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Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
February 2024
Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in 30 regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 30 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
November 2023
General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity across ARC enabled endpoints as sources and destinations
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
August 2023
Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs
Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your Virtual Networks
March 2023
General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot
Azure Network Watcher announces enhanced connection troubleshoot helping resolve network connectivity issue comprehensively along with actionable insights
October 2022
Public preview: Azure resource topology
Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups.
Public preview: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity to ARC enabled endpoints.
June 2022
Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets
Azure Network Watcher packet capture announces support for virtual machines scale sets. This is as an out of the box, on-demand capability, enabling faster diagnostics and troubleshooting of networking issues.
Public preview: Connection Monitor Support for virtual machine scale sets
Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor announces support for virtual machine scale sets which enables faster performance monitoring and network troubleshooting through connectivity checks.
December 2021
General availability: New capabilities in Network Watcher Diagnostic tools to evaluate AVNM Security rules
Through updates to Network Watcher Diagnostic tools, you now have the ability to view and evaluate AVNM security rules in addition to the existing support of NSG security rules.
July 2021
General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics
Traffic Analytics can now be enabled using Built-in Azure Policy, thus improving your deployment experience. Now organizations can enforce org wide standards and manage traffic monitoring at scale using these policies.
General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics
Azure Network Watcher Traffic Analytics solutions is used to monitor network traffic. It now provides WHOIS and Geographic data for all Public IPs interacting with your deployments and further adds DNS domain, threat type & threat description for Malicious IPs. Now, it also supports inter-zone traffic and VMSS level traffic insights.
February 2021
We’re retiring Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor (classic) on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to the new Connection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher.
We’re retiring Network Performance Monitor on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to the new Connection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher.
January 2021
Built-in Azure Policy support for NSG Flow Logs is now available
Network security group (NSG) Flow Logs can now be deployed and managed using built-in Azure policies. You don't need to write your own policies to manage NSG Flow Log deployments.
November 2020
Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher is now generally available
Connection monitor provides unified end-to-end connection monitoring capabilities for hybrid and Azure deployments. It brings together the best of Network Performance Monitor and Connection Monitor (classic).
September 2020
Traffic Analytics & Diagnostics capabilities in Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Monitor for Network provides the starting point for network monitoring without any user configuration and provides access to all available network monitoring capabilities.
August 2020
Update your Traffic Analytics queries by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
Update Traffic Analytics log schema to use new fields in queries
July 2020
Introducing Azure Load Balancer Insights using Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Load Balancer customers now have instant access to a preconfigured solution for health monitoring and configuration analysis enabling rapid fault localization and informed design decisions.
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