Azure updates

Public preview: Azure Bastion Premium

Azure Bastion Premium SKU secures customers’ highly sensitive workloads with advanced monitoring and security features

• Azure Bastion
• Security
• Services
• Features

Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

Target availability: Q2 2024

Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering is now in Public Preview. Gain richer context and improved visibility into their workloads!

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Managed Grafana
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer health event logs

Azure Load Balancer now supports health event logs to help you identify and troubleshoot ongoing issues affecting your load balancer resource’s health.

• Load Balancer
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a suite of services that tackles observability, security, and compliance challenges in your containerized applications. Gain deep insights with Advanced Network Observability, our first feature of the suite that unlocks Hubble metrics, CLI, and UI for powerful traffic monitoring and performance optimization.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Network Watcher
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features
• Compliance

General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary

Activity log alert rules can now be saved in European regions, ensuring the alert metadata and processing remains within EU Data Boundary. 

• Azure Monitor
• Features
• Compliance

Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions

Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation

• HDInsight on AKS
• Regions & Datacenters
• Open Source
• Features

Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now surfaces default alerts via Azure Monitor for critical events such as replication health turning unhealthy, failover failures, agent expiry, and so on. You can monitor these alerts via the Azure Business Continuity Center, Azure Monitor dashboard, or your Recovery Services vault and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice (Email, ITSM, Webhook, SMS). 

• Azure Site Recovery
• Management
• Compliance

Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights

Container insights now supports out of the box visualizations using only managed Prometheus.

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Managed Prometheus
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews

View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Azure portal
• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Log Analytics is announcing Workspace Replication, a new capability that enhances workspace resilience by enabling you to switch your workspace operation to another region if your primary region isn’t healthy.

• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Microsoft Dev Box introduces new ready-to-code and enterprise management capabilities

Dev Box has been updated with several new developer productivity and enterprise management capabilities.

• Microsoft Dev Box
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management! This new feature enables customers to effortlessly configure token usage metrics to be sent directly to Azure Application Insights, providing insights into the utilization of Azure OpenAI models across various applications and teams.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management! This feature empowers customers to effectively manage and enforce limits on API consumers based on their usage of OpenAI tokens.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Monitoring Dashboard for Workflow Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Resubmissions

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're excited to announce the Public Preview release of UI dashboards for Logic Apps Standard, designed to enhance the monitoring, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of Logic Apps workflow runs and failures. This dashboard provides users with valuable insights into the health and performance of their workflows, empowering them to quickly identify and address any issues that may arise.

• Logic Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: Next-Gen Dashboards Experience in Azure Portal

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're adding a new Dashboards experience within the Azure Portal. You can use this feature in parallel to the current experience and it can be found in the Dashboard Hub and the Mobile App

• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: Monitor apps with Java metrics in Azure Container Apps

Use Azure Monitor to see Java metrics in Azure Container Apps and take advantage of all the Azure Monitor features.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: KEDA in the Azure Portal

You can now easily create and monitor your scaled objects all within the Portal interface.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024

Target availability: Q2 2024

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-May 2024.

• Azure SQL Database
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview - Major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16

Target availability: Q2 2024

In-place major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Microsoft Build
• Features