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General availability: Azure Monitor Logs, custom log API and ingestion-time transformations
New Custom Log API and Ingestion-time Transformations announced in Azure Monitor Logs.
General availability: Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs
Azure Monitor agent team has shipped custom log collection and IIS log collection.
General availability: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in Azure Portal
Log Analytics Tables can now be managed from the tables entry of Azure Portal in Log Analytics workspaces.
October 2022
Public preview: New metrics capabilities in OpenTelemetry-based Application Insights
Use OpenTelemetry vender-neutral APIs to power distributed tracing and metrics experiences in Azure Monitor Application Insights.
Public preview: Azure Resource Topology
Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups.
Public preview: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity to ARC enabled endpoints.
Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights Java profiling, using Java Flight Recorder
Java application profiling using Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is now in preview in Azure Monitor application insights.
General availability: Azure Monitor Logs - capabilities to add value and lower costs
Azure Monitor Logs announce the general availability of capabilities that help you increase cost effectiveness.
Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor's new fully managed Prometheus compatible service delivers the best of what you like about open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
Public preview: Azure Monitor Logs - create granular level RBAC for custom tables
Setting RBAC query read action on Azure Monitor Logs table is now publicly available.
Generally available: Azure Monitor agent migration tools
Migration to the cost-effective, secure, performant, and manageable new Azure Monitor agent is now made easy using migration tools and helpers.
Generally available: Azure Monitor agent support for Windows clients
Using the new Windows client installer you can now get the benefits of the new agent and data collection rules on your Windows 10 and 11 client devices.
September 2022
Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow events will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
We are retiring the Azure Monitor ITSM connector feature for creating ServiceNow alerts on 30 September 2025.
Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow alerts will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
We are retiring the Azure Monitor ITSM connector feature for creating ServiceNow alerts on 30 September 2025.
Public preview: Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive
Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive on September 1, 2022.
Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters
Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes.
General availability: Update on metric alert rules on custom metrics
Metric alert rules that monitor custom metrics can now be saved in four European regions: North Europe, West Europe, Sweden Central, and Germany West Central
Generally available: Action groups can now be saved and processed within Europe
Action groups can now be saved in European regions Sweden Central and Germany West Central (in addition to the default “global” region).
Generally available: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Backup, via Azure Monitor.
August 2022
Generally available: Enterprise-ready Azure Monitor change analysis capability released
Azure Monitor change analysis, which extends observability into Azure, is announcing general availability with enhanced performance and security, improved change data quality, and easy navigation from the Azure Monitor portal.
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