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Application Insights is Generally Available in China East 2
Azure Application Insights is now generally available in China East 2 Region.
Azure Monitor Log now supports log search on multiple Azure resources
Many Azure services added support for new and easier way to search their logs
Azure Monitor for Containers: Enhanced search on live data and other updates available
Feature Updates enhanced search on live data, node storage/network performance on AKS, and data collection filter
June 2019
Application Insights Availability in Central US Region
Application Insights is now available in Central US region.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in SOUTH AFRICA NORTH, BRAZIL SOUTH, UK WEST and NORTH CENTRAL US
SOUTH AFRICA NORTH, BRAZIL SOUTH, UK WEST & NORTH CENTRAL US are now Public Preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage using Azure Log Analytics.
Azure Monitor for virtual machine scale sets are now in preview
Monitor your Windows and Linux virtual machine scale sets with Azure Monitor (in preview).
Log Analytics Agent for Windows 10.20.18001 now available
The Log Analytics Agent for Windows June release is available, and contains stability and reliability improvements.
VM Health feature now supports new OS' and is available in new regions
VM Health feature included in Azure monitor for VMs is now available for VMs that are running on Windows 2012 R2 and 2019. Additionally, VM Health feature is also available in cases where the associated workspace is in SEA (South East Asia), UKS (UK South), and CCAN (Canada Central) regions.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI updates
We are happy to share with you the latest updates to Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI
Application Insights connector will retire on June 30,2019
Application Insights Connector which provided a way to export Application Insights data to a Log Analytics workspace will retire on June 30, 2019.
Azure Monitor for containers - updates to live data settings
Azure Monitor for containers - updates to live data settings
Azure Monitor for Containers - Updates on Windows AKS Support, UI enhancement, and Node Storage Capacity
New features updates for Azure Monitor for Containers for Node Storage, Windows AKS support, and UI enhancements
May 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2. Around the world, it's available in seven public regions.
Log Analytics Agent for Linux 1.10 now available
The Log Analytics Agent for Linux v1.10 release is available, and contains important stability and reliability improvements.
Azure Monitor for VMs has a new data set for bound ports
The VMBoundPort data set is now available for Azure Monitor for VMs customers in all supported Log Analytics workspace regions, including East US and West Europe.
Azure Monitor AIOps alerts with Dynamic Thresholds is now generally available
With Dynamic Thresholds you no longer need to manually identify and set thresholds for alerts. The alert rule leverages advanced Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to learn metrics' historical behavior, identify patterns and anomalies that indicate possible service issues.
Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview
Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.
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.
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date extended to August 31st, 2019
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date which was originally scheduled for June 30th, 2019 is being extended to August 31st, 2019 to provide customers more time to voluntarily migrate their classic alerts. You can migrate your classic alerts today using the migration tool. After August 31st, 2019 we will perform an automatic migration on your behalf.
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