Stopping Stream Analytics Job

Question

Hello,

I just want to ask if stopping Stream Analytics Job also means it will stop incurring cost? or it needs to be deleted?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @jb_devel
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A platform and thanks for posting your query here.
Stopping a Stream Analytics job will indeed stop the processing and compute resources associated with the job, which means it will no longer incur running costs. However, please note the following:

• Stopping the job does not delete it. You may still incur storage costs for any input/output data, or for other Azure resources (e.g., Event Hubs, Blob Storage, SQL databases) linked to the job.
• If you no longer need the job or its associated resources, you can delete them to avoid any ongoing costs.

For more information you refer this article: Stop a job in Azure portal

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

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Answer 2

Hello @jb_devel ,

welcome to this moderated Azure community forum.

As @Smaran Thoomu stopping the Azure Stream Analytics job stops the compute resources behind it so the costs are minimized.

Keep in mind that costs related to the (optional) storage account (eg. needed for SQL reference data snapshots for reference data) are still applicable.

Also, if you start the job later on with the option to use the last ingested event as starting point, reading historical will imply a higher load.

Azure Stream Analytics job can be stopped automatically (eg. to prevent consumption of unneeded development resources). Check out this post about the details.

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