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RSS feedJuly 2022
Public preview: Azure Load Testing now displays load engine health metrics
You can view engine health metrics to understand the performance of the test engine during the run, enabling confidence in the test results and better test configuration.
May 2022
Public preview: NGINX for Azure
Natively integrate SaaS solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.
Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights
Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.
Generally available: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions
Azure Functions dynamic concurrency feature simplifies configuring concurrency for your function apps using Service Bus, Storage Blobs, and Storage Queue triggers.
Azure VM insights guest health (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022
Target retirement date: November 30, 2022
Transition to Azure Monitor log alerts for VM guest health by 30 November 2022.
General availability: Virtual Network NAT health checks available via Resource Health
With Azure Resource Health, diagnose and get support for service problems that affect Virtual Network NAT (NAT gateway).
April 2022
Public preview: Health probes support in Azure Container Apps
You can now use readiness, liveness, and startup probes in your Azure Container Apps.
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
IoT connector preview feature in Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2022
Target retirement date: September 30, 2022
Migrate to MedTech service feature which provides stronger security and supportability.
Public preview: Enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer for Azure Applied AI Services
Azure Form Recognizer now supports extraction from custom documents, W-2 forms, access to the read API, additional human languages and enhancements.
January 2022
General availability: Azure API Management updates in January 2022
Regular API Management service updates for January 2022 with new features, bug fixes, and other improvements.
Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.
Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses.
December 2021
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): New toolkit certifications generally available
New Toolkit certifications are now available on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
November 2021
General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall
Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.
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: 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.
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 Spring Cloud application health monitoring and end-to-end TLS/SSL
Application lifecycle and health monitoring with Azure Activity log and Azure Service Health, and end-to-end TLS/SSL are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud.
September 2021
Azure Resource Health for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview
With Azure Resource Health, diagnose and get support for service problems that affect Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
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