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Time Series Insights environment naming convention

The CAF abbreviation for Time Series Insights environment is tsi. Names can be 1 to 90 characters long and allow alphanumerics, hyphens and underscores. The name must be unique within the resource group.

Naming rules

CAF abbreviation	tsi
Length	1 to 90 characters
Allowed characters	Alphanumerics (a-z, A-Z, 0-9), hyphens, underscores
Scope of uniqueness	Unique within the resource group
CAF pattern	tsi-{workload}-{environment}-{region}-{instance}

Rules follow Microsoft's resource naming rules and CAF abbreviations. Some resource types have extra start/end character restrictions, so verify against the official docs before locking in a convention.

Example names

Generated by the same engine as the name generator, so length and character rules are already applied.

Scenario	Generated name	Length
Payments API, production	`tsi-payments-prod-eus-001`	25/90
Web app, development	`tsi-webapp-dev-weu-002`	22/90
Analytics with company prefix	`tsi-contoso-analytics-stage-uks-001`	35/90

Naming in Terraform and Bicep

Build the name from variables so one module produces the right name in every environment.

Terraform

locals {
  time_series_insights_name = "tsi-${var.workload}-${var.environment}-${var.region}-001"
}

Bicep

var timeSeriesInsightsName = 'tsi-${workload}-${environment}-${region}-001'

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See the full list of Azure resource naming rules or read the complete CAF naming guide.