Management and governance

We are happy to announce Azure Government documentation! This documentation provides guidance that is tailored to our Azure Government customers.

The public preview of Azure Monitor was announced at Ignite last month. Learn more about how this new platform service builds on existing monitoring capabilities.

Recently we released several updates to Azure DocumentDB portal experience. We added a new consolidated metrics experience which includes new metrics for availability, throughput, consistency, and latency which allows you to track how DocumentDB is meeting its SLA.

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Monitor, a new platform service that provides monitoring capabilities for Azure resources.

We would like to introduce you to our next generation command-line tools for Azure: Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview.

Azure backup now supports edit and delete on existing Azure VM backup policies in Recovery Services vault.

Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.

We are excited to announce the preview release of alerting and monitoring for Azure backups, which is currently the top-voted idea on Azure backup UserVoice.

How backups are stored impacts storage and network efficiencies. Incremental backups is a technology used by Azure Backup to efficiently store the backups to save on network and storage.

This post details the release of the Azure Usage and Billing Portal, an open source application for tracking and viewing usage and billing across multiple subscriptions in Azure.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our guidance article on disaster recovery and high availability for applications built on Microsoft Azure, as well as separate guides for disaster recovery and high availability.

We’re happy to announce a number of updates to our line of Azure Search service tiers.