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Easily manage the contents of your storage account with Azure Storage Explorer. Upload, download, and manage blobs, files, queues, tables, and Cosmos DB entities. Gain easy access to manage your virtual machine disks. Work with either Azure Resource Manager or classic storage accounts, plus manage and configure cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) rules.
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Adding Windirstat Like Graph for Object Statistics. #8093

Open wjhhuizi opened 3 months ago

wjhhuizi commented 3 months ago

Preflight Checklist

Problem

Hard to understand the storage usage from Cloud cost management perspective

Desired Solution

Having a Graph like what "windirstat" Tool can provide for Windows Filesystem would be need.

Alternatives and Workarounds

No response

Additional Context

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#/media/File:Windirstat.png

wjhhuizi commented 3 months ago

Windirstat

craxal commented 2 months ago

@wjhhuizi We can investigate some cost management analysis using Azure APIs. However, I'm not sure a windirstat experience is in the scope of Storage Explorer. It's very much more hardware oriented, which isn't very applicable in a cloud scenario. Can you be more specific about what features you'd like to see? What sort of questions do you need answers for when looking at your Azure storage?

craxal commented 1 month ago

@wjhhuizi Can you provide more information about what sort of questions you need answers for when look at your Azure storage?

wjhhuizi commented 1 month ago

Hi @craxal,

The feature me and my org want is actually to be able to understand the storage distribution and the cost due to the usage from each object/folder

example question like:

  1. Finding out the largest object from the container.
  2. Finding out which folder incurs the most cost from a BLOB Storage Account.
  3. List the size of the folder on each level.
  4. Analysis what are the file types mainly contained in a particular folder.

Thank you for looking into this.

craxal commented 1 month ago

@wjhhuizi Have you been using or considered Azure Monitor or Azure Storage Blob Inventory? Are there any gaps in these services for your needs?