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HDInsight Enterprise Security Package now generally available 

HDInsight team is excited to reveal general availability (GA) of Enterprise Security Package (ESP) for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and Interactive Query clusters in HDI 3.6. When enterprise customers share clusters between multiple employees, Hadoop admins must ensure those employees have the right set of accesses and permissions to perform big data operations.

Published • 4 min read

A new way to send custom metrics to Azure Monitor 

In today’s world of modern applications, metrics play a key role in helping you understand how your apps, services, and the infrastructure they run on, are performing. They can help you detect, investigate, and diagnose issues when they crop up. To provide you this level of visibility Azure has made resource-level platform metrics available via Azure Monitor.

Published • 2 min read

Serial console for Azure VMs now generally available 

Earlier this year, we released the public preview of Azure Serial Console for Virtual Machines (VMs). Today we are announcing the general availability of Serial Console and we’ve added numerous features and enhanced performance to make Serial Console an even better tool for systems administrators, IT administrators, DevOps engineers, VM administrators, and systems engineers.