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Public preview: Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive
Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive on September 1, 2022.
Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters
Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes.
General availability: Update on metric alert rules on custom metrics
Metric alert rules that monitor custom metrics can now be saved in four European regions: North Europe, West Europe, Sweden Central, and Germany West Central
Generally available: Action groups can now be saved and processed within Europe
Action groups can now be saved in European regions Sweden Central and Germany West Central (in addition to the default “global” region).
Generally available: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Backup, via Azure Monitor.
August 2022
Generally available: Enterprise-ready Azure Monitor change analysis capability released
Azure Monitor change analysis, which extends observability into Azure, is announcing general availability with enhanced performance and security, improved change data quality, and easy navigation from the Azure Monitor portal.
Public preview: Use managed identity-based authentication to enable Azure Monitor container insights
Announcing public preview for enabling container insights with managed identity authentication.
Public preview: Azure Monitor basic logs, archive, restore and search jobs
Azure Monitor Logs is in public preview in four new regions: US Virgina Gov, US Arizona Gov, China East 3, and China North 3.
Generally available: Azure Monitor container insights agent renaming
Container insights agent is being renamed from OMSAgent to Azure Monitor agent, along with some related resource name changes. Please update your alerts, queries, and scripts to avoid any issues.
Generally available: Azure Monitor Logs data export supports application insights tables
Investigate alert incidences with Azure Monitor Logs connector scoped to the exact time range of alert.
Public preview: Container insights portal integration with basic logs
Container insights customers using basic logs on the ContainerLogV2 schema (preview) can now get the same drill-in querying experience in the portal as with analytics logs at a reduced cost.
Generally available: Azure Monitor metric alerts dynamic thresholds outage detection
Azure Monitor metric alerts with dynamic thresholds detection, leverages advanced machine learning (ML) to learn metrics' historical behavior and identify patterns and anomalies that indicate…
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in China North 3 and China East 3
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for you to start collecting telemetry and analyzing your services for health and usage in China North 3 and China East 3.
General availability: Application Insights in China North 3 and China East 3
Application Insights, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in China North 3 and China East 3 regions for you to collect telemetry and analyze your service health in production environments.
July 2022
Public preview: Enhanced experience to opt in to improved backup alerting
Move to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup with just a few clicks.
Public preview: Migration tools for Azure Monitor Agent
Migration to the cost-effective, secure, performant, and manageable new Azure Monitor agent is now made easy using migration tools and helpers.
General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for Azure Monitor Application helps ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested in your Application Insights resources.
General availability: Application Insights standard test for synthetic monitoring
Standard tests are a single request test which also includes SSL certificate validity, proactive lifetime check, HTTP request verb, custom headers, and custom data associated with your HTTP request.
Public preview: Container Insights now supports Windows Server 2022
Container Insights now supports the Windows Server 2022 operating system.
Public preview: User-assigned Managed Identity support for Azure Monitor Agent
Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) provides a secure, cost-effective, simplified, performant way to collect telemetry data from IaaS resources. It now supports installation and authentication at-scale using Managed Identity user-assigned mode.
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