Partial query failures

A partial query failure is a failure to run the query that gets detected only after the query has started the actual execution phase. By that time, Kusto has already returned the HTTP status line 200 OK back to the client, and can’t “take it back,” so it has to indicate the failure in the result stream that carries the query results back to the client. (In fact, it may have already returned some result data back to the caller.)

There are several kinds of partial query failures:

• Runaway queries: Queries that take up too many resources.
• Result truncation: Queries whose result set has been truncated as it exceeded some limit.
• Overflows: Queries that trigger an overflow error.
• Other runtime errors: For example, network errors when invoking a cross-cluster query, or errors received from a plugin, etc.

Partial query failures can be reported back to the client in one of two ways:

• By default, a JSON property bag holding the failure information appears as part of the result data, where a JSON array is normally expected.
• As part of the “QueryStatus” table in the result stream. To prevent failure information from appearing as part of the result data, set the deferpartialqueryfailures option in the request’s properties slot (Kusto.Data.Common.ClientRequestProperties.OptionDeferPartialQueryFailures). Clients that do that take on the responsibility to consume the entire result stream from the service, locate the QueryStatus result, and make sure no record in this result has a Severity of 2 or smaller.