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November 2021

5 Nov

Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job

IN PREVIEW

We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
2 Nov

General availability: Stream Analytics now offers support for Availability Zones with Dedicated Cluster

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Availability Zones enabled Stream Analytics allows you to run mission-critical applications with higher availability and fault tolerance to datacenter failures. 

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

4 Oct

Azure Stream Analytics: 2 new regions are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 2 new China regions.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters

September 2021

17 Sep

Azure Stream Analytics: 3 new regions are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 3 new regions.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters

July 2021

27 Jul

General Availability: Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code is for developers to easily author, test, debug, and manage Azure Stream Analytics jobs.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features

May 2021

18 May

Azure Stream Analytics: 5 new regions are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 5 new regions.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters

March 2021

2 Mar

Azure Stream Analytics Dedicated now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics Dedicated offers a single-tenant clustered deployment of Stream Analytics for complex and demanding streaming scenarios.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Services

December 2020

18 Dec

Additional support for managed identity in Azure Stream Analytics now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics now supports managed identity for Blob input, Event Hubs (input and output), Synapse SQL Pools and customer storage account. As a result, customers do not have to manage service-to-service credentials by themselves, and can process events when streams of data are coming from Event Hubs in a VNet or using a firewall.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Event Hubs
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
  • Security
17 Dec

Support for reference data up to 5GB and new improvements in Azure Stream Analytics now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest update of Azure Stream Analytics, now deployed in every supported region, provides support for larger reference data ( up to 5 GB), and add support for composite keys for blob output partitioning.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features

October 2020

2 Oct

New analytics and windowing capabilities in Stream Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest update of Azure Stream Analytics includes extended SQL language operators such as new windowing and analytics functions; and improvements of existing features.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features
1 Oct

Public preview of Azure Stream Analytics unit testing capability in an CI/CD pipeline

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Stream Analytics CI/CD tools are now updated with query unit testing capability. Users can now add and run automated test cases for their queries.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features

September 2020

22 Sep

High throughput output from Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics (General Availability)

NOW AVAILABLE

With a brand new output connector to Synapse SQL Pools, Stream Analytics can now support throughput rates even higher than 200MB/sec while ensuring ultra-low latencies.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
22 Sep

Azure Stream Analytics clusters with VNet support (Preview)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics clusters delivers support for Azure Virtual Network (VNet) and more predictable performance.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features

August 2020

28 Aug

Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics is now available on Azure Stack Hub via IoT Edge Runtime.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Stack Hub
  • Features

July 2020

23 Jul

Azure Stream Analytics is now available in the US Gov Arizona region

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics, a real-time analytics service that is designed for mission-critical workloads, is now available in the US Gov Arizona region.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters
16 Jul

Azure Stream Analytics—Debug queries using job diagram in Visual Studio Code is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

A new feature in Visual Studio Code that enables you to debug Azure Stream Analytics queries using job diagram is now available.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Features
7 Jul

Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Features

May 2020

20 May

Azure Stream Analytics now supports error codes in activity and resource logs

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics now supports the use of activity logs and resource logs for troubleshooting errors related to configuration, data, and both upstream and downstream services.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features
19 May

Authenticate Azure Stream Analytics to Azure SQL Database using managed identities (preview)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics now supports managed identity authentication with Azure SQL Database.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
19 May

High throughput output from Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics (preview)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics jobs now have the ability to output to an existing SQL pool table in Azure Synapse Analytics, and to process throughput rates up to 200 MB/s.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features

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