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September 2021

1 Sep

Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace

IN PREVIEW

Dynatrace OneAgent performance monitoring is now integrated in Azure Spring Cloud in collaboration with Dynatrace for end-to-end observability of Spring Boot applications.

  • Features

August 2021

31 Aug

Azure Security Center: General availability updates for August 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in August 2021.

  • Security Center
  • Security
  • Services
18 Aug

Enhanced troubleshooting experiences now generally available for additional resources in Network Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now access resource topology views and pre-built monitoring workbooks for Private Link, NAT Gateway, Public IP, and NIC resources in Azure, via Network Insights.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
18 Aug

Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Scheduled maintenance for Hyperscale (Citus) now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Now Hyperscale (Citus) supports custom maintenance schedules with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Open Source
  • Features

July 2021

19 Jul

Public preview: Alerts, Pacemaker cluster (RHEL OS) and data-size for SAP HANA

IN PREVIEW

SAP on Azure customers can now set threshold-based alerts in the SAP application, in databases and in clusters using the Azure portal with a few clicks.

  • Features
14 Jul

Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in general availability

NOW AVAILABLE

Now generally available, Azure Monitor insights and Azure Monitor workbooks make it easier to visualize and customize metrics for dynamic monitoring of your Azure Cosmos DB resource.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Management
  • Features

June 2021

24 Jun

General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health

NOW AVAILABLE

Now generally available, use Text Analytics for Health to detect words and phrases mentioned in unstructured text as entities in the healthcare and biomedical domain.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Features
17 Jun

General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades

NOW AVAILABLE

Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with all the safety checks in place.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Management
  • Features
9 Jun

Azure SQL: General availability updates for early June 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features

May 2021

26 May

General availability: Azure Log Analytics in South India

NOW AVAILABLE

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 South India.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters
26 May

General availability: Application Insight in South India

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in South India region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Regions & Datacenters
25 May

Public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor

IN PREVIEW

A new workbooks-based insights experience for all log analytics workspaces available per resource, and at scale.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
18 May

Generally available: Azure Health Bot adds new regions and languages for it’s systems checker

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Health Bot's new regions empower customers to build critical business applications by hosting database in the same region as the application stack and close to customers for better performance.

  • Health Bot
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
11 May

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—April 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

April updates include API general availability, new guidance articles, dashboard updates, IoT Edge updates, and device connectivity events.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
3 May

Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for April 2021

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in April 2021.

  • Security Center
  • Security
  • Services

April 2021

28 Apr

Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US

IN PREVIEW

Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in the following list of regions South India West Central US.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Regions & Datacenters
28 Apr

Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India

IN PREVIEW

Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in South India.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters
14 Apr

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) maintenance schedules in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Now Hyperscale (Citus) supports custom schedules for maintenance – specify your preferred day of the week and 30-minute time window.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Features
13 Apr

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

March updates include jobs, data export, monitoring, and documentation improvemnets.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
1 Apr

General availability: Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Desktop

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Desktop provides a centralised view of the health of your Azure Virtual Desktop environment and enables you to optimise your deployment and quickly troubleshoot issues.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Services

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