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Generally Available: AKS support for API breaking change detection
AKS now alerts you on API breaking changes on minor version change cluster upgrades.
Pod Security Policy is being deprecated with AKS 1.25 and 2023-06-01 API version
Target retirement date: October 14, 2025
Migrate your AKS cluster from Pod Security Policy to Pod Security Admission
November 2023
General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity across ARC enabled endpoints as sources and destinations
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Monitoring Agent team has released for public preview JSON log collection. New collection types enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor.
October 2023
The availability of Azure compute reservations exchanges extended until at least July 1st, 2024
The availability of Azure compute reservations exchanges extended until at least July 1st, 2024
Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Target retirement date: September 15, 2026
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration
September 2023
We’re ending support for the 2017-03-01-GA API.
Target retirement date: September 16, 2026
You’re receiving this email because you currently use the 2017-03-01-GA API of Azure Container Registry.
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.
Retirement: Kubernetes 1.24 support in AKS
Target retirement date: August 16, 2023
Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS.
July 2023
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.
May 2023
Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026
April 2023
Public preview: Fail Fast Upgrade on API Breaking change detection
Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting
March 2023
SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024 – transition to SQL Server connector’s V2 actions and triggers
Target retirement date: March 31, 2024
SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024
Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 30, 2026
Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026
Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker (Windows & Linux) on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: September 01, 2024
Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker on 31 August 2024
Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules
Target retirement date: March 15, 2026
Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated.
November 2022
Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols
Target retirement date: September 01, 2023
Azure Resource Manager will be deprecating support for TLS 1.1 and older in Autumn 2023. To maintain an uninterrupted connection with Azure Resource Manager, update your operating systems and work environments to support TLS 1.2.
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 30, 2024
Deprecation notice: transition from Azure MFA Server to Azure MFA by 30 September 2024.
September 2022
Azure Batch Low Priority VMs will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: October 01, 2025
Retirement Notice: Transition to Azure Batch Spot VMs before 30 September 2025.
Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on September 30, 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Migrate your data from Azure unmanaged disk storage to managed disks before September 30, 2025.
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