Azure Diagnostics for Virtual Machines is a  great feature. You have visibility for syslog, CPU usage, memory usage, boot diagnostics, etc. It is great to have it. But if you have used it for a while, you may find yourself in the uncomfortable place to have collected too much data, that have launched storage costs to undesirable heights. At least at this point in time, Microsoft does not offer retention mechanisms for diagnostic data. One quick and dirty way to get rid of it is to completely wipe the diagnostics data and start from scratch. There is no way to throw away just the old data. It is all or nothing. Continue reading Cleanup Azure Diagnostic data from Table Storage →