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RSS feedSeptember 2021
Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace
Dynatrace OneAgent performance monitoring is now integrated in Azure Spring Cloud in collaboration with Dynatrace for end-to-end observability of Spring Boot applications.
August 2021
Azure Security Center: General availability updates for August 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in August 2021.
Enhanced troubleshooting experiences now generally available for additional resources in Network Insights
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 Database for PostgreSQL | Scheduled maintenance for Hyperscale (Citus) now generally available
Now Hyperscale (Citus) supports custom maintenance schedules with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
July 2021
Public preview: Alerts, Pacemaker cluster (RHEL OS) and data-size for SAP HANA
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.
Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in general availability
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.
June 2021
General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
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.
General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades
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.
Azure SQL: General availability updates for early June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021
May 2021
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in South India
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.
General availability: Application Insight in South India
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.
Public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor
A new workbooks-based insights experience for all log analytics workspaces available per resource, and at scale.
Generally available: Azure Health Bot adds new regions and languages for it’s systems checker
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.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—April 2021
April updates include API general availability, new guidance articles, dashboard updates, IoT Edge updates, and device connectivity events.
Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for April 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in April 2021.
April 2021
Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US
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.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India
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 Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) maintenance schedules in public preview
Now Hyperscale (Citus) supports custom schedules for maintenance – specify your preferred day of the week and 30-minute time window.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021
March updates include jobs, data export, monitoring, and documentation improvemnets.
General availability: Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Desktop
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.
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