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RSS feedApril 2020
Azure Advisor data in Azure Resource Graph is now available
This release enables many at-scale scenarios for consuming the Azure Advisor best practice recommendations, including querying Advisor recommendations for all your subscriptions and building your own custom views of Advisor recommendation data.
November 2019
Azure Logic Apps updates for September and October 2019
The Azure Logic Apps updates for September and October 2019 include features, connector updates, and announcements about regional deployments.
New Azure Advisor recommendation category: operational excellence
Azure Advisor is launching a new category of recommendations called operational excellence. This new category will help you follow best practices for process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment.
October 2019
Azure Advisor cost recommendation enhancements
Advisor has made enhancements to its popular cost recommendation to resize or shut down under-utilized virtual machines. Although certain scenarios result in low utilization by design, you can often save money by managing the size and number of your virtual machines.
September 2019
Azure Cosmos DB recommendations keep you on the right track
Azure Cosmos DB gets updated frequently, so to make it easier to stay up-to-date, we’ve introduced automatic and tailored recommendations for all Azure Cosmos DB users.
Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview
Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.
July 2019
Azure portal July 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal updates include updates to Azure Security Center, the ability to use ephemeral OS disks on Azure VMs, sending Windows diagnostics data to Azure Monitor and more.
June 2019
Improved integration of Azure Security Center with Azure Advisor is now available
You can now get clear visibility and reporting for your Azure Security Center recommendations in Azure Advisor
Enhanced experience for Azure Advisor security recommendations
Manage your Security Center recommendations through Advisor UI, API, CLI, or PowerShell. Remediate recommendations quickly with bulk actions. Follow more than 20 new best practice recommendations for availability, performance, and cost.
November 2018
Additional workload insights for advanced performance tuning with SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Advisor and Azure Monitor are configured by default for SQL Data Warehouse to automatically deliver you workload insights at no additional cost. We have now enhanced this experience.
October 2018
September 2018
Public preview: Azure Cost Management
Azure Cost Management is in preview. It can help you understand how and where you're accruing costs in the cloud, and how to keep costs down.
SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights
Get intelligent insights to ensure your data warehouse is consistently optimized for performance with SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights.
Azure Advisor: New recommendations and tighter integrations
Additional recommendations are now available in Azure Advisor, your personalized guide to Azure best practices. Advisor is a free service that helps you optimize your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security, and improve reliability.
August 2018
Automatic recommendations help optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse
Automatic intelligent insights to optimize performance with SQL Data Warehouse
November 2017
Azure Advisor—New dashboard, downloadable reports, and Advisor configuration
Azure Advisor, now generally available, is your personalized cloud service for Azure best practices that will help you optimize Azure resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost.
Azure Advisor: New dashboard, downloadable reports, and configuration
Azure Advisor brings an all-new dashboard to help you more easily review the overall status of your recommendations across multiple subscriptions, downloadable reports, and customization options.
March 2017
General availability: Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is generally available. It's a personalized recommendation guide that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure resources.
December 2016
Query Store is turned on by default for Azure SQL Database
Effective immediately, Query Store is turned on by default in all new and existing databases in Azure SQL Database (including elastic database pools).
September 2016
Improved automatic tuning boosts Azure SQL Database performance
Now customers can run their production workload in SQL Database for a day, and Advisor will provide relevant tuning recommendations to improve performance.
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