{"id":1703,"date":"2019-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-monitor-january-2019-updates"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:26:05","slug":"azure-monitor-january-2019-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-monitor-january-2019-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Monitor January 2019 updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure Monitor, which now includes Log Analytics and Application Insights, provides sophisticated tools for collecting and analyzing telemetry. It allows you to maximize the performance and availability of your cloud, on-premises resources, and applications. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources on which they depend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/azure-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get started with Azure Monitor<\/a>. Now let\u2019s check out what\u2019s new from the past month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"acknowledgements\">Acknowledgements<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gartner peer insights customers' choice 2019 seal\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4a996129-ca32-407f-a1a0-656ea0cf5efe.webp\" alt=\"Gartner peer insights customers' choice 2019 seal\" width=\"174\" height=\"140\" align=\"right\"><\/figure><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, a huge thank you to our customers for once again naming Microsoft a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/reviews\/customers-choice\/apm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gartner Peer Insights Customers\u2019 Choice for Application Performance Monitoring Suites<\/a> for its System Center Operations Manager, Microsoft Azure Application Insights, and System Center Global Service Monitor applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"application-insights\">Application Insights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Application Insights is the application performance monitoring (APM) service of Azure Monitor, providing observability for Java, .NET, and Node.js web services, plus client-side JavaScript apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"end-to-end-transactions\">End-to-end transactions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The end-to-end transactions view now supports time scrubbing. Click and drag over a period of time to filter the view to that time range and analyze it in more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ed095df1-9efb-4fdb-bbc3-5582bef445e0.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of end-to-end transaction details \" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of end-to-end transaction details \" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"performance-and-failures\">Performance and failures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve squashed a handful of bugs in the performance and failures tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The Roles tab now preserves role selection while navigating from the application map<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The Roles tab no longer shows duplicated role instances with empty role names<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The details pane no longer shows &#8220;\u2026&#8221; beside items like event times that shouldn&#8217;t have had this button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"availability\">Availability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the availability tool, we fixed a bug where navigating from the availability scatter plot wouldn\u2019t show the closest result with a web test available in the end-to-end transactions view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"application-map\">Application map<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve made the application map even easier to read and navigate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Added a \u201cZoom to fit\u201d button<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Grouped nodes are now shown as a stack to make them easier to distinguish<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Added \u201cexpand\u201d and \u201ccollapse\u201d buttons for the insights cards in the flyout menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Nodes without incoming connections are now shown closer to their first outbound connection on the map, which should make many maps easier to read<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Better support for proxies (multiple services called through the same host name) by removing the proxy dependency node and directly linking the services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Maps with many complex grouped edges will now show statistics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/35952e89-3677-45f1-838e-5779489f5da1.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of application map\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of application map\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pricing-calculator\">Pricing calculator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We updated the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/calculator\/?service=monitor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure pricing calculator<\/a> to make it easier to estimate your Application Insights bills. Now, you can enter an estimate of traffic to your app and we\u2019ll show prices for apps that have received similar levels of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"application-insights-sdk\">Application Insights SDK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuget.org\/packages\/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web\/2.9.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">v2.9.0<\/a> of the .NET SDK and v2.6.0 of the ASP.NET Core SDK, each with several performance improvements and bug fixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also shipped a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuget.org\/packages\/Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.ApplicationInsights\/2.9.0-beta3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standalone version of the Application Insights Provider for ILogger<\/a>, which adds scopes support, the most requested feature from our GitHub community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opencensus-sdk\">OpenCensus SDK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We released an <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/census-instrumentation\/opencensus-csharp\/releases\/tag\/0.1.0-alpha-42253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alpha version of our C# OpenCensus SDK<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/opencensus.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenCensus<\/a> is a cross-industry open source project, working towards a single distribution of libraries for metrics and distributed tracing with minimal overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"log-analytics\">Log Analytics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"log-analytics-blade-renamed\">Log Analytics blade renamed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Log Analytics blade in the Azure portal has been renamed Log Analytics workspaces. This change clarifies that this blade is intended to manage your workspaces by connecting data sources, installing solutions, measuring cost, and more. You can also use the logs tool to query logs of a selected workspace, but remember logs is also available through other paths such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, virtual machines, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"log-analytics-data-encryption\">Log Analytics data encryption<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Log Analytics uses Azure Data Explorer to manage its data. The data is stored in Azure Storage, and it is encrypted using a Microsoft managed encryption key. Azure Data Explorer also uses an SSD-backed hot cache that typically stores the last two weeks of data. Starting in January, the data in the SSD caches have also been encrypted in all regions, except for West Central US which will be completed in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"protection-from-losing-queries-on-page-refresh\">Protection from losing queries on page refresh<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever worked for a long time on a query and just when you got it right you accidently selected refresh page and lost all your work? Don\u2019t worry, we got you covered. Log Analytics now automatically saves your queries, so they don\u2019t get lost. This feature requires third-party cookies to be enabled in your browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"schema-updates-table-preview-a-new-table-icon-and-featured-tables\">Schema updates &#8211; Table preview, a new table icon, and featured tables<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Log Analytics users love our schema display, so we made it even better. New icons indicate table items in the schema view, making it easier to read. When hovering a table, a new preview item enables a quick execution of a query to view a table\u2019s contents. When you\u2019re in a virtual machine context, the new featured view allows you to see commonly queried tables to allow quicker insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dfeb409b-15d5-4eef-92aa-404335a215c2.