Practical Data Analytics - Troubleshoot Your IIS Web App in Seconds with Kusto
How many of you find yourself in tech'ish conversations when the topic shifts to doing something useful with all the data running out of your company's data-tap. In my experience those conversations quickly shift to how data analytics will - one day - allow for predictive detection of anomalies, robotic responses, etc. If you are like me it surely sounds like a cool and exciting future that we all aspire to make real. So why not get started today? I believe to start that journey we need to find practical ways to apply data analytics to the platforms we use right now, with the data we have right now, and use it to make a tangible impact to the job we do right now. So, let me show you HOW with a quick dive into using the Microsoft Kusto data platform. Kusto is a time series data platform that Microsoft developed in-house for managing their own log data. Encouraged by success Microsoft turned it into an Azure service we can all use for applicatio...