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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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### 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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### 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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### 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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**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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**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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## From insight to action with Azure Storage Discovery
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Azure Storage Discovery simplifies the process of uncovering and analyzing insights from thousands of storage accounts, transforming complexity into clarity with just a few clicks.
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Use the Discovery reports or engage Copilot to mine for actionable insights. 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 behind it.
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You can review the list of resources and directly navigate to a resource for a configuration change. Alternatively, you can save the resource list as a *\*.csv* file and use it for bulk operations, like in scripts or terraform.
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Use this clarity to mine for actionable insights - then list the storage resources you've identified that can save money, improve security, or optimize your Storage estate across
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### 1. Use the reports
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## How do I use Storage Discovery?
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Azure Storage Discovery can be used to gain insights across multiple dimensions. The following use cases illustrate how users frequently leverage the service:
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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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-**Unified Visibility Across the Storage Estate**<br/>
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Gain organization-wide visibility into up to 1 million storage accounts. Discovery aggregates insights across subscriptions, resource groups, and regions, enabling users to monitor their entire storage footprint in one place.
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### 2. Pivot to a list of resources
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-**Actionable Insights Without Engineering Overhead**<br/>
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Out-of-the-box dashboards surface trends in capacity, transactions, errors, and configuration changes. Users can drill down into specific accounts or filter by tags, regions, or redundancy settings - without writing a single line of code or deploying infrastructure.
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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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You can navigate from a chart to a browse view.
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Integrated with Azure Copilot, Discovery allows users to ask natural language questions like `"Which storage accounts have the highest egress this month?"` and receive visual, contextual answers powered by Kusto Query Language (KQL) behind the scenes.
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Visualize and audit storage configurations to ensure alignment with best practices. Identify accounts with settings that don't align with your business needs and take corrective action.
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Discovery supports long-term planning and workload optimization with up to 30 days<sup>1</sup> of historical data automatically available within hours of deploying Azure Storage Discovery. All insights are retained for up to 18 months
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Discovery integrates with Azure Storage Center and other data management tools, offering a scalable solution that grows with your data estate.
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As organizations scale their digital footprint, managing storage across thousands of accounts becomes increasingly complex. Azure Storage Discovery eliminates the need for custom scripts, fragmented dashboards, or manual audits. It empowers storage admins, architects, and governance enables you to:
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- Make faster, data-driven decisions.
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- Improve operational efficiency.
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By browsing resources, you navigate directly to an individual resource for a configuration change.
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Alternatively, you can save the resource list as a *\*.csv* file and use it for bulk operations, like in scripts or terraform.
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## Next steps
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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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-[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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