Storage Account Explorer

The Storage Account Explorer is Cloud Storage Manager's main navigation surface — a tree of every subscription, storage account, container, and blob across your scanned Azure tenancies, with size, growth, and tier context at each level.

Where to find it

Storage Account Explorer is the default view when Cloud Storage Manager opens. If you've navigated elsewhere, click the Explorer tab in the left navigation.

What the view shows

A familiar tree on the left, details on the right:

Tree levels:

• Subscription — root nodes for each subscription you connected (see connect Azure).
• Storage account — every account in the subscription, with total size and growth indicator.
• Container — blob containers + file shares within each account.
• Blob / file — individual items with size, last modified, tier, and content type.

Details panel:

Whatever you select in the tree, the right panel shows its properties — size, creation date, last access, tags, geo-replication settings, current tier, and any other metadata Azure exposes.

Common workflows

Find the biggest storage account

Expand a subscription. Sort accounts by Size descending in the right panel summary. The top result is the largest account in that subscription.

Drill into a specific container

Expand the storage account, click the container of interest. The right panel lists the blobs with size, tier, and last-modified columns. Sort by size to find what is consuming the space.

Inspect a single blob

Click any blob in the tree. The details panel shows the full properties Azure exposes: tier (Hot / Cool / Archive), last access time, content type, MD5 hash, ETag, version ID (if versioning is enabled), and the full URL.

Jump to Azure portal in context

Right-click any item in the tree → Open in Azure Portal. Cloud Storage Manager launches the portal URL for that exact item, signed in to the right subscription.

Bulk-action blobs

Right-click a container or a selected set of blobs → action menu. The actions cover tier changes (see tiering), deletions, and copying details to clipboard. Bulk actions confirm before applying.

Sorting and filtering

Each level supports sort and filter:

• At subscription level — sort accounts by size, growth, region, or tier mix.
• At account level — sort containers by size or last-modified.
• At container level — sort blobs by size, tier, last-modified, or last-accessed.

When a value shows "Not available"

Some metadata depends on Azure features that may not be enabled on your accounts:

• Last access time requires the storage account to have access-time tracking enabled. Without it, the column shows "Not available".
• Version ID is only populated for accounts with blob versioning enabled.
• Lifecycle policy matches only show when the storage account has a lifecycle policy configured.

These are Azure limitations, not Cloud Storage Manager limitations. Enable the feature on the account in the Azure portal to populate the column.

See also

• Search across the tenancy — for finding specific items without browsing.
• Top reports — the largest-N views derived from this data.
• Tiering actions — for blob-tier optimisation.

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