Easy way to download a Cosmos DB from Azure

Question

I don't find how to download it. I'd like to do it for 2 reasons:

• Backup it to my computer
• Try to open it with Microsoft Excel

However, I don't find an easy way like clicking on a button to download it.

The only way seems to code a complex piece of code to go throw the whole database and export it in some format like JSON.

Am I right? Hopefully you found an easy way to download the database from Azure!

We clicked here:

But that csv doesn't contain any data, just information about databases

Answer 1

You could use Azure Data Factory and export your data e.g. to Blob Storage in CSV format. should be very easy to build with the copy wizard https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/quickstart-create-data-factory-copy-data-tool

The Export to CSV button that you showed above does only export the table of resources in the Azure Portal, it has nothing to do with Cosmos DB or even the data inside it.