Creating an ADX cluster and ingesting data
In this recipe, we will create an ADX instance in the Azure portal and ingest the sample Storm Events data using the ADX UI.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will create an ADX cluster; we will be using these in future recipes for Data Factory pipelines.
How to do it...
- Go to the Azure portal at https://ms.portal.azure.com/.
- Find Azure Data Explorer Clusters.
- Click Create.
- In the first tab, we need to fill in the Subscription, Resource group, Cluster name, Region, and Workload fields:
Figure 11.3: Creating an ADX cluster
Microsoft provides us a cheap workload option for testing and prototyping – Dev/test. Running production workloads in ADX is expensive and will easily burn all your free credits.
- Next, click on Review + create and, after some quick validation, we can click Create.
- When the creation is complete, click on Go to Resource and it will open the ADX...
