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JIS-4881 asked AnuragSharma-MSFT commented

In Cosmos DB Monitoring Insights (Preview) what is the __empty collection?

I have a Cosmos DB database with multiple containers using shared throughput autoscaling, 400 to max 4000.

In the Monitoring Insights (preview) I noticed higher throughput every hour. I tried finding the container this is for by selecting the throughput tab and setting the database and then trying each container, but I can't see the same pattern as when it is set to unset.

Then at the bottom of the screen I noticed that under Provisioned Throughput (Max) by Collection, it specifies the __empty collection and that has a value of 800.
What is the __empty collection?

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Hi @JIS-4881, welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

I have reached out to product group for more details on this and will keep the response posted here.

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AnuragSharma-MSFT answered AnuragSharma-MSFT commented

Hi @JIS-4881, thanks for your patience. I have received the reply from the product group. Please find the verbatim below:

"The collection name is set to the empty value when the throughput is shared among collections in a database, i.e. SharedThroughputOffer. When a database is set with the shared throughput offer the metric (i.e. ProvisionedThroughput) is not emitted in the collection level but in the database level, so that the collection name is not available (i.e. “__empty” ) when the customer tries to filter the metric data by collection."

Please let me know if this helps.


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Hi @JIS-4881, just wanted to follow up on this thread. Please let us know if you have any follow up questions or the above answer helped.

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