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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.
January 2019
Final reminder: OMS portal moving to the Azure portal
Target availability: Q1 2019
The OMS portal will be retired on 15th January 2019. You can continue to use your existing services and licensing in the Azure portal.
December 2018
Log Analytics solutions and views will soon drill in to the new Logs UX
Three months ago, we announced the new Azure Monitor Logs UX. Starting in early January, solutions and views will open the new Logs UX instead, offering an improved query editor and a full schema view.
October 2018
Azure AD activity logs integration with Azure Monitor Diagnostics and Azure Log Analytics is in public preview
Gain insights from Azure AD user activity logs stored in an Azure storage account and streamed to your preferred SIEM or custom environment or integration with Azure Log Analytics tools directly in the Azure portal.
Send your Azure Active Directory data to Azure Log Analytics
The ability to forward your Azure Active Directory logs to Azure Log Analytics is now available.
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.
Log Analytics language documentation site has moved
The language documentation site of Log Analytics and Application Insights has been merged into the standard Log Analytics documentation.
August 2018
New log experience in the Azure portal
We have brought the Analytics portal in Application Insights and the Advanced Analytics portal in Log Analytics into the Azure portal.
Updates to file support and Windows services tracking in Change Tracking and Inventory
New support has been added for more powerful tracking of Windows files, file content tracking and differencing, and adjustable Windows Service collection frequency.
System Center Operations Manager Management Pack to configure Operations Management Suite
The Operations Management Suite connection onboarding wizard in System Center Operations Manager is now updated to communicate with the new APIs.
Log Analytics workspaces must be created in the Azure portal
Starting 29th July, new Log Analytics workspaces can be created only in the Azure portal.
July 2018
OMS Linux Agent July 2018 release now available
The OMS Linux Agent July 2018 release is now available. It contains many stability and installation improvements, plus introduces support for Ubuntu 18.04.
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.
All Analytics custom logs are now grouped under the schema “Custom Logs” category
Tables for custom logs now appear in the "Custom Logs" category, rather than the "Log Management" category.
Workspace selection added to Analytics, in each of your query editor tabs
In Azure Log Analytics, you quickly select a different workspace to query, without losing the context of what you were working on.
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Azure Log Analytics
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Azure Log Analytics is available in the Azure Marketplace.
New features for Azure dashboard tiles: resize and edit query
There's a new option to resize and edit the query of Log Analytics and Application Insights Analytics tiles pinned to Azure dashboards.
June 2018
A new overview page for Azure Log Analytics
A new overview page for Azure Log Analytics helps users get started and quickly find the tool or service they came for—including cost management, logs and View Designer.
Azure Web Apps Analytics and Azure Network Security Group Analytics available
Two Azure Log Analytics solutions are now open source and available in the Azure Quickstart Templates gallery: Azure Web Apps Analytics and Azure Network Security Group Analytics.
May 2018
Log Analytics query language recommendations for Summarise and Join operators
For the Summarise and Join operators, we recommend that you modify your query syntax where applicable in saved searches and alerts, to avoid result ambiguity.
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