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RSS feedDecember 2021
Azure Monitor containers insights preview version for Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.x will be retired by 31 May 2022
Target retirement date: May 31, 2022
Transition to Container Insights by 31 May 2022.
Public preview: Measure product effectiveness with new user analytics experience in Application Insights
A new experience based on Google’s “HEART framework” helps you measure product effectiveness.
Public preview: Azure Monitor action rules are now 'alert processing rules'
We are enhancing the preview of alert processing rules with capabilities for richer at-scale management.
General availability: Audit Logs of Azure Monitor log queries
Azure Monitor logs is announcing a new capability to collect audit logs about query execution
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.
November 2021
Public preview: New SAP HANA telemetry in AMS
SAP HANA license status, delta merges, and more telemetry now available in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions.
Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET6 App Services
With the release of .NET 6.0, Application Insights is offering day-zero auto-instrumentation support for it on Azure App Services
General availability: Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes is now generally available. You can now monitor all Kubernetes, AKS or non-AKS through container insights.
General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall
Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.
Public preview: Manage your Log Analytics data export rules in Azure portal
Data export rules in Azure Monitor log analytics can now be configured and managed directly via Azure Portal with ease.
General availability: Log Analytics Workspace Insights in Azure Monitor
Log Analytics Workspace Insights provides rich insights on usage, performance, health, agents, queries, and a change log.
General availability: EventHub action in Azure Monitor action groups
The new EventHub action enhances your alert configuration capabilities.
Public preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters provide a vendor-neutral way to instrument your application and send telemetry to Application Insights.
Public preview: Metrics and Metric alerts for Azure Backup
Azure Backup now provides built-in metrics to enable you to monitor the health of your backups and write custom alert rules on these metrics.
October 2021
General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights
Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights support for Availability Zones is now generally available in West US 2
Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights are now support Availability Zones capability in West US 2.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East.
General availability: Azure Monitor application insights in Azure Spring Cloud
Azure is making it easier to observe Java Spring Boot workloads running on Azure Spring Cloud with application insights.
General availability: Azure Monitor container insights portal experience update
Refreshed experience with accessibility updates and new reliable recommended alerts & metrics for monitoring your container resources.
September 2021
Public preview: Distributed tracing for Java apps on Azure Functions Linux
Distributed tracing for Java apps on Azure Functions can now be enabled through Azure portal. This integration provides additional insights into end-to-end transactions that were not previously supported, completes the application map, which aggregates many transactions to show a topological view your system, and lets you detect and diagnose performance bottlenecks.
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