Future Data Driven Summit 2025

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Location: Virtual

View Event: Mastering Kusto Query Language (KQL): Your Gateway to Azure Monitoring and Insights

As organizations move workloads to Azure, visibility into resource performance, security, and operations becomes essential. Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s centralized platform for observability, bringing together telemetry across applications, infrastructure, and services. At the core of this platform is Kusto Query Language (KQL)—a fast, expressive language purpose-built for exploring log data and enabling deep analytics.

This session is your hands-on introduction to KQL, designed for cloud professionals who want to gain actionable insights from Azure Monitor Logs. Through live demos and practical examples, we’ll walk through the core concepts and real-world applications of KQL, including:

• Understanding KQL syntax and how it compares to T-SQL
• Querying and analyzing log data using Azure Log Analytics
• Efficient techniques for filtering, sorting, and summarizing data
• Building alerts and identifying anomalies with KQL-based queries
• Using joins, time-series functions, and advanced features for deeper analysis

By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped to confidently write and use KQL queries to enhance monitoring, security, and operational decision-making in Azure environments.

Learning Objective:

• Learn the fundamentals of KQL for querying Azure Monitor Logs.
• Apply KQL for real-time monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnostics.
• Create powerful alerting rules using KQL in Azure Log Analytics.

🎓 Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of SQL or T-SQL
• General familiarity with Azure services