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Ebby Peter
Ebby Peter

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The Hidden Cost of 'Just Turn On Logging' in Azure

Why your Log Analytics bill is lying to you, and how to fix it before it compounds.

Your team enabled logging everywhere, a responsible move. Then the Azure bill arrived. This post traces exactly why Log Analytics costs spiral without warning, what the AzureDiagnostics table is quietly doing to your budget, and how resource-specific tables plus DCR transformations give you back control.

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