Hot LRS Write operations on storage costing way more than expected

Question

So i was just checking cost explorer and found out Hot lrs write operation on storage account cost way too much. i don't know how to find the source of this costing. how do i drill down to exact source? can you tell exactly what could have happened here? How do i minimize this cost?

Answer 1

@Zahid Makandar - TSS Consultancy Since your issue is related to the billing details for your account I recommend opening a case with our Billing and Subscription team. Billing and Subscription support is free and the experts there should be able to go through the details on this. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/create-ticket/

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Answer 2

Hi - Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, thank you for posting your query here!

You can start by enabling logging to gain more robust details around the operations happening on the account such as Request URI, Client IP, User Agent Header etc. which shall help you back tracking to the source.

The user agent shall help pointing the calls are from which source such as ADF, DataBricks, some other SDKS etc. This along with request URL shall reviewing your workloads writing to the particular containers and you can then work with your developers further for optimization ahead accordingly. Below are the links to start with: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/monitor-blob-storage?tabs=azure-portal https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/blob-storage-monitoring-scenarios

For more further discussion you can raise a support ticket further with either billing or storage team (for technical details)

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