Azure updates

Dedicated clusters in Azure Monitor logs now support any commitment tier

We are pleased to announce that it is now possible to create dedicated clusters in public and sovereign clouds at any commitment tiers, starting at a minimum of 100GB per day. This capability is…

• Services
• Pricing & Offerings

New Features for graph-match KQL Operator: Enhanced Pattern Matching and Cycle Control

Target availability: Q1 2024

The graph-match operator in Kusto Query Language (KQL) allows you to query your data as a graph and find matches for a specified pattern. The latest update introduces two new features: the cycles parameter and the nonlinear patterns. These features enable you to control how cycles are matched and express more complex and flexible patterns in your graph queries.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Monitor
• Features

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

Kusto now has three new geospatial functions: geo_polygon_to_h3cells(), geo_angle() and geo_azimuth(). These functions are designed to help you better understand and analyze your geospatial data.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Monitor
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights Dependency Agent support for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs

Azure Monitor VM Insights now supports Dependency Agent for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs, enabling you to monitor their network connections and processes in the Azure portal.

• Azure Monitor
• Services
• Features

Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources.   We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their  Azure  resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure.  We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way. 

• Log Analytics
• Azure Advisor
• Compliance
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.13 at install time

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.13 is now available at install time.

• Services
• Features

Generally Available: Multi-line Logging Feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

Target availability: Q4 2023

Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is designed to simplify and streamline your Log Analysis. This feature allows you to seamlessly collect and store multiple lines of log data within a single log entry, enhancing the ease with which you can view and analyze logs from your containerized applications.

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.9 is the latest minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which provides stability and security for production environments along with bug fixes and enhancements for improved performance and reliability. It also includes more features and capabilities to help customers customize their operating environment while maintaining the consistency needed for more efficient management and deployment across varied infrastructures.

• Linux Virtual Machines
• Red Hat Linux
• Open Source
• Operating System

Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) retirement moving up to 31 May 2024

Target retirement date: June 01, 2024

Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 31 May 2024.

• Retirements

Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Vancouver version

The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.

• Alerts
• Compliance
• Services

General Availability: Connection audit logs for Enterprise tier caches for Azure Cache for Redis

Target availability: Q4 2023

Log all connections to your cache.

• Azure Cache for Redis
• Features

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement

TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023

• Application Insights
• Azure Monitor
• Compliance

Public Preview: Create and manage Azure Monitor managed Prometheus rules in Azure portal

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can now create and manage Azure Managed Prometheus rule groups, alert rules and recording rules in the Azure Portal

• Azure Monitor
• Managed Prometheus
• Alerts
• Features

General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS

Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

• Azure Backup
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public Preview: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

Target availability: Q4 2023

Enhance your database monitoring with the new server log feature for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, offering customizable retention and straightforward downloading for operational excellence.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Italy North

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Italy North region.

• Open Source
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

General availability: Azure Monitor Application Insights Browser SDK Loader for Node.js

Target availability: Q3 2023

Azure Monitor Application Insights Node.js customers can enable real user monitoring (RUM) with a simple configuration.

• Application Insights
• Management
• SDK and Tools