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Authenticate Azure Monitor logs connector in Logic App with managed identity
When you enable managed identity authentication in Logic App, and grant it permissions in Log Analytics workspace, or Application Insights component, you can query data without needing...
December 2021
General availability: Audit Logs of Azure Monitor log queries
Azure Monitor logs is announcing a new capability to collect audit logs about query execution
November 2021
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.
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.
August 2021
General availability: Lower capacity reservation tier for Azure Monitor dedicated clusters
Leverage advanced features in Azure Monitor like customer-managed key, Lockbox, infrastructure encryption for lower capacity reservation commitment.
January 2021
Changes in Azure Monitor Logs for the AzureDiagnostics table is now available
Azure Monitor Logs will now allow more than 500 dimensions to be collected to the AzureDiagnostics table by introducing an “overflow” column.
October 2020
Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export is in public preview
You can now enable continuous data export from your Log Analytics workspaces to an Azure Storage Account or Azure Event Hubs.
New alert query examples topic in Log Analytics
The logs experience was recently updated with examples queries for common log alerts.
August 2020
Log Analytics new System Center configuration blade
System center configuration now has it’s own dedicated blade in Log Analytics.
Line numbers in Log Analytics query editor
Log Analytics query editor now show line numbers when composing a query
July 2020
Azure Monitor Log Analytics Quick Start content is moving to the Overview page
Target availability: Q3 2020
In order to simplify and streamline Azure Monitor Logs, we're moving all links and content from the Quick Start page to the Overview page. The Quick Start page will be removed in August 2020.
Azure Log Analytics saved searches functionality is moving to query explorer
Azure Log Analytics saved searches functionality is now available in query explorer.
June 2020
Improvements to Azure Monitor log alerts include new links and added dimensions
Updates to log alerts in Azure Monitor include new links to the Log Analytics API and links filtered by dimensions. Dimensions are also now included in the payload of most action types.
A new consolidated API version in Azure Monitor Logs is now available
A new API version for Azure Monitor Logs resource provider, 2020-03-01-preview, is now available. This API supports new functionality like customer-managed keys (CMK), bring your own storage (BYOS), along with other capabilities.
May 2020
Log Analytics New Query Experience - Example Queries
Introducing the new Example Query experience in Log Analytics. Example queries are now “front and centre” complete with a brand new look and over 250 example queries for our top Azure resources
Azure Monitor Logs IntelliSense improvements are now available
Target availability: Q2 2020
Azure Monitor Logs IntelliSense has been upgraded. IntelliSense now features a variety of new features and enhancements designed to make query and insight creation quicker and easier.
Improved Azure Monitor Logs workspace delete and recovery experiences
Workspace soft-delete functionality has been added to help you recover your workspace if necessary. In that situation, the workspace goes into a soft-delete state to allow its recovery, including data and connected agents within 14 days. It’s also possible to override the soft-delete behaviour and permanently delete your workspace.
Select multiple resources in Azure Monitor Logs
Azure Monitor Logs now supports the selection of multiple resources of the same type across scopes.
Azure Monitor Logs – Additional improvements made to tables side pane
The Azure Monitor Logs tables sidepane was improved with additional features and capabilities, including column descriptions and direct links to documentation.
February 2020
Azure Monitor Log Analytics now has new, upgraded visualisations
Target availability: Q1 2020
Azure Monitor Log Analytics has greatly improved the ability to visualise logs data.
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