as Collecting Windows Azure Storage REST API level metrics data without a single line of programming, just by using tools
Please try above and see if this works for you.
Storage analytics is disabled by default, so any operations against your storage up til now has not been logged for analysis.
You may choose to enable analytics at any time, for both logging (detailed access information for every single object) and metrics (hourly rollups). Further, you may choose which specific storage service to track (blobs, tables, queues) and which operations to track (read, write, delete). Once analytics are enabled, you may access the resulting analytics data from any app (as long as you have the storage account name + key).
Persistent Systems just published a blog post on enabling storage analytics for Java apps. The same principles may be applied to a .net app (and the sdk's are very similar).
Additionally, Full Scale 180 published a sample app encapsulating storage analytics (based on REST API, as it was written before SDK v1.6 came out).