CloudBerry Explorer: Windows Azure Storage Analytics support

It has been awhile since we introduced CloudBerry Explorer client for Windows Azure Blob storage service. We designed it as an Azure storage browser that helps managing your data and now we are proud to announce a release which introduces a new Azure Storage Analytics tool. 

Windows Azure Storage Analytics offers you the ability to track, analyze, and debug your usage of storage.  You can use this data to analyze storage usage to improve the design of your applications and their access patterns to Windows Azure Storage.  Analytics data consists of:

·         Logs -  Provide trace of executed requests

·         Metrics -   Provide summary of key capacity and request statistics

How to enabled Logs

Click Storage Settings link next to the account list.

On the following dialog you can enable the logging and decided what kind of requests you would like to track. The available options are Delete requests, Read requests, Write requests.

You can also set up a retention period for the logs.

Logs will become available in a special container called $logs.

How to enable Metrics

You can enable Request information and Capacity information collection.

 Request information: Provides hourly aggregates of number of requests, etc

Capacity information: Provides daily statistics for the space consumed by the service, number of containers and number of objects that are stored in the service.

You can also set up the retention period for the metrics

Where to see the logs?

The log files will show up in a special container called logs$. You will have to manually enter it to the navigation bar and to navigate down to actual files. The log file format is outside of the scope of this article and you can learn about it in MS documentation.

What's next?

We are looking forward to your feedback and we would like to see how popular this feature will become. Based on its popularity we will make a full blown analytic reports similar to the one available for Amazon S3 version of CloudBerry Explorer. 

Download the new version of Cloudberry Explorer and share you thoughts with us.

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer for Azure 1.4 and later.

CloudBerry Azure Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Azure Blob Storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/azure

CloudBerry Azure Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Azure Blob Storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-azure-pro  . It costs $39.99

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