Azure updates

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.

• Log Analytics
• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: April 19, 2024

Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings.

• Azure Advisor
• Retirements

Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability.

• Azure Monitor
• Metrics
• Managed Prometheus
• Features

Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks

Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Management
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts

Target availability: Q1 2024

Enable Prometheus community recommended alerts to monitor key signals to be promptly notified on potential critical issues within your clusters.

• Azure Monitor
• Managed Prometheus
• Alerts (Classic)
• Features

Generally Available: AKS cost views

The Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes namespaces cost views are now generally available in Cost analysis within Azure portal. You can view the aggregated costs for all your AKS clusters and namespaces across a subscription and drill down into infrastructure and namespaces costs of a cluster.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Management

Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for MySQL– Flexible Server

Target availability: Q1 2024

Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for MySQL- Flexible server.

• Azure Backup
• Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers
• Compliance
• Security
• Features

Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025

Target retirement date: April 01, 2025

The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider alternative cost management reporting for AWS available in the market.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Retirements

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.

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

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Network Watcher
• Open Source
• Services
• Features

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions

Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and was available in 26 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 13 additional regions.

• Managed Prometheus
• Azure Monitor
• Regions & Datacenters

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping for Prometheus instance served with TLS. To enable TLS and mTLS based scraping, you can configure the TLS settings in the ConfigMap.

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

Public preview: Change Actor

Change Actor allows you to see who initiated the change and with which client that change was made, for changes across all your tenants and subscriptions. 

• Azure Resource Graph
• Management
• Features

Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor

Target availability: Q1 2024

Initiate a self-serve experience of Assessments and manage their recommendations on Azure Advisor

• Azure Advisor
• Services
• Management

Public Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS

Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.

• Azure Backup
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Compliance
• Management
• Features

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Compliance
• Management
• Features