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RSS feedFebruary 2022
Generally Available: Search results page improvements in Azure IoT Central
Filtering and highlighting matched values have been added to IoT Central search results allowing for richer search experience.
Generally available: Regional deployments for all new and existing IoT Central applications
All previously created IoT Central applications in a geography are now mapped to standard Azure region.
General Availability: IoT Edge monitoring with Azure Monitor
Use the latest IoT Edge Metrics collector module to send metrics to Azure Monitor and leverage updated visualizations to monitor and troubleshoot your IoT Edge devices.
January 2022
Generally available: Support for copying dashboards added to Azure IoT Central
Start reusing tiles and dashboards through the new Copy Dashboard feature in Azure IoT Central.
Generally available: Data mapping for transforming data at ingress in Azure IoT Central
Target availability: Q1 2022
Transform complex device telemetry into structured data inside Azure IoT Central so you can use that telemetry within Rules, Analytics, Dashboards and Data Export.
Generally available: Display limits on tiles increased to 100 homogeneous devices
You can now select and display up to 100 devices on a single tile within IoT Central.
November 2021
General availability: Data transformation at Export in Azure IoT Central
This update allows the ability for you to transform device data in IoT Central into your preferred structure and export that transformed data to an external destination.
General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central now supports System Assigned Managed Identity allowing you to configure secure data exports.
Public preview refresh: Azure IoT Central REST API new and updated endpoints
IoT Central REST API now supports a series of new API endpoints that you can access through the 1.1-preview endpoint.
General availability: Improved legends in IoT Central Analytics charts
Grouping by Device Name is now supported in IoT Central Analytics charts.
General availability: IoT Central - Organizations
IoT solution builders can now build an IoT solution once and onboard multiple tenants into it – keeping cost down and reducing management overhead.
October 2021
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.
September 2021
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—August 2021
August updates include support for multitenant applications, UI enhancements, REST API refresh, and regional deployments.
August 2021
Migrate your Azure IoT Central apps to version 3 before 1 March 2022
Target retirement date: March 01, 2022
IoT Central V2 is retiring 1 March 2022.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—July 2021
July updates include enhancements to device information displays and new features to help you manage your IoT Edge devices.
July 2021
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—June 2021
June updates include dashboard enhancements, the IoT Plug and Play smartphone app including updated quickstarts, rule condition enhancements, a new responsive UI, and a new Learn module.
June 2021
General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app
Use the IoT Plug and Play phone app as an IoT device to get started quickly with IoT Central or IoT Hub.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021
May updates include device template DTDL editing, displaying external content on dashboards, other UI and doc enhancements, and CDE parity with CDE v1.
May 2021
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—April 2021
April updates include API general availability, new guidance articles, dashboard updates, IoT Edge updates, and device connectivity events.
April 2021
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021
March updates include jobs, data export, monitoring, and documentation improvemnets.
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