wadslogtable

We have a resource constantly creating completely empty WADMetrics tables on a storage account. We have a significant amount of Azure resources and are unable to locate what is creating them since they are completely empty. It appears 2 tables are created every 10 days designed to store data in 1Hour and 5Min buckets. How can we determine what is creating these tables? WAD stands for Windows Azure Diagnostics, which is probably enabled on a VM or other computing resource that uses this storage account for diagnostics. You can read more here about WAD and specifically about WADMetrics table. If

I've read conflicting information as to whether or not the WADLogsTable table used by the DiagnosticMonitor in Windows Azure will automatically prune old log entries. I'm guessing it doesn't, and will instead grow forever - costing me money. :) If that's the case, does anybody have a good code sample as to how to clear out old log entries from this table manually? Perhaps based on timestamp? I'd run this code from a worker role periodically. corvus The data in tables created by Windows Azure Diagnostics isn't deleted automatically. However, Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets contain cmdlets