title: Azure Monitoring Logs VS Azure Data Explorer
body: <p>I am trying to understand difference between Azure Log Analytics and Azure Data Explorer(ADX). While reading the documentation what I understood is that the Log Analytics is the web tool for creating/editing queries to pull data from Azure Monitoring Logs, data is collected by azure's monitoring logs and stored in workspaces which can be queried using log analytics KQL. What confuses me is <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/data-platform-logs#relationship-to-azure-data-explorer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this section</a> in documentation, as per this, Monitoring Logs are similar to ADX, data is stored similarly in tables and uses same KQL to query the data.</p>
  <p>Can someone help in understanding the differences.</p>