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Generally Available: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines
Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.
April 2023
New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs
New capabilities recently released that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security, and more.
October 2022
Generally available: Kusto Trender
Kusto Trender is a new JavaScript client library for Kusto focused on IoT scenarios. It is now available on GitHub.
July 2022
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history
Data history is an integration feature of Azure Digital Twins.
March 2022
General availability: Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q1 2022
Machine Learning user-defined function in Stream Analytics allows you to perform high throughput, low latency, real-time predictions, allowing you to act on insights which have a very short shelf-life.
Azure Time Series Insights will be retired on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 31 March 2025 – transition to Azure Data Explorer
November 2021
General availability: New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf
This new output plugin allows you to write telemetry collected by any of the input plugins of Telegraf directly into Azure Data Explorer e.g. it makes SQL monitoring at scale better and affordable.
Public preview: Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse
Azure Synapse data explorer is optimized for efficient log analytics, using powerful indexing technology to automatically index structured, semi-structured, and free-text data commonly found in telemetry data.
June 2021
General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer
Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data.
April 2021
General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2
The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source.
December 2020
Ingress logs are now available for Azure Time Series Insights environments
Target availability: Q4 2020
Azure Time Series Insights has released Azure Monitor Logs for errors that occur in the ingress pipeline. This category includes errors that occur when receiving events (such as failures to connect to an Event Source) and processing events (such as errors when parsing an event payload).
November 2020
Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 Preview APIs Deprecated
Target availability: Q4 2020
The Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 public preview APIs have been deprecated. Read about the process for migrating onto the new generally available API version for Azure Time Series Insights Gen2.
September 2020
Azure Time Series Insights now supports AAD groups
Target availability: Q3 2020
Azure Time Series Insights now supports Azure Active Directory groups through access policies.
July 2020
IoT Plug and Play new features now in public preview
IoT Plug and Play new features in Public Preview to continue simplifying IoT.
Migrate to the new version of the Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 APIs
Read about the process for migrating onto the new generally available API version for Time Series Insights Gen2.
Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 is now generally available
Azure Time Series Insights Gen2, our pay-as-you-go IoT Analytics offering, is now generally available and features a number of new capabilities that are powerful, yet simple to use:
Notification of upcoming changes to Azure Time Series Insights web experience URL
Notification of changes coming to Azure Time Series Insights Web Experience URL
Azure Machine Learning studio web experience is generally available
Azure Machine Learning studio web experience is now generally available and bringing new features.
Upcoming changes to JSON flattening and storage for new Azure Time Series Insights deployments
Azure Time Series Insights is making changes to JSON telemetry data flattening and storage. These changes will go into effect 10 July 2020 for new deployments only.
June 2020
Azure CLI June 2020 update
The Azure CLI continues to expand with support for new Azure services. This release includes 23 new modules to manage as many Azure services.
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