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Monthly updates for Azure Monitor: September 2020
General Availability: Application Insight in UK West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in the UK West region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
Traffic Analytics & Diagnostics capabilities in Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Monitor for Network provides the starting point for network monitoring without any user configuration and provides access to all available network monitoring capabilities.
New disk IO and Bandwidth metrics to identify bottlenecks
New disk IO utilisation metrics that help users gain insight into their disk IO and bandwidth bottlenecks have been released. These metrics simplify identifying resources that are limiting application s performance. Now with a couple of metric views, users can make informed decisions on how to upgrade their products to and see a direct impact to their performance.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI improvements September 2020
Log Analytics UI gets several improvements in September including, search in query history, search in query dialogue and time picker enhancements.
General availability of workspace-based Application Insights
Azure Monitor Application Insights now integrates deeply with Log Analytics for a unified workspace-based mode enabling you to store your app logs and your platform/infrastructure logs together in one place.
Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for BMC Helix with Secure Export
Introducing a preview of Secure Export as a new version of Azure Monitor ITSM Connector, providing integration with BMC Helix.
General availability of Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Monitor for Azure Cache for Redis provide out of the box insights for these resources using platform telemetry.
Dedicated clusters for Azure Monitor Log Analytics with data encryption at rest and Lockbox
Handle large scale deployments better by taking advantage of data encryption at rest (with Customer Managed Keys) and Lockbox and even configure cluster level capacity reservation with discounted pricing.
New disk performance metrics in Azure Monitor
New metrics in Azure Monitor help users gain insights into performance bottlenecks caused by virtual machine or disk throttling.
IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now available in Azure Government
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.
Public Preview: Application Insight in UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2
UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2 are now Public Preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health using Application Insight.
The Azure Monitor Logs page now links to the community GitHub repo
Writing queries can be challenging. The Azure Monitor Logs page now links to hundreds of community-shared examples, so you don't need to start from scratch.
Azure Monitor for containers agent (ciprod08072020) update
Azure monitor for containers new agent (ciprod08072020) will support new features & fixes such as monitoring support of deployments & Horizontal Pod Autoscaler(HPAs), displaying correct node status & health(tab) access through limited preview program.
Azure API Management will retire 5 legacy metrics in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Start using the new Requests metric in Azure Monitor.
Azure Storage classic metrics will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to using metrics in Azure Monitor
Improvements to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
Several new features and improvements in Azure metric alerts are now available.
Log Analytics Agent for Windows August 2020 release is now available
The August 2020 release contains bug fixes and improvements to stability and reliability.
Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules Public Preview
Azure Monitor is introducing a new concept for data collection configuration and a new, unified agent for Azure Monitor in Public Preview.
View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Start using Azure Monitor Workbooks for rich visual reports
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