Azure updates

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—September 2021

September updates include dashboard and analytics enhancements, improvements to device registration, and support for bring your own device keys.

• Azure IoT Central
• Features

General availability: Application Insights integration with App Services for Java & Node.js apps

Integration of Azure Monitor application insights with App Services now enables you to monitor your Java & Node.js apps directly from Azure portal, without making any changes to your code, with just a click of a button.

• App Service
• Azure Monitor
• Features

Query Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics (public preview)

Use T-SQL in Azure Synapse to read Delta Lake format.

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Features

Cognitive Services - New Computer Vision API v3.2 now generally available

Updated Computer Vision API now generally available to improve image tagging, content moderation, OCR language expansion, and more.

• Azure AI Vision
• Azure AI services
• Features

Wire Data 2.0 (preview) will be retired on 31 March 2022

Target retirement date: March 31, 2022

Because Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights and Service Map both provide network connection data sets in Logs, utilize the Dependency agent, and have connections with Azure Sentinel, we will be retiring Wire Data 2.0 (preview) on 31 March 2022. Please transition to using Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights or Service Map by that date.

• Azure Monitor
• Service Map
• Retirements

We are retiring Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v2.x on 29 February 2024

Target retirement date: February 29, 2024

Transition to Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v3.

• Azure AI services
• Retirements

Activity Log Alerts - Change in "Description" property in the alert payload now in development

Target availability: Q2 2020

Starting April 1, 2021, the fired alert property "Description“ will contain the alert rule description. A new property “Activity Log Event Description“ added to the Activity Log fired Alert payload that will replace the old property "Description“.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Azure resource logs for Azure Storage is now in public preview

With Azure Storage logs and native export options, it’s more convenient to troubleshoot issues on requests to your storage account.

• Storage Accounts
• Azure Monitor
• Features

SQL Server Analysis Services Virtual Machine images now available

SQL Server Analysis Services Virtual Machine images (in general availability) can help make your workloads more efficient, enable an easier onboarding experience and helps with viewing your different virtual machine workloads and managing them.

• SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• Management
• Features

Analysis Services Tabular improves MDX query performance in the cloud

With a recent update of the Analysis Services Tabular engine in Azure Analysis Services (AAS) and in Power BI, Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) clients, such as Microsoft Excel, can now enjoy improved query performance. This MDX performance improvement alleviates some of the optimization burden for measures used in a PivotTable.

• Azure Analysis Services
• Services
• Features

Redis Enterprise features on Azure Cache for Redis coming soon

Two new tiers will be coming soon in preview for Azure Cache for Redis through a collaboration with Redis Labs: Enterprise and Enterprise Flash.

• Azure Cache for Redis
• Features

Support to assess physical, AWS and GCP servers now generally available

The assessments offer Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning and performance-based rightsizing.

• Azure Migrate
• Features