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The application insights Java 2.X SDK will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Upgrade to application insights Java 3.X auto-instrumentation by 30 September 2025.
December 2021
Public preview: Measure product effectiveness with new user analytics experience in Application Insights
A new experience based on Google’s “HEART framework” helps you measure product effectiveness.
November 2021
Public preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters provide a vendor-neutral way to instrument your application and send telemetry to Application Insights.
October 2021
General availability: Azure Monitor application insights in Azure Spring Cloud
Azure is making it easier to observe Java Spring Boot workloads running on Azure Spring Cloud with application insights.
July 2021
General availability: Application Insights integration with App Services for Java & Node.js apps
Integration of Azure Monitor application insights with App Services now enables you to monitor your Java & Node.js apps directly from Azure portal, without making any changes to your code, with just a click of a button.
June 2021
Public preview: Alerts based smart detection for Application Insights
Get your anomaly detections as alerts, manage smart detection using alert rules and configure notifications for smart detection alerts using action groups.
General availability: Application Insights Node.js pre-aggregated standard metrics
Azure Monitor Application Insights Node.js SDK adds pre-aggregated standard metrics to enhance accuracy of alerts when telemetry sampling is enabled.
March 2021
General availability: Application insights no-code enablement on Node.js Linux App Service Environments
Azure Monitor application insights App Service integration on Node.js Linux environments provides no-code enablement of application insights via Azure portal, PowerShell, or ARM Templates.
January 2021
Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available
Azure Monitor Application Insights JavaScript SDK Click Analytics Plugin provides automatic tracking of click events on web pages.
November 2020
Azure Monitor Application Insights Java 3.0 is now generally available
Now you can monitor your Java apps without a single change of code - the Application Java agent can be enabled through just a couple of configuration changes, and will monitor Java applications in any environment.
April 2020
Java - Codeless application monitoring with Azure Monitor Application Insights in public preview
Monitor Java applications in any environment without changing the code with Azure Monitor Application Insights. A preview of the new codeless Java agent is now available.
March 2020
Azure Monitor Application Insights now supports Python
Azure Monitor now supports distributed tracing, metric collection and logging of Python applications through integration with OpenCensus.
February 2019
Remove Application Insights connections via PowerShell
To stop application data from reaching your workspace after OMS portal deprecation, remove existing connections by using a PowerShell script.
Azure Monitor status blog is now available
Azure Monitor Status blog provides timely updates on the health of Azure Monitor products (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Service Map, Azure Alerts).
October 2018
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor to retire in June 2019
Target retirement date: August 31, 2019
The classic alerting and monitoring functionality in Azure Monitor is scheduled for retirement.
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.
June 2018
Tags to group, filter, and search APIs, operations, and products
Users can add and manage tags—text labels—to APIs, operations, and products. Tags allow better group, filter, and search in deployments with a large number of entities.
Azure API Management integration with Azure Application Insights
The Azure API Management integration with Azure Application Insights is now available. With this integration, you now have the ability to troubleshoot and debug APIs more effectively by adding API Management telemetry into Application Insights,
May 2018
General availability: Log alerts for Application Insights
Log alerts for Application Insights are generally available as part of Azure Monitor.
Public preview: Query across applications in log alerts
Cross-app query support is in preview, as part of log alerts for Application Insights.
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