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Application Insights Availability in US West Region
Application Insights is now available in US West region.
Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Monitor metric and log alerts
PowerShell cmdlets for new metric alerts and log alerts are now available. This release improves the management of alert rules by providing cmdlets to create, update, delete and list new metric alerts. Similarly, new cmdlets are available for creating, updating, deleting and listing log alerts for both Log Analytics and Application Insights.
Application Insights Availability in Azure US Gov Virginia Region
Application Insights is now available in US Gov Virginia region.
April 2019
General Availability: Application Insights is now available in East Asia and East US 2
Azure Application Insights is now available in East Asia and East US 2.
March 2019
New tool available to migrate from classic monitoring alerts
Target retirement date: June 30, 2019
Classic alerts are scheduled to retire, and now you can automatically migrate them to the new Azure Monitor platform.
Application Insights is now available in France Central and Korea Central
Application Insights is now available in France Central and Korea Central.
Upcoming change to Azure Monitor Application Insights Smart Detection emails
On April 1, 2019, we’re changing the default roles that receive email notifications from Azure Monitor Application Insights Smart Detection. The new default roles are Monitoring Reader and Monitoring Contributor.
February 2019
Remove Application Insights connections via PowerShell
To stop application data from reaching your workspace after OMS portal deprecation, remove existing connections by using a PowerShell script.
Application Insights is now available in Australia East and Japan East
Application Insights is now available in Australia East and Japan East.
Azure Monitor status blog is now available
Azure Monitor Status blog provides timely updates on the health of Azure Monitor products (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Service Map, Azure Alerts).
December 2018
Application Insights is available in UK South
Azure Application Insights is now available in UK South.
October 2018
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor to retire in June 2019
Target retirement date: August 31, 2019
The classic alerting and monitoring functionality in Azure Monitor is scheduled for retirement.
Application Insights is available in Central India and Canada Central
Application Insights is now available in Central India and Canada Central.
August 2018
New log experience in the Azure portal
We have brought the Analytics portal in Application Insights and the Advanced Analytics portal in Log Analytics into the Azure portal.
July 2018
Free course on the Log Analytics query language (KQL) now available
Learn KQL (the query language used in Application Insights and Log Analytics). Go from a beginner to a pro in just a few hours through a free, exercise-driven course.
All Analytics custom logs are now grouped under the schema “Custom Logs” category
Tables for custom logs now appear in the "Custom Logs" category, rather than the "Log Management" category.
New features for Azure dashboard tiles: resize and edit query
There's a new option to resize and edit the query of Log Analytics and Application Insights Analytics tiles pinned to Azure dashboards.
June 2018
Application Insights multistep web tests GUID migration
Effective August 1, 2018, we’re making a change that will allow web tests to be paid with MSDN credits. This change will affect the GUID.
Tags to group, filter, and search APIs, operations, and products
Users can add and manage tags—text labels—to APIs, operations, and products. Tags allow better group, filter, and search in deployments with a large number of entities.
Azure API Management integration with Azure Application Insights
The Azure API Management integration with Azure Application Insights is now available. With this integration, you now have the ability to troubleshoot and debug APIs more effectively by adding API Management telemetry into Application Insights,
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