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Azure Monitor Network Insights is now generally available
Customers now have a single console for all their network monitoring requirements with Azure Monitor Network Insights
August 2020
Update your Traffic Analytics queries by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
Update Traffic Analytics log schema to use new fields in queries
February 2020
Azure Network Watcher is now generally available in four new regions
Azure Network Watcher is now generally available in UAE North, Switzerland North, Norway West and Germany West Central regions.
January 2020
New support for Network Security Group flow logs, a feature of Azure Network Watcher
Network Security Group (NSG) flow logs, a feature of Azure Network Watcher, now supports two new Azure Storage configurations.
September 2019
Monitor bandwidth usage for all peered Azure virtual networks with ExpressRoute
Monitor bandwidth use for all peered Azure virtual networks with an improvement to ExpressRoute, a capability of Network Performance Monitor.
July 2019
Network Performance Monitor is generally available in Central India
Network Performance Monitor is now available in the Central India region.
Network Watcher is now generally available in South Africa North
Network Watcher is available in South Africa North region.
May 2018
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Virtual Network Service Endpoints
Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure Cosmos DB is available in all regions of the Azure public cloud.
October 2014
New networking features now available in the North Europe region
New networking features such as Network Security Groups, Forced Tunneling, and Advanced Gateway Policies for Virtual Networks are now available in the Azure North Europe region.
General Availability: Traffic Manager Nested Profiles
Traffic Manager Nested Profiles enable you to create more flexible and powerful load balancing and failover schemes to support the needs of larger, more complex deployments.
July 2014
General Availability: Internal Load Balancing
Host middle tier or backend applications behind a private IP address that is visible only within your cloud service or Virtual Network.
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