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RSS feedJune 2020
Recommended code changes to accommodate updates to Azure Time Series Insights
Target availability: Q2 2020
Upcoming changes to numeric data storage and query behaviour in Azure Time Series Insights Preview might affect your environment. Follow the recommended Type Variable and client code updates to avoid a disruption in service.
December 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs now stores data in dedicated data types
Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.
November 2019
Azure Stream Analytics – Real-time scoring with custom machine learning models
Azure Stream Analytics now supports high-performance, real-time scoring by taking advantage of custom pre-trained machine learning models that are managed by Azure Machine Learning service and hosted in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances, using a workflow that doesn’t require users to write any code.
Azure Time Series Insights – New capabilities for deriving more insights from IoT data
Azure Time Series Insights has new capabilities that will help organisations to derive insights from their IoT data. Building upon our extensive analytic capabilities and rich visualisations, the new features in Time Series Insights will help companies to detect and diagnose anomalies and drive operational efficiency with IoT data.
August 2019
New Relic now provides integration with Azure Open Source Databases
New Relic now provides an integration for three more Azure services – Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. If you’re using New Relic as a monitoring solution, you can now use it to monitor these Azure services and your applications.
December 2018
New updates to Azure IoT Remote Monitoring
A series of updates to the Azure IoT Remote Monitoring solution accelerator is now available. This includes features such as integration of Time Series Insights to allow for root cause analysis, or roles-based access control through Azure Active Directory.
New key capabilities added to Time Series Insights to meet your IoT needs
Time series-optimised long-term storage, time series model for data contextualisation and a comprehensive analytics experience are now available in preview.
July 2018
Free course on the Log Analytics query language (KQL) now available
Learn KQL (the query language used in Application Insights and Log Analytics). Go from a beginner to a pro in just a few hours through a free, exercise-driven course.
March 2018
General availability: Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor in all public regions
Use Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor to monitor and troubleshoot connectivity from an Azure virtual machine to anywhere.
October 2017
Azure IoT Remote Monitoring update
New updates to Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that's fully operational right out of the box, are now available.
July 2017
Public preview: Connectivity check in Azure Network Watcher
Use Azure Network Watcher connectivity check to test connectivity between Azure virtual machines.
May 2017
Azure Time Series Insights
Azure Time Series Insights is a managed analytics and visualisation service that democratises the Internet of Things (IoT) by making it simple to explore and analyse your IoT time series data.
November 2014
Public Preview: Azure Operational Insights
Operational Insights is an Azure-based service that is tailored for IT operations teams. It leverages the power of Azure HDInsight to glean machine data across environments, and turns the data into real-time operational intelligence to enable better-informed business decisions.
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