Azure Kusto

by microsoft

Azure Kusto is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in azure-skills.

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Install Azure Kusto

Copy Azure Kusto into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tree/main/skills/azure-kusto ~/.claude/skills/azure-kusto

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/azure-kusto/SKILL.md in microsoft/azure-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/azure-kusto
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Azure Kusto does

Azure Kusto runs KQL queries against Azure Data Explorer clusters for log analytics, telemetry, and time series analysis. Use it when you need to explore schemas, list databases, or aggregate large datasets with Kusto Query Language.

Azure Kusto is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Azure Kusto comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) Query & Analytics

Execute KQL queries and manage Azure Data Explorer resources for fast, scalable big data analytics on log, telemetry, and time series data.

Skill Activation Triggers

Use this skill immediately when the user asks to:

"Query my Kusto database for [data pattern]"
"Show me events in the last hour from Azure Data Explorer"
"Analyze logs in my ADX cluster"
"Run a KQL query on [database]"
"What tables are in my Kusto database?"
"Show me the schema for [table]"
"List my Azure Data Explorer clusters"
"Aggregate telemetry data by [dimension]"
"Create a time series chart from my logs"

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Azure Kusto

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure Kusto?
Azure Kusto is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/azure-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Runway AKS Setup, App Insights Instrumentation and Azure AI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Azure Kusto does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/azure-skills page.
How does Azure Kusto compare to other Data skills?
Azure Kusto ranks #402 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Azure Kusto against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.