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Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired.
Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)
We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Resource Graph (ARG) tables, and even joining data between Azure Resource Graph (ARG) data sources from your Log Analytics workspace and Application Insights resources in a single query.
September 2023
Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
With the upgraded offering of ContainerLogV2 becoming generally available, on 30th September 2026, the ContainerLog table will be retired. If you currently ingest container insights data to the ContainerLog table, please make sure to transition to using ContainerLogV2 prior to that date.
Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024 - transition to using Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Python Distro
Target retirement date: September 29, 2023
Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024
Azure Monitor Data Collection API Retirement
Target retirement date: September 18, 2026
Support for Data Collector API feature is being discontinued. This feature allowed users to ingest custom logs into Log Analytics workspaces. DCR-based Log Ingestion API now provides similar capabilities with added flexibility of data transformation and support of secure authentication methods.
Transition to using standard tests for single-step availability testing in Azure Monitor application insights by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
URL ping tests in the application insights feature will be retired on 30 September 2026.
Generally available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for Node.js and Python
Target availability: Q3 2023
Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights.
Authenticate Azure Monitor logs connector in Logic App with managed identity
When you enable managed identity authentication in Logic App, and grant it permissions in Log Analytics workspace, or Application Insights component, you can query data without needing...
Public preview: Alerts timeline view
A new timeline view simplifies the consumption experience of fired alerts.
August 2023
Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent
VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.
July 2023
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Pod Sandboxing support in Container insights
Container Insights supports monitoring pod sandboxed containers. Pod Sandboxing safeguards against “Container Breakout” scenarios such as a malicious or legitimate user escaping container isolation to access host machine resources.
Public Preview: Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Monitor Logs
You can now ingest data directly from an event hub into a Log Analytics workspace
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs improved table-level RBAC
Today we announce an improvement to the table-level RBAC used to assign permissions to specific tables
Public preview: Azure Monitor Agent Health experience
The Azure Monitor Agent Health experience is now available in preview. Identify data collection problems across your organization before they start impacting your business.
Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights configurable Real User Monitoring for Java
The new “browserSdkLoader” configuration in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Java Distro makes it easier than ever to enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Application Insights.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Government Cloud customers can now enable VM Insights via the new Azure Monitor Agent, to monitor the client workload on the VMs or VMSS.
June 2023
Generally available: Azure Monitor container insights for AKS cluster with ARM64 nodes
Azure Monitor container insights is now generally available for AKS clusters with ARM64 nodes.
Generally Available: Managed identity authentication in Azure Monitor container insights
Managed Identity is a secure & simplified authentication model where our agent uses the cluster’s managed identity to send data to Azure Monitor.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor Alert resources now visible in the Azure portal
Alert rules, alert processing rules and action groups can now be viewed in the portal alongside all Azure resources.
May 2023
Now Available: Resource-centric log queries in the Azure Monitor Query libraries
Resource-centric log query support is available in the latest stable release of the Azure Monitor Query client libraries. Query logs by Azure resource ID using .NET, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
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