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Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.
Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Classic Networking Services retiring in August 2024.
Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q2 2024
Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.
Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models.
GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities
A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024
Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival.
Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics
Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 2024
Target availability: Q2 2024
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2024.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates
New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more!
Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q2 2024
You can now protect Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps
Target availability: Q2 2024
Load test your web apps directly from Azure App Service in Azure portal.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts
Target availability: Q1 2024
Enable Prometheus community recommended alerts to monitor key signals to be promptly notified on potential critical issues within your clusters.
Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for MySQL– Flexible Server
Target availability: Q1 2024
Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for MySQL- Flexible server.
March 2024
Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
The classic built-in analytics dashboards will be retired on 15 March 2027.
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support
You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.
Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: April 01, 2025
The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider alternative cost management reporting for AWS available in the market.
Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.
Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.
Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.
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