Dropped sftp file upload

Moshi Musukwa 20 Reputation points
2025-07-02T18:36:00.1666667+00:00

A file was uploaded to our blob storage  via  sftp  by one of our vendors. Even though it showed the fle was sent it never made it to the xmlfiles container.See logs below. What could have been the cause?

weekly inventory valuation Report for 06/28/2025 weekly_inventory_valuation-20250629-141748.csv upload to ftp://XX.XX.XX.XX/ weekly_inventory_valuation-20250629-141748.csv upload to sftp://xxxx.blob.core.windows.net/ Job started 2025-06-29 14:17:48 and ended 2025-06-29 14:18:22  

 weekly inventory valuation Report for 06/28/2025 weekly_inventory_valuation-20250629-043001.csv upload to ftp://XX.XX.XX.XX/ weekly_inventory_valuation-20250629-043001.csv upload to sftp://XXXX.blob.core.windows.net/ Job started 2025-06-29 04:30:01 and ended 2025-06-29 04:30:37

Azure Data Lake Storage
Azure Data Lake Storage
An Azure service that provides an enterprise-wide hyper-scale repository for big data analytic workloads and is integrated with Azure Blob Storage.
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  1. Amira Bedhiafi 35,766 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-07-02T19:36:57.2733333+00:00

    Hello Moshi !

    Thank you for posting on Microsoft Learn.

    Usually when an SFTP file upload to Azure Blob Storage (via SFTP endpoint) shows as completed by the sender so the vendor might have uploaded the file to the wrong path or container.

    Each SFTP user is rooted to a specific container and if the file was uploaded to a different directory or subfolder, it won’t appear directly under xmlfiles.

    Even if the vendor system shows upload complete, it may have: a time out, a lost connectivity or an exceeded SFTP limits (max file size, throttling). Azure will not store partially transferred files. They vanish silently if the transfer fails before commit. You may need to check for incomplete files using Azure Monitoring or diagnostic logs and enable SFTP diagnostic logs via Storage account > Diagnostic Settings for future uploads.

    I recommend that you check the Activity Log, Soft Delete, or Blob Versioning (if enabled).

    If Soft Delete is on, go to the container and check Manage Deleted Blobs.


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