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of filter preview capability\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of filter preview capability\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"select-filters\">Select filters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Log Analytics filter pane (preview) is a great way to refine query results without in-depth KQL knowledge. The filter pane suggests fields to query based on our algorithms. However, in some cases the field you need to filter on is not included in the initial list of filter fields. To address this, we allow the customization of filter fields right from the filter pane. Simple select the new <strong>Select filter<\/strong> icon and add the field you need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26b66d0f-f792-494c-abd5-9dfdaa7db0ba.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of Select filter button adding desired fields\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of Select filter button adding desired fields\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then select the field you\u2019d like to see filters for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/87cc710e-8706-45e8-ac46-6d355bc73218.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of select filter fields being updated\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of select filter fields being updated\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"set-a-title-for-your-charts\">Set a title for your charts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add more context to your charts by using the title keyword to add a title. This is especially useful when pining a chart to dashboards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5e6d25ba-2e19-4cc4-b403-1d2a4784bca7.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of title keyword in use to add chart title\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of title keyword in use to add chart title\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/96f7b6dd-566c-4727-9b4a-462289c4ecf1.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of Noa dashboard display\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of Noa dashboard display\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"support-made-easier-with-your-request-id\">Support made easier with your request ID<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a query fails and you\u2019d like to contact support, you can now provide the request ID of the failed query and we\u2019ll be able to investigate what failed this specific run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get the request ID select the <strong>right-most button<\/strong> on the results status bar and it will be copied to your clipboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/a1d91362-719d-4f75-9871-6a67c8b587ac.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of button copying request ID results to clipboard\" style=\"border-radius:0px;width:307px;height:auto\" title=\"Screenshot of button copying request ID results to clipboard\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"workbooks\">Workbooks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/azure-monitor\/app\/usage-workbooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Monitor Workbooks<\/a> are rich, interactive reports that combine text, analytics queries, Azure metrics, and parameters. We\u2019ve made two additions this month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">You can now take a workbook and pin all its sections as tiles to an Azure dashboard. To give this a try, select the <strong>Pin button<\/strong> in the toolbar of a workbook.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Workbooks created from the Troubleshooting Guides tab or from Azure Monitor for Resource Groups now allow you choose in which subscription, resource group, and location to save them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/69478880-613e-4b55-ae97-9ae96168b11c.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of workbooks application performance insights \" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of workbooks application performance insights\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"azure-metrics\">Azure Metrics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the metrics page, you can now pick to which Azure dashboard you pin your metric charts. You can even create a new dashboard right from the same place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/e2330ba0-361a-4b58-b4ed-6d200869dcb2.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of monitor metrics\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of monitor metrics\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also now <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/azure-monitor\/platform\/metrics-charts#lock-boundaries-of-chart-y-axis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lock y-axis boundaries<\/a> for metrics charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/185c2844-4628-4daa-8b06-5a4d3b4b70f4.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of locking in y-axis boundaries for metrics charts\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of locking in y-axis boundaries for metrics charts\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, we\u2019ve removed the classic metric explorer tool from the Azure portal now that the transition to the new metrics tool is complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"azure-monitor-for-virtual-machines-vms\">Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines (VMs)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workbooks are now available in Azure Monitor for VMs. Select the <strong>View workbooks<\/strong> link to open the gallery and then try out one of the reports. Feel free to customize the report as needed, or duplicate it to start making a new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bfd71168-6154-4404-866f-7cfc7410b063.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of minitor virtual machines preview dashboard\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of minitor virtual machines preview dashboard\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/7d147099-1e59-4a98-a782-2954a9d3ef37.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of workbooks gallery\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Screenshot of workbooks gallery\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft was named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers\u2019 Choice for Application Performance Monitoring Suites in both June 2018 and January 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Gartner Peer Insights Customers\u2019 Choice badge is a trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc., and\/or its affiliates, and is used herein with permission. 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Gartner Peer Insights Customers\u2019 Choice constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-user reviews, ratings, and data applied against a documented methodology; they neither represent the views of, nor constitute an endorsement by, Gartner or its affiliates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Monitor provides sophisticated tools for collecting and analyzing telemetry that allow you to maximize the performance and availability of your cloud while also maximizing on-premises resources and 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