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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 31st August 2019
Azure Monitor classic alerts retirement date which was originally scheduled for 30th June 2019 is being extended to 31st August 2019 to provide customers more time to voluntarily migrate their classic alerts. You can migrate your classic alerts today using the migration tool. After 31st August 2019 we will perform an automatic migration on your behalf.
April 2019
General Availability: New Azure Monitor alerts experience available in Azure Government
New Azure Monitor alerts experience is now available in Azure Government.
February 2019
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).
Extend alerts created in the Azure Government cloud's OMS portal to Azure
Azure Government customers who use the OMS portal can now extend their log query–based alerts to the Azure portal.
October 2018
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor to retire in June 2019
The classic alerting and monitoring functionality in Azure Monitor is scheduled for retirement.
General availability: Metric alerts for logs
Metric alerts for logs are generally available, enabling use of metric alerts for popular logs ingested by Log Analytics workspaces.
July 2018
Public preview: Metric alerts for logs
Metric alerts for logs are now in public preview, with no signup or enablement process.
June 2018
Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated
Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated in the areas of email functionality, dependent modules, and runbooks.
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.
April 2018
Alerts created in the Operations Management Suite portal can extend into Azure
Alert rules created in the OMS portal can now extend into Azure to take advantage of the new Azure alerts experience. Monitoring is not affected and there is no downtime.
May 2017
Introducing the Azure app (preview)
With the Azure mobile app, you can check status and critical metrics of your Azure resources, get notifications and alerts, and perform simple operations to resolve common issues.
May 2016
Run your own custom Automation tasks in response to VM alerts
When you create an alert rule on an Azure virtual machine, you can run your own custom task when the alert is triggered. New alert remediation tasks are also available.
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