What's new in Azure Data Explorer documentation
Welcome to what's new in Azure Data Explorer. This article details new and updated content in the Azure Data Explorer documentation.
February 2025
API
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Create an app to get data using the managed streaming ingestion client | New article. Learn how to create a basic application to ingest data from a file or in-memory stream using the managed streaming ingestion client. |
| Controlling and suppressing Kusto SDK client-side tracing | Updated article. Clarified instructions of how to enable or disable tracing. |
Functions library
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| - Functions library - graph_blast_radius_fl() - graph_exposure_perimeter_fl() |
Updated articles. Refreshed with clearer content. |
Management
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| - Entity groups - .alter entity_group command - .alter-merge entity_group command - .create entity_group command - .drop entity_group command - .show entity_group(s) command macro-expand operator |
New articles. Learn how to use entity group commands to store entity groups in the database, and how to use the macro-expand operator to run a subquery on a set of entities within the entity group and combining the results. |
| - .alter materialized-view lookback - .alter materialized-view - .create-or-alter materialized-view - .create materialized-view - Materialized views - Materialized views limitations and known issues - Monitor materialized views |
Updated articles. Refreshed with clearer content, examples, and troubleshooting. |
Query
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| - all() (graph function) - inner_nodes() (graph function) - map() (graph function) |
New articles. Learn how to use the all(), inner nodes, and map graph functions to evaluate a condition over the elements of a variable length edge. |
| - node_degree_in() (graph function) - node_degree_out() (graph function) |
New articles. Learn how to calculate the number of incoming or outgoing edges in a directed graph. |
January 2025
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Customize settings in the web UI | Updated topic. Added how to enable cross-tenant dashboard sharing. |
| Share dashboards | New article. Describes how to share dashboards in Azure Data Explorer. |
| Share queries from web UI | Updated topic. Added information about shared queries opening in protected mode for enhanced security. |
| Troubleshoot: Failure to connect to a cluster | Updated topic. Added instructions how to verify a cluster is active. |
| Manage public access to your cluster | Updated topic. Added section to manage access to your cluster by specifying selected IP addresses, CIDER notations, or service tags. |
Query
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| range operator | Updated topic. Added example of using the range operator to combine different stop times. |
| replace_string() function | Updated topic. Added a simpler example that replaces words in a string. |
December 2024
Functions library
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| graph_path_discovery_fl() | New article. Describes how to discover valid paths between relevant endpoints over graph data. |
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Data Explorer web UI keyboard shortcuts | Updated topic. Added keyboard shortcuts for Apple macOS. |
| Ingest data with Fluent Bit into Azure Data Explorer | Updated topic. Added new properties to the Fluent Bit client configuration file. |
Query
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| - series_periods_detect() - extract() - max_of() - iff() - parse_version() - not() - Tutorial: Learn common operators - sum() (aggregation function) - arg_max() (aggregation function) - arg_min() (aggregation function) - max() (aggregation function) - min() (aggregation function) |
Updated topics. Refreshed with clearer content and enhances examples. Added examples for the iff() and arg_min() functions. Added example outputs for extract(). |
November 2024
API
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| App authentication methods | New article. Learn about the different authentication methods that can be used in apps using Kusto client libraries. |
| Kusto connection strings | Updated article. Refreshed content and updated code. |
| Request properties | Updated article. Refreshed content and added a section that lists which request properties can't be set with a set statement. |
Functions library
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| detect_anomalous_new_entity_fl() | New article. Learn how to use the detect_anomalous_new_entity_fl() function to detect the appearance of anomalous new entities. |
| plotly_gauge_fl() | New article. Learn how to use the plotly_gauge_fl() user-defined function. |
| Functions library | Updated article. Added detect anomalous new entity and use of a Plotly template to render a gauge chart. |
| plotly_anomaly_fl() | Updated article. Added use of a Plotly template to render a gauge chart. |
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Create a managed private endpoint | Updated article. Refreshed content and added information about creating multiple managed private endpoints and automatic approval. |
Management
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Managed Identity policy | Updated article. Added ai_embed_text plugin for AzureAI to the list of managed identity usages. |
Query
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| graph-shortest-paths operator (Preview) | New article. Learn how to use the graph_shortest_paths operator to efficiently find the shortest paths from a given set of source nodes to a set of target nodes within a graph. |
| graph-mark-components operator (Preview) | New article. Learn how to use the graph_mark_components operator to find and mark all connected components of a graph. |
