Search Across the Tenancy

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Cloud Storage Manager's search bar lets you find any storage account, container, or blob across every connected subscription without scrolling through the tree. Useful when you know what you are looking for and want to get there fast.

Where to find it

The search bar sits at the top of every page in Cloud Storage Manager. Click it (or press the keyboard shortcut shown in the placeholder text) to focus.

What you can search for

Storage account names — partial or full.
Container names — partial or full, optionally scoped to one storage account.
Blob names — including path prefixes (e.g. backups/2026/).
Tags — if you tag storage accounts in Azure, the tags are searchable.

Search is case-insensitive and matches substrings anywhere in the name.

Filtering results

After a search returns results, filter the result list by:

Type — storage account, container, or blob.
Subscription — narrow to one of your connected subscriptions.
Region — Azure region (East US, West Europe, etc.).
Tier — Hot / Cool / Archive (for blobs).
Size range — minimum and maximum bytes.

Combine filters for things like "all blobs over 1 GB in Hot tier in East US that have not been accessed in 6 months" — a common cleanup-candidate query.

Drilling into a result

Click any result row to jump to that item in the Storage Account Explorer tree. The tree expands to show the result in context.

Common queries

"Where is account X?" — type the account name. The result shows which subscription and region it lives in.
"How much data lives in containers named logs?" — type logs, filter to type=container. Sum the sizes.
"Which blobs over 5 GB are sitting in Hot tier?" — type * (or leave empty), filter size ≥ 5 GB, tier = Hot. Hand-off the result list to a cleanup project.

Performance notes

Search runs against the scan data already loaded into Cloud Storage Manager, not directly against the Azure API. Results are instant. If you have just connected a new subscription, wait for the initial scan to complete before searching it — see Connect Azure subscriptions.