Manage Azure Cosmos DB at scale with fleets

Intermediate
Developer
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Monitor

Run a multitenant Azure Cosmos DB estate as one unit. Group accounts into a fleet, share throughput with a pool instead of provisioning every tenant for its peak, and answer estate-wide usage and cost questions from a single dataset.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you're able to:

  • Describe how Azure Cosmos DB fleets organize multitenant workloads across accounts and subscriptions.
  • Configure fleet-level throughput management by using fleetspaces and pools.
  • Configure fleet monitoring with fleet analytics.

Prerequisites

  • Knowledge of request units and throughput models in Azure Cosmos DB, including manual and autoscale throughput
  • Knowledge of monitoring Azure Cosmos DB with metrics in Azure Monitor
  • Basic understanding of multitenant application patterns
  • Basic familiarity with Azure subscriptions, resource groups, and the Azure portal