How to see the amount of daily storage used in Azure Application Insights

Question

In Azure application insights - how do I see how much of the daily usage I've used?

I can see that I can set a daily cap - but I don't know how much I've used or if I'm near the cap.

Have checked around the dashboard, there are options to set daily cap but no option I can find to see the daily usage metric.

Answer 1

Summarizing from the discussion (above). @Nelson, Thanks for sharing the info/solution with the community.

Issue: How to see the amount of daily storage used in Azure Application Insights

Solution: Azure Support advised to run the below query in log analytics, to help find the total daily usage split by what data type was taking up most of the space:

Usage
| extend BillingTelemetryType = DataType
| extend BillingTelemetrySizeInMB = QuantityUnit
| extend BillingTelemetrySizeInMB = Quantity
| summarize sum(Quantity) by bin(TimeGenerated,1d), DataType
| render columnchart

Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that the question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others, I' have summarized and posted the solution/answer to benefit the community users to find the answers quickly.

Answer 2

In Azure Application Insights, while there is no direct out-of-the-box feature to view daily usage metrics from the Azure Portal dashboard, you can monitor your daily usage through the Metrics and Usage features. Here's how to check your daily usage:

1. Go to the Azure portal and navigate to your Application Insights resource.
2. In the left-hand menu, click on Metrics. This will allow you to create a metric chart.
3. In the Metrics pane, select the Metric Namespace as Availability and then choose Data Volume. This metric represents the volume of data sent to Application Insights.
4. Adjust the time range to Last 24 hours to view your usage over the past day. You can also set a specific granularity to see usage trends more clearly (e.g., hourly).
5. Review the graph and values displayed to assess how much data you have consumed in the selected period.

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hth

Marcin

Answer 3

I reached out to Azure Support and was given this to run in log analytics, this was able to help find the total daily usage split by what data type was taking up most of the space:

Usage
| extend BillingTelemetryType = DataType
| extend BillingTelemetrySizeInMB = QuantityUnit
| extend BillingTelemetrySizeInMB = Quantity
| summarize sum(Quantity) by bin(TimeGenerated,1d), DataType
| render columnchart