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May 2019
Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Monitor metric and log alerts
PowerShell cmdlets for new metric alerts and log alerts are now available. This release improves the management of alert rules by providing cmdlets to create, update, delete and list new metric alerts. Similarly, new cmdlets are available for creating, updating, deleting and listing log alerts for both Log Analytics and Application Insights.
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date extended to August 31st, 2019
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date which was originally scheduled for June 30th, 2019 is being extended to August 31st, 2019 to provide customers more time to voluntarily migrate their classic alerts. You can migrate your classic alerts today using the migration tool. After August 31st, 2019 we will perform an automatic migration on your behalf.
Azure log integration tool deprecation
Azure log integration (AzLog) tool will be deprecated on June 15, 2019.
Network Security Group service tag for Azure Backup is now available
NSG service tag for Azure Backup aims to ease the process of running backups in an environment locked down using NSGs. With this, you now have the option to simply use the ‘AzureBackup’ tag to allow outbound access to Azure Backup for your workload (SQL Server) agent running inside the VM, instead of managing whitelisting of required IPs.
Improvements to the Azure portal user experience are now available
Announcing exciting updates that improve the user experience in the Azure portal
Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview
Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management
Azure AD admin roles for B2C are in public preview
Target availability: Q2 2019
Announcing the public preview of new B2C Azure AD administrator roles for B2C tenants.
Azure Shared Image Gallery is now generally available
Azure Shared Image Gallery makes it easier to manage, share and distribute custom virtual machine (VM) images in Azure. Shared Image Gallery is now generally available in all public cloud regions.
Azure Policy for AKS is now in public preview
Azure Policy now has the capability of adding policy controls inside your AKS clusters including pods, namespaces and ingress
Group targeting for non-Azure Servers in Azure Update Management
Target availability: Q2 2019
Azure Update Management has released a new feature for public preview. Group targeting for non-Azure servers enables you to create dynamically resolved periodic update deployments for non-Azure servers.
Switch API preference for Log Alerts
Log alert for Log Analytics users can now switch to the Azure-compliant scheduledQueryRules API – without disruption to their monitoring.
April 2019
Public preview: Resource Change History API
With the last 14 days of resource changes, the public preview of the new Change History capability within the Azure Resource Graph API enables you to find when changes were detected on an Azure Resource Manager property and see what properties changed as part of that change event.
General availability: New Azure Monitor alerts experience available in Azure Government
New Azure Monitor alerts experience is now available in Azure Government.
General availability: Azure Monitor for containers is now available in Azure China
Azure Monitor for containers is now generally available in Azure China.
Azure reservations: New experience and APIs for purchasing reservations
Azure reservation updates include new purchase experience and APIs.
Announcing Azure Backup support to move Recovery Services vaults across subscriptions and resource groups
Announcing the GA support for move functionality for recovery services vaults, where you can migrate a vault between subscriptions and resource groups in just a few steps, in minimal downtime and without any data loss of old backups. You can move the RS vault and retain recovery points of protected VMs to restore to at any time.
Azure portal April 2019 update
The Azure portal has been updated in the areas of IaaS, Azure Data Explorer, Security Center, Azure Site Recovery, RBAC, support and more.
March 2019
New tool available to migrate from classic monitoring alerts
Classic alerts are scheduled to retire, and now you can automatically migrate them to the new Azure Monitor platform.
Azure Backup SQL Servers running in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available
Target availability: Q1 2019
Learn about this pay-as-you-go service that uses native SQL backup and restore APIs to provide a comprehensive solution to backup SQL servers running in Azure IaaS VMs.
Azure portal March 2019 update
Learn about updates to the Azure portal for March 2019, including Virtual Network Gateway overview page changes, new full-screen DNS Zone and Load Balancer create blades, and Azure Management Group integration with Activity Log.
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