Recently, I got the requirement to check whether one of my storage accounts is being used since I was trying to delete all the unwanted resources from my Azure account. I used two best approaches to check it. In this article, we will discuss all those approaches.
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How To Check If Azure Storage Account Is Being Used
Let us discuss those approaches individually.
Approach-1 Using the Metrics option
To check if Azure Storage account is being used, follow the below steps.
1. Log in to Azure Portal.
2. Search for Storage accounts and click on the search result Storage accounts under services, as shown in the screenshot below.
3. Now, click on the specific storage account for the one you wish to check the usage for.
4. On the storage account page, expand the Monitoring node and then click on the Metrics link from the left navigation. Choose the duration, select the Transactions option for the Metric dropdown, and choose Sum for the Aggregation dropdown, and you will see the transaction details as a graph, as shown in the screenshot below.
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Approach-2: Using Azure Monitor
Follow the below steps.
1. Log in to Azure Portal.
2. Click on the Show Portal Menu from the top left corner and click on the Monitor option, as shown in the screenshot below.
3. On the Monitor page, click on the Metrics option, as shown in the left navigation.
4. Search for storage, select the storage account, and click on the Apply button, as shown in the screenshot below.
5. Select the duration, Choose the transactions option from the Metric dropdown, and then select the Sum option from the Aggregation dropdown, as shown in the screenshot below.
Conclusion
This article shows how to check if Azure Storage account is being used. You can use the approaches mentioned in this article based on your requirements.
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I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.
