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# What is Azure Storage Discovery?
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**Azure Storage Discovery** is a fully managed service that provides enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Blob Storage data estate. In a single pane of glass you can understand and analyze how your data estate has evolved over time, optimize costs, enhance security, and drive operational efficiency.
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**Azure Storage Discovery** is a fully managed service that provides enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Blob Storage data estate. In a single pane of glass you can understand and analyze how your data estate evolved over time, optimize costs, enhance security, and drive operational efficiency.
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Azure Storage Discovery integrates with Copilot in Azure, enabling you to unlock insights and accelerate decision-making without utilizing any query language.
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Whether you're a cloud architect, storage administrator, or data governance lead, Azure Storage Discovery helps you quickly answer key questions about your enterprise data estate in Azure Blob Storage:
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Whether you're shaping cloud strategy or safeguarding data, Azure Storage Discovery gives you instant clarity on your Blob Storage estate.
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From architecture to governance, it delivers fast answers that help you take control of your Azure data landscape.
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<!-- Whether you're a cloud architect, storage administrator, or data governance lead, Azure Storage Discovery helps you quickly answer key questions about your enterprise data estate in Azure Blob Storage: -->
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- How much data do we store across all our storage accounts?
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- Which regions are experiencing the highest growth?
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- Can I reduce our costs by finding data that is not being frequently used?
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- What are the regions with the highest growth?
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- Can I reduce our costs by finding data that isn't being frequently used?
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- Are our storage configurations aligned with security and compliance best practices?
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:::image type="content" source="media/overview/overview-copilot-small.png" alt-text="Azure portal sowing a Discovery report and copilot chat window." lightbox="media/overview/overview-copilot-big.png":::
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## Gain advanced storage insights
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Analyze how the data estate in Azure Blob Storage is growing, identify opportunities for cost optimization, discover data that is under-utilized, pinpoint workloads that could be getting throttled and find ways to strengthen the security of your storage accounts. These insights are powered by metrics related to storage capacity (object size and object count), activity on the data estate (transactions, ingress, egress), aggregation of transaction errors and detailed configurations for data protection, cost optimization and security.
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Track how your Azure Blob Storage estate is evolving and uncover hidden opportunities to reduce costs, boost performance, and tighten security. Azure Storage Discovery reveals underused data, throttling risks, and ways to optimize spend—so you can manage smarter and scale confidently.
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These insights are powered by metrics related to storage capacity (object size and object count), activity on the data estate (transactions, ingress, egress), aggregation of transaction errors and detailed configurations for data protection, cost optimization, and security.
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<!-- Analyze how the data estate in Azure Blob Storage is growing, identify opportunities for cost optimization, discover data that is under-utilized, pinpoint workloads that could be getting throttled and find ways to strengthen the security of your storage accounts. These insights are powered by metrics related to storage capacity (object size and object count), activity on the data estate (transactions, ingress, egress), aggregation of transaction errors and detailed configurations for data protection, cost optimization and security. -->
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### Interactive reports
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Your Discovery resource in the Azure Portal features several reports that make it simple to analyze trends over time, drill into top storage accounts, and instantly navigate to the specific resources represented in each chart. The reports can be filtered to focus on specific parts of the data estate based on Storage account configurations like Regions, Redundancy, Performance type, Encryption type, and others.
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Your Discovery resource in the Azure Portal offers intuitive reports that reveal trends, highlight top storage accounts, and link directly to the resources behind each chart. Quickly spot patterns, surface key accounts, and jump straight to the data—all from your Discovery dashboard in Azure.
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Filter reports by region, redundancy, performance, encryption, and more to focus on the most relevant parts of your data estate.
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<!-- Your Discovery resource in the Azure Portal features several reports that make it simple to analyze trends over time, drill into top storage accounts, and instantly navigate to the specific resources represented in each chart. The reports can be filtered to focus on specific parts of the data estate based on Storage account configurations like Regions, Redundancy, Performance type, Encryption type, and others. -->
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### Organization-wide visibility
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Flexible scoping allows you to gather insights for multiple business groups, workloads, or groupings of resources that are meaningful to you. Analyze up to 1 million storage accounts spread across different subscriptions, resource groups and regions within a single workspace. The ability to drill down and filter data allows you to quickly obtain actionable insights for optimizing your data estate.
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Flexible scoping allows you to gather insights for multiple business groups, workloads, or groupings of resources that are meaningful to you. Analyze up to 1 million storage accounts spread across different subscriptions, resource groups, and regions within a single workspace. The ability to drill down and filter data allows you to quickly obtain actionable insights for optimizing your data estate.
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### Adding Storage Discovery is simple
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**Fully managed service**
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The Discovery service computes and hosts your insights. No additional infrastructure needs to be deployed or payed for.
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The Discovery service computes and hosts your insights. No other infrastructure needs to be deployed or paid for.
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**No impact on storage resources**
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Your Azure Storage resources (like storage accounts) experience no transactions or performance impact when analyzing them with Azure Storage Discovery.
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**History provided right from the start**
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Up to 30 days of historical data will automatically be added within hours of deploying Azure Storage Discovery and all insights will be retained for up to 18 months. History and retention depend on the [pricing plan](pricing.md) you choose.
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Up to 30 days of historical data will be added automatically, once you deploy a Discovery workspace. All insights are retained for up to 18 months. History and retention depend on the [pricing plan](pricing.md) you choose.
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**Free and paid pricing plans**
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Azure Storage Discovery offers free and paid pricing plans for each workspace. The [pricing article](pricing.md) describes the differences and explains what influences the bill when choosing a paid option.
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### 1. Use the reports
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When you deploy Storage Discovery, you'll get a resource called a *Storage discovery workspace* in one of your resource groups. The [deployment planning](deployment-planning.md) and [workspace creation](create-workspace.md) articles have more details.
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Open your workspace, navigate to the reports. You can adjust your scope to look at a portion of your storage estate, filter whole reports or pivot individual graphs to mine for insights that are relevant and actionable for you. For instance, focus on security or cost relevant insights first.
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When you deploy Storage Discovery, you get a resource called a *Storage discovery workspace* in one of your resource groups. The [deployment planning](deployment-planning.md) and [workspace creation](create-workspace.md) articles have more details.
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Open your workspace, then navigate to the reports. You can adjust your scope to look at a portion of your storage estate, filter whole reports or pivot individual graphs to mine for insights that are relevant and actionable for you. For instance, focus on security or cost relevant insights first.
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Every chart in the Discovery reports can be translated into a list of the storage resources that fuel this visualization.
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:::image type="content" source="media/overview/view-resources-small.png" alt-text="A chart tile with the View Resources button highlighted." lightbox="media/overview/view-resources-big.png":::
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These articles will help you plan your Discovery deployment and enable you to successfully create the Discovery workspace resource.
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These articles help plan your Discovery deployment and enable you to successfully create the Discovery workspace resource.
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- [Planning for an Azure Storage Discovery deployment](deployment-planning.md)
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- [Create Storage Discovery Workspace by using the Azure portal](create-workspace.md)

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