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General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights
Target availability: Q2 2022
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for Azure Monitor Application helps ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested in your Application Insights resources.
Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent available on latest Linux distros
Ubuntu 22.04, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux now supported via the Azure Monitor Agent.
May 2022
Public preview: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in the Azure portal
Log Analytics Tables can now be managed from a new Tables (preview) entry of the Azure portal in Log Analytics workspaces.
Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights JavaScript web snippet auto-injection for node.js
Azure Monitor application insights node.js customers can enable web monitoring with a simple configuration.
Public preview: ContainerLogv2 schema in Azure Monitor container insights
Container insights now offers a new, lightweight schema for the container logs in ContainerLogv2.
Public preview: AIOps powered intelligent view in application maps
You can now use AIOps powered intelligent view in application map to filter out noise and find real issues faster.
Generally available: IT Service Management Integration with secure webhook
IT Service Management is now integrated with secure webhook, an updated version that allows you to create work items in an ITSM tool when Azure Monitor sends alerts.
April 2022
Public preview: Azure Monitor and Azure Managed Grafana integrations
New Grafana integrations with Azure Monitor include the ability to pin Azure Monitor visualizations from Azure Portal to Grafana dashboards and new out-of-the-box Azure Monitor dashboards.
Public preview: Azure Monitoring Agent supports custom and IIS logs
New collection types supported by Azure Monitoring Agent that extends beyond the standard data available today.
Public preview: Support for Windows clients using Azure Monitor agent
Using the new Windows client installer launched today, you can now get the benefits of the new agent and data collection rules on your Windows 10 and 11 client devices.
Generally available: new result set grid in Azure Monitor log analytics
The new result set grid in log analytics boasts a brand-new experience, introduces numerous new features, and is much easier to use!
Public preview: Azure Monitor activity log insights
Azure Monitor activity log insights let you view information about changes to resources and resource groups in a subscription.
Public preview: Redesign of alerts summary (landing) page
The summary (landing) page for alerts has been simplified to improve usability and actionability.
Public preview: Recommended alert rules for virtual machines
You can now enable a set of recommended alert rules for your existing virtual machines.
Public preview: Azure Backup supports metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs
You can now monitor the restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics.
March 2022
Azure Container Monitoring solution will be retired on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Migrate your workloads to Azure Monitor container insights by 31 March 2025.
Generally available: Support for private links in Azure Monitor agent
Use Azure Monitor agent and data collection rules in restricted environments and maintain network isolation by leveraging private links.
February 2022
Generally available: Log Analytics data export in Azure Monitor
Log Analytics data export is ready for production deployments, supporting most tables in Log Analytics workspaces.
Generally available: Alert processing rules in Azure Monitor
Alert processing rules (formerly action rules) provide post-processing capabilities for fired alerts in Azure Monitor.
Public preview: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets
Predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets can manage and scale your virtual machine scale sets by observing and learning from historical CPU usage patterns.
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