Azure data explorer

Question

I want to transfer around 150TB of archival logs from IBM Qradar to Azure data explorer for long term retention.

Should I consider Azure Blob or Azure data lake in this case ? Any other suggestions also welcome.

Answer 1

Hello @Ysadh ,

Welcome to the MS Q&A platform.

You should consider Azure Blob Storage.

These are the following reasons to use Azure Blob storage.

• It offers configurable hot and cold caches backed by memory and local disk, with data persistency on Azure Storage.
• Data persisted in ADX is durably backed by Azure Storage that offers replication out of the box, locally within an Azure Data Center, zonally within an Azure Region.

For more details, refer to the below links:

Long term retention of Config and Data backups leveraging Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Using Azure Data Explorer for long term retention of Microsoft Sentinel logs

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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