Case Study: LinkedIn achieves simplified log management and major cost savings with Microsoft Azure Data Explorer (Microsoft Azure)

LinkedIn simplifies log management with Azure Data Explorer

LinkedIn, the global professional network serving hundreds of millions of users, faced operational and compliance challenges from fragmented log systems: high infrastructure costs, unstable clusters, slow service onboarding, and the need to centralize logs and scale while meeting GDPR requirements.

By migrating to Azure Data Explorer, LinkedIn centralized log aggregation and improved analytics and search across services. The move cut onboarding time from weeks to about 30 minutes, reduced costs to roughly one quarter of the prior solution, dramatically lowered failure rates, enabled a much smaller operations team, and drove strong adoption (about 75% of production services onboarded, 330 active users running 78,000 queries in a week).

LinkedIn

Nick Brown

Senior Site Reliability Engineer