Building visualizations
Visualization is the last component of our architecture. Through visualization applications, users can monitor the status of assets and alarms and build powerful dashboards. Azure offers several options for data visualization:
- Azure Data Explorer
- Managed Grafana
- Power BI
- Azure IoT Central
We have already seen Grafana in Chapters 8 and 10. In a later subsection, we will see the basic steps to configure it.
Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a managed service to efficiently handle data. Azure Data Explorer allows us to process, export, and visualize data. Data can be locally stored or simply connected through connectors. Connectors support IoT Hub, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, and Event Grid. Moreover, we can use an ingestion SDK to connect different data sources.
Finally, we can manage data efficiently using a powerful query language called Kusto Query Language (KQL).
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