Materialized Views in Kusto databases are an important feature to provide multiple data granularity levels for the real-time ingested data.

The management of materialized views in Kusto is not the same as in other database systems. The management of backfilling and retention policies are specially important in the views.

You will also discover how critical the query used in the view can be. The query can poses a considerable impact in the server performance depending on how it's designed.

Let's discover the tricks and best practices for materialized views