Configuring SU using Azure portal

We will now look into how to scale the SUs for a Stream Analytics job using the Azure portal step by step:

1. Open the job that was previously created in the Azure portal. In the job blade, click the Scale option in the CONFIGURE section:

2. Drag the SUs slide to the desired number of units, then click the Save button.
3. To monitor how many SUs a job is using, open the job in the Azure portal.
4. In the job blade, click the Metrics option in the Monitoring section.
5. Under Available metrics, select SU % Utilization. You can provide a title and subtitle for the metrics chart, change the Chart type and Time range, and pin the chart to your dashboard. You can also add an alert on the metric as well, so you can receive a notification if the metric exceeds a particular threshold, as follows:

Generally, the SU % Utilization number should be at 80% or lower so that there is enough capacity to handle spikes.

6. You can also look at the number of Input Events and Output Events to measure...