zlib_compress_to_base64_string()

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Applies to: ✅ Azure Data Explorer ✅ Azure Monitor ✅ Microsoft Sentinel

Performs zlib compression and encodes the result to base64.

Syntax

zlib_compress_to_base64_string(string)

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Parameters

Returns

• Returns a string that represents zlib-compressed and base64-encoded original string.
• Returns an empty result if compression or encoding failed.

Example

Using Kusto Query Language

print zcomp = zlib_compress_to_base64_string("1234567890qwertyuiop")

Output

Using Python

Compression can be done using other tools, for example Python.

print(base64.b64encode(zlib.compress(b'<original_string>')))

Related content

• Use zlib_decompress_from_base64_string() to retrieve the original uncompressed string.