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May 2023

17 May

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer now supports geospatial analysis with three new functions: geo_point_buffer, geo_line_buffer, and geo_polygon_buffer. These functions let you create polygonal buffers around points, lines, or polygons.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features

March 2023

20 Mar

General availability: Serilog Sink for Azure Data Explorer

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from .NET Applications via the Serilog Sink.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source
  • Features

February 2023

21 Feb

General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards

NOW AVAILABLE

We are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated General Availability of ADX Dashboards!

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
7 Feb

Now available: "Find my partner" for Azure Data Explorer

NOW AVAILABLE

Find partners for Azure Data Explorer. Our new partner program aims to connect customers and partners with ease.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features

January 2023

5 Jan

General availability: Apache log4J2 sink to Azure Data Explorer

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from Apache Log4j 2.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source
  • Features

October 2022

19 Oct

General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from many receivers via the OpenTelemetry exporter.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • SDK and Tools
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Open Source
  • Features

September 2022

6 Sep

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator

NOW AVAILABLE

New Azure Data Explorer offering: the Kusto Emulator is a Docker Container encapsulating the Kusto Query Engine.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

August 2022

24 Aug

General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer (ADX) now supports bringing data from S3 natively without complex ETL pipelines.  

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

April 2022

7 Apr

General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2022

Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect to your Azure Data Explorer cluster privately

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Security
  • Features
5 Apr

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template

NOW AVAILABLE

We can now build an entire Azure Data Explorer environment with ARM template. Schema entities (e.g. tables, functions, policies) can be deployed without an external storage account.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Resource Manager templates
  • Features

March 2022

30 Mar

General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Conditional Access

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer launches support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
24 Mar

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2022

Dynamically route Azure Data Explorer data to an alternate database

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Event Grid
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service
  • SDK and Tools
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

January 2022

24 Jan

Generally available: Kibana dashboards and visualizations on top of Azure Data Explorer

NOW AVAILABLE

Elasticsearch and Kibana users can now easily migrate to Azure Data Explorer (ADX) while keeping Kibana as their visualization tool, alongside the other Azure Data Explorer experiences.A new version…

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source
  • Services
  • Features

November 2021

17 Nov

General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale in a code-free design environment without ever touching the Spark compute. Azure Integration Runtimes allow you to define the Spark environment and provide a serverless Spark compute for your data transformation pipelines.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Data Factory
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Integration Runtime
  • Features
9 Nov

General availability: Azure Data Explorer cache policy hot windows

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer always supported to cache the latest ingested data for best performance. It now supports selectively caching older data which is ideal when auditing a given time period.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
5 Nov

Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job

IN PREVIEW

We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
3 Nov

General availability: New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf

NOW AVAILABLE

This new output plugin allows you to write telemetry collected by any of the input plugins of Telegraf directly into Azure Data Explorer e.g. it makes SQL monitoring at scale better and affordable.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Open Source
  • Features
2 Nov

Public preview: Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse

IN PREVIEW

Azure Synapse data explorer is optimized for efficient log analytics, using powerful indexing technology to automatically index structured, semi-structured, and free-text data commonly found in telemetry data.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

27 Oct

General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • Management
25 Oct

General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Management
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

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