Azure Monitor

Getting ahead of issues before they impact end users is a key goal of any IT organization.

The Azure Log Analytics service is rolling out an upgrade to existing customers today – offering powerful search, smart analytics, and even deeper insights.

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s built-in platform monitoring service for Azure.

We are excited to announce that Azure Advisor, Monitor, and resource health are generally available to you today, providing you with robust monitoring & alerting capabilities, and customized recommendations based on best practices.

Recently, we have improved the robustness of web page monitoring in Application Insights, and introduced the ability not to use cookies. Transmission is now more reliable in the face of throttling and network issues, and when a page is about to unload.

We announced the general availability of Azure Application Insights (previously Visual Studio Application Insights) and launched our new pricing structure.

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.

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

Application Insights web tests will ping your application from multiple locations to check availability and then alert you when it is down. In this post I will explain how to automatically deploy a web test.

I’m happy to announce that the Application Insights Windows SDKs have reached the 1.0.0 milestone. By reaching the 1.0.0 milestone we will take on greater stability around SDK changes and a longer support lifetime.