Walk Through Guide for Kusto Detective Agency 2022, Onboarding Level Solution
Welcome Detective, it’s your Call for Action!
There’re troubles in Digitown, and Kusto Detective Agency needs your urgent help to solve the mysterious cases! 🏙 🚓
SPOILER ALERT! In this series of articles, I’ll share detailed solutions for these addictive riddles 🕵
The riddles involve KQL (which is like SQL, but better 😉 query language) used for the ultra-fast Azure Big-Data DataBase called Kusto (or Azure Data Explorer)
The journey is fun and a mind-intriguing CTF experience similar to ESC Room🙂
This amazing challenge is at : https://detective.kusto.io
Create Your Free Cluster!
The first step is creating the DataBase for free!
This involves three simple steps:
- Browsing to https://aka.ms/kustofree
- Logging in with Microsoft Account
- Creating the cluster in less than 5 seconds!
Now that we have our first Kusto Cluster, let’s take the snippet shared with us:
And let's run in the Query blade:
⚠SPOILER ALERT — THE SOLUTION DESCRIBED BELOW⚠
After running it once, we have data and are ready to answer the pressing question:
What is the sum of Score column?
Lucky us🍀 KQL is super friendly and fast: we start a new line with the pipe, then start with the summarize operator to specify we want to do an aggregative function which is sum on Score column:
And that’s all! in less than 5 minutes we created a cluster, ingested data, and were able to query and answer the onboarding question🏆 Wow!
Easy-peasy it was, altogether this is just a warmup question for a great journey 🛤
Walk Through Guide for Kusto Detective Agency 2022, Case #1 Solution
Walk Through Guide for Kusto Detective Agency 2022, Case #2 Solution
Walk Through Guide for Kusto Detective Agency 2022, Case #3 Solution
Walk Through Guide for Kusto Detective Agency 2022, Case #4 Solution
Walk Through Guide for Kusto Detective Agency 2022, Case #5 Solution
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