Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Updates to profiler and tracing capabilities in Azure Monitor Application Insights
The ability to specify CPU and memory thresholds for the Application Insights Profiler is now available, so you now have better control of when to collect traces.
New Azure Monitor Application Insights agent is now available
For customers who have ASP.NET applications hosted on Azure Virtual Machines running IIS, we’re adding a new “codeless” onboarding method that uses an agent and doesn’t require access to the code.
Azure Monitor Workbooks is now generally available
Azure Monitor Workbooks gives you a single tool that can combine text, analytic queries, metrics, and parameters into a rich interactive report that you can share with your team members.
Troubleshoot network issues faster with Azure Monitor
The network insights feature (in preview) in Azure Monitor provides a single dashboard that gives you visibility into network topology, dependencies, health, and other key metrics for related network resources.
Live performance metrics and live deployments in Azure Monitor for containers
The ability to see live performance metrics and live deployments in Azure Monitor for containers for your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster is now available. Together with the live events and live logs features, you can get a near real-time performance and health view of your AKS cluster and troubleshoot issues faster.
Azure Monitor for containers Prometheus integration is now generally available
Azure Monitor for containers can now scrape your Prometheus metrics and store them on your behalf, without you having to operate your own Prometheus collection and storage infrastructure.
Easily test pull request changes in the context of broader applications
With the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Dev Spaces, and GitHub Actions pull request flow, you can easily test your pull request changes in the context of a broader application. Automatically create review apps before any changes are merged into the repo's main branch.
UTF-8 support for Azure SQL Database is now available
UTF-8 support is now generally available for Azure SQL Database, allowing more options to companies extending their businesses to a global scale, where the requirements of providing global multilingual database applications and services is critical to meet customer demands, and specific market regulations.
Azure Arc enabled API Management is now available in preview
Azure Arc enabled API Management allows customers to leverage a self-hosted API gateway, that expands API Management support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments and enables Azure customers to efficiently and securely manage APIs hosted on-premises and across clouds from a single API Management service in Azure.
.Net application assessments in Data Access Migration Toolkit are now available
Support for .Net application assessments using the Data Access Migration Toolkit is now available.
Azure ExpressRoute for satellites is now available
ExpressRoute, with one of the largest networking ecosystems in the public cloud, now includes satellite connectivity partners, bringing new options and coverage.
Azure Internet Analyzer is now in preview
Internet Analyzer is now available in preview. It delivers data-driven performance reporting across multiple endpoints for internet app and content migration and delivery.
Azure Time Series Insights—New capabilities to derive more insights from IoT data
Azure Time Series Insights has new capabilities that will help organizations to derive insights from their IoT data. Building upon our extensive analytic capabilities and rich visualizations, the new features in Time Series Insights will help companies detect and diagnose anomalies and drive operational efficiency with IoT data.
Azure generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available
Generation 2 VMs are now generally available in Azure. New available features include Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), support for large VMs (up to 12 TBs), and the ability to provision OS Disks sizes that exceed 2 TBs.
Easier diagnostics and logging with Azure Kubernetes Service is now in preview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)diagnostics help you troubleshoot and diagnose problems with your AKS clusters.
Azure Data Factory wrangling data flows is now in preview
Azure Data Factory wrangling data flows are now in preview.
Azure Monitor for containers now supports monitoring containers on-premises and on Azure Stack
For customers who have hybrid environments, we’re now extending support to monitor Kubernetes clusters on-premises and on Azure Stack with AKS Engine (in preview).
New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines are now available.
New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines (VMs) based on AMD EPYC™ are now available. They are ideal for general purpose and memory intensive workloads.
Generally Available: AKS cluster autoscaler
Scale more efficiently and automatically scale a Kubernetes cluster to meet demand.
New App Service Integration with Azure Monitor (preview)
App Service now has improved integration with Azure Monitor, the cloud's centralized telemetry service. This gives development and operations teams greater insight into their Windows and Linux web apps.
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