| ai_embed_text plugin (Preview) | New article. Learn how to use the ai_embed_text plugin to embed text via language models, enabling various AI-related scenarios such as RAG application and semantic search. |
| Graph operators | Updated. Added new graph operators. |
| make-graph operator | Updated article. Refreshed content and added information about default nodes. |
| toint() function | Updated article. Refreshed content and added instruction on how to convert a decimal value into a truncate integer. |
October 2024
Management
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Change column type without data loss | New article. Learn how to preserve pre-existing data by changing column type without data loss. |
| .alter column command | Updated article. Updated information for changing column type without data loss. |
September 2024
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Ingest data from Cribl Stream into Azure Data Explorer | New article. Learn how to ingest data from Cribl stream. |
Management
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| .alter database prettyname command | New article. Learn how to use the .alter database prettyname command to alter the database's prettyname. |
| .drop database prettyname command | New article. Learn how to use the .drop database prettyname command to drop the database's prettyname. |
| .execute database script command | Updated article. Updated information for .alter db. |
| .show database schema violations | Updated article. Updated information for .alter db. |
| .show database command | Updated article. Updated information for .alter db. |
| .show databases entities command | Updated article. Updated information for .alter db. |
| .show databases command | Updated article. Updated information for .alter db. |
| .show database schema command | Updated article. Updated information for .alter db. |
| .show data operations command | New article. Learn how to use the .show data operations command to return data operations that reached a final state. |
Query
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| top-nested operator | Updated article. Refreshed with clearer content and examples. |
August 2024
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Visualize data with Azure Data Explorer dashboards | Updated article. Added section explaining how the tile legend is used to interact with the data in the tile. |
| Ingest data from Apache Kafka into Azure Data Explorer | Updated article. Added information about managed identity. |
Management
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| .show data operation command | New article. Learn how to use the .show data operations command to return data operations that reached a final state. |
July 2024
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Python plugin packages | Updated article. Refreshed the list of available Python packages for the Python plugin. |
| Azure DevOps Task for Azure Data Explorer | Updated article. Updated to include latest authentication changes in the Azure DevOps extension. |
Query
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| infer_storage_schema_with_suggestions plugin | New article. Describes how to use the infer_storage_schema_with_suggestions plugin to infer the optimal schema of external data. |
| infer_storage_schema plugin | Updated article. Added description of how to use the infer_storage_schema plugin to retrieve the CSL schema string. |
| cosmosdb_sql_request plugin | Updated article. Added token authentication method. |
| evaluate plugin operator | Updated article. Added the ipv6_lookup plugin to the list of supported plugins. |
| ipv6_lookup plugin | New article. Describes how to use the ipv6_lookup plugin to look up an IPv6 address in a lookup table. |
June 2024
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| How the reservation discount is applied to Azure Data Explorer | New article. Describes how the reservation discount is applied to Azure Data Explorer markup meter. |
| Access the data profile of a table | Updated article. Refreshed steps on how to open the data profile. |
| Write Kusto Query Language queries in the Azure Data Explorer web UI | Updated article. Refreshed steps on how to use the KQL tools in the toolbar. |
| Explore the samples gallery | Updated article. Refreshed steps on how to navigate to other tutorials. |
Query
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| cosmosdb_sql_request plugin | Updated article. Added Azure Resource Manager example. |
May 2024
No updates.
April 2024
Management
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| .execute cluster script command | New article. Describes how to use the .execute cluster script command to execute a batch of management commands in the scope of a cluster. |
March 2024
API
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Use Kusto cmdlets in Azure PowerShell | New article. Describes how to use Kusto cmdlets in Azure PowerShell. |
General
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| Create an Azure Data Explorer cluster and database | Updated article. Refreshed steps on how to set up Azure PowerShell to run Kusto cmdlets. |
| Migrate your cluster to support multiple availability zones (Preview) | Updated article. Refreshed steps on how to get the list of availability zones for your cluster's region in Azure portal. |
Management
| Article title | Description |
|---|---|
| - What are common scenarios for using table update policies - Tutorial: Route data using table update policies - Update policy overview |
New and updated articles. Describes common use cases for how to use update table policies to perform complex transformations and route results to destination tables. |
| Parquet mapping | Updated article. Added parquet type conversions table to provide a mapping of Parquet field types, and the table column types they can be converted to. |