Azure Stream Analytics Reviews

What is our primary use case?

We have different kinds of IoT devices placed in different countries including the UK, US, and others. They are configured with our IoT hub and we get the logs from them accordingly. We have these logs connected with the Stream Analytics suites and Microsoft Power BI. Whatever updates and other activity is happening on the devices are streamed into Azure and Power BI so that we can see them. If we find any error messages then we have to check the health of the corresponding IoT devices, databases, and configuration.

What other advice do I have?

Azure Stream Analytics is something that we were able to easily learn. It doesn't take much programming sill, so I feel that it is easy to start using. Other than the problem with delays in connecting to Microsoft BI, Kibana, or other monitoring tools, I don't have any other issues with this product. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is mainly to ingest real time data streams into permanent storage places like databases, block storage, etc.

What other advice do I have?

My simple advice would be to not scale up initially. Also, if you have questions don't just rely on the official documentation, but use other resources such as a blog by a developer, because sometimes that can be more helpful than documentation provided by the company. The best advice I can offer would be that if there is a simple solution available, do not try to complicate things. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.

What is our primary use case?

I used it once for a project demo to a customer for an IoT solution. In this demo, the data was collected from the sensors, and it was sent to Power BI reports. The collected data was analyzed by using the analytics tools to get some insights. This project was the first project for our company to start the development of IoT solutions. We have only used it for a demo, and we have kept it for demo for other customers. If any customer wants to deploy it, we would use it in production.

What other advice do I have?

If you want to deploy IoT services, this solution will be very helpful for real-time applications and for collecting data. I would rate Azure Stream Analytics a seven out of ten.