Azure updates

Monitoring your Azure Data Explorer Clusters with Azure Monitor (Insights) - public preview

Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer (public preview) provides comprehensive monitoring of your Azure Data Explorer clusters by delivering a unified view of the performance, operations, and usage.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Services
• Features

View change data through Azure Monitor workbook integration with Application Change Analysis

Target availability: Q2 2021

Application Change Analysis integration with Azure Monitor workbook is now in public preview

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Public IP SKU upgrade generally available

Azure public IPs now support the ability to be upgraded from Basic to Standard SKU, enabling customers to retain the same IP address for services that require Standard IP frontends.

• IP Addresses
• Load Balancer
• Features

Built-in Azure Policy support for NSG Flow Logs is now available

Network security group (NSG) Flow Logs can now be deployed and managed using built-in Azure policies. You don't need to write your own policies to manage NSG Flow Log deployments.

• Network Watcher
• Azure Monitor
• Services
• Features

Activity Log Alerts - Change in "Description" property in the alert payload now in development

Target availability: Q2 2020

Starting April 1, 2021, the fired alert property "Description“ will contain the alert rule description. A new property “Activity Log Event Description“ added to the Activity Log fired Alert payload that will replace the old property "Description“.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Azure Health Bot is now generally available

Moving Microsoft Healthcare Bot to Azure and empowering organizations to deliver even better care for patients.

• Azure Bot Services
• Microsoft Healthcare Bot
• Services

Cross resource query between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer in public preview

Azure Monitor cross resource query enables you to run cross-resource queries by using client tools that support Kusto queries.

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Data Explorer
• Features

Microsoft to establish new datacenter region in Chile

The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.

• Regions & Datacenters

Azure Automation is now available in UAE North

Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.

• Automation
• Regions & Datacenters

View changes at-scale with Application Change Analysis now in public preview

Application Change Analysis now has a new UI to view changes in all resources under selected subscriptions, without 10 rows per page limitation. Check it out and monitor your Azure resources at-scale.

• Azure Monitor
• Activity Log
• Azure Resource Graph
• Azure Resource Manager
• Compliance
• Management
• Services
• Features

Azure Defender for SQL (in Azure Security Center)—News and updates for December 2020

December 2020's enhancements and updates to Azure Defender for SQL in Azure Security Center.

• Security Center
• Security

Azure Security Center—News and updates for December 2020

New enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in December 2020.

• Security Center
• Security

NCas_T4_v3-Series VMs are now generally available

These virtual machines are ideal to run ML and AI workloads utilizing Cuda, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Caffe, and other Frameworks or the graphics workloads using NVIDIA GRID technology.

• Virtual Machines
• Services
• Features

Public preview | Azure NetApp Files : Application Consistent Snapshot tool (AzAcSnap)

AzAcSnap leverages the volume snapshot and replication functionalities in Azure NetApp Files and Azure Large Instance.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Open Source

Public preview: Support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones

Announcing the public preview support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones

• Container Registry
• Services

Ingress logs are now available for Azure Time Series Insights environments

Target availability: Q4 2020

Azure Time Series Insights has released Azure Monitor Logs for errors that occur in the ingress pipeline. This category includes errors that occur when receiving events (such as failures to connect to an Event Source) and processing events (such as errors when parsing an event payload). 

• Features

Azure Automation Python 3 runbook support is now available in public preview

Execute Python 3 runbooks in Cloud Sandbox and Hybrid Worker.

• Automation
• Management
• Services
• Features

Azure Monitor for Containers support for Private Clusters now in public preview

You can now view live monitoring data for private clusters.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Monitor
• Features