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February 2024

Feb 21

Sending a log search alert with cross tenant target resource will no longer be supported

NOW AVAILABLE

As of March 15, 2024, this behavior will change and sending a log search alert with a cross tenant target resource (except for the lighthouse case) will no longer be supported. Alerts will not be sent to unauthorized target resources, and log search alert rules with an unauthorized target will be ignored. This will ensure that only authorized users can receive and investigate log search alerts.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Features
Feb 1

Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: May 31, 2024

As of May 31, 2024, log alert rules will no longer support cross-workspace queries that use resource names or qualified name identifiers.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Retirements
  • Features

December 2023

Dec 11

Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Vancouver version

NOW AVAILABLE

The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services

November 2023

Nov 27

Public Preview: Create and manage Azure Monitor managed Prometheus rules in Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can now create and manage Azure Managed Prometheus rule groups, alert rules and recording rules in the Azure Portal

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Alerts
  • Features
Nov 13

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events

IN PREVIEW

​​​​​​​Azure Monitor alerts as a destination in Event Grid event subscriptions allow you to receive notification of critical events via action groups as Short Message Service (SMS), email, push notification, and more. You can leverage on the low latency event delivery of Event Grid with the flexibility and direct-to-customer notifications of Azure Monitor alerts.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
Nov 6

Ability to add dynamic values in Alert’s custom fields

NOW AVAILABLE

Alerts help you detect and address issues before users notice them by proactively notifying you when Azure Monitor data indicates there might be a problem with your infrastructure or application. We added to the Custom properties section in the alert payload ability to add dynamic value extracted from the alert payload, or a combination of both can be added to the alert notification payload.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 30

New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up

NOW AVAILABLE

During November, we will replace log search alerts (API version 2021-08-01 and up) that uses non-common schema template with an upgraded and more informative email template.

  • Alerts
  • Action Groups
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
Oct 10

LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan

NOW AVAILABLE

On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
Oct 2

Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)

IN PREVIEW

We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Resource Graph (ARG) tables, and even joining data between Azure Resource Graph (ARG) data sources from your Log Analytics workspace and Application Insights resources in a single query.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Alerts
  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 29

Action required: Migrate to using ARG query for “Get Alert Summary” in Azure Monitor

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: September 30, 2026

The GetAlertSummary API will be retired on 30-Sep-2026.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Retirements
  • Features

October 2020

Oct 13

New alert query examples topic in Log Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

The logs experience was recently updated with examples queries for common log alerts.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Alerts
  • Management
  • Features

May 2019

May 22

Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Monitor metric and log alerts

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Application Insights
  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

April 2019

Apr 22

General Availability: New Azure Monitor alerts experience available in Azure Government

NOW AVAILABLE

New Azure Monitor alerts experience is now available in Azure Government.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Management

February 2019

Feb 21

Azure Monitor status blog is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor Status blog provides timely updates on the health of Azure Monitor products (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Service Map, Azure Alerts).

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Application Insights
  • Alerts
  • Services
Feb 1

Extend alerts created in the Azure Government cloud's OMS portal to Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Government customers who use the OMS portal can now extend their log query–based alerts to the Azure portal.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Management
  • Retirements

October 2018

Oct 23

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Alerts (Classic)
  • Alerts
  • Metrics
  • Application Insights
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Management
  • Retirements
Oct 18

General availability: Metric alerts for logs

NOW AVAILABLE

Metric alerts for logs are generally available, enabling use of metric alerts for popular logs ingested by Log Analytics workspaces.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

July 2018

Jul 26

Public preview: Metric alerts for logs

IN PREVIEW

Metric alerts for logs are now in public preview, with no signup or enablement process.

  • Alerts
  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Management
  • Features

June 2018

Jun 16

Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated

Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated in the areas of email functionality, dependent modules, and runbooks.

  • Alerts
  • Automation
  • Gallery

May 2018

May 22

General availability: Log alerts for Application Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Log alerts for Application Insights are generally available as part of Azure Monitor.

  • Alerts
  • Application Insights
  • Management
  • Features

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