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September 2022

30 Sep

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Retirements

December 2021

2 Dec

Public preview: Measure product effectiveness with new user analytics experience in Application Insights

IN PREVIEW

A new experience based on Google’s “HEART framework” helps you measure product effectiveness.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

November 2021

2 Nov

Public preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters provide a vendor-neutral way to instrument your application and send telemetry to Application Insights.

  • Azure Monitor
  • SDK and Tools
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Open Source

October 2021

13 Oct

General availability: Azure Monitor application insights in Azure Spring Cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure is making it easier to observe Java Spring Boot workloads running on Azure Spring Cloud with application insights.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

July 2021

14 Jul

General availability: Application Insights integration with App Services for Java & Node.js apps

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • App Service
  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

June 2021

16 Jun

Public preview: Alerts based smart detection for Application Insights

IN PREVIEW

Get your anomaly detections as alerts, manage smart detection using alert rules and configure notifications for smart detection alerts using action groups.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
9 Jun

General availability: Application Insights Node.js pre-aggregated standard metrics

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor Application Insights Node.js SDK adds pre-aggregated standard metrics to enhance accuracy of alerts when telemetry sampling is enabled.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

March 2021

2 Mar

General availability: Application insights no-code enablement on Node.js Linux App Service Environments

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • App Service
  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

January 2021

21 Jan

Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor Application Insights JavaScript SDK Click Analytics Plugin provides automatic tracking of click events on web pages.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

November 2020

5 Nov

Azure Monitor Application Insights Java 3.0 is now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

April 2020

10 Apr

Java - Codeless application monitoring with Azure Monitor Application Insights in public preview

IN 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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

March 2020

12 Mar

Azure Monitor Application Insights now supports Python

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor now supports distributed tracing, metric collection and logging of Python applications through integration with OpenCensus.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
  • Open Source

February 2019

25 Feb

Remove Application Insights connections via PowerShell

NOW AVAILABLE

To stop application data from reaching your workspace after OMS portal deprecation, remove existing connections by using a PowerShell script.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Application Insights
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
21 Feb

Azure Monitor status blog is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor Status blog provides timely updates on the health of Azure Monitor products (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Service Map, Azure Alerts).

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Application Insights
  • Alerts
  • Services

October 2018

23 Oct

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Alerts (Classic)
  • Alerts
  • Metrics
  • Application Insights
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Retirements

July 2018

24 Jul

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.

  • Application Insights
  • Log Analytics
  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

June 2018

11 Jun

Tags to group, filter, and search APIs, operations, and products

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • API Management
  • Application Insights
  • Features
11 Jun

Azure API Management integration with Azure Application Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

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,

  • API Management
  • Application Insights
  • Features

May 2018

22 May

General availability: Log alerts for Application Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Log alerts for Application Insights are generally available as part of Azure Monitor.

  • Alerts
  • Application Insights
  • Management
  • Features
18 May

Public preview: Query across applications in log alerts

IN PREVIEW

Cross-app query support is in preview, as part of log alerts for Application Insights.

  • Alerts
  • Application Insights
  • Management
  • Features

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