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March 2024

Mar 19

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

IN PREVIEW

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.

  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 13

General availability: Additional cache size for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Utilize an additional Enterprise-tier cache size to optimize the price and performance of your Redis workload.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features

February 2024

Feb 21

Sending a log search alert with cross tenant target resource will no longer be supported

NOW AVAILABLE

As of March 15, 2024, this behavior will change and sending a log search alert with a cross tenant target resource (except for the lighthouse case) will no longer be supported. Alerts will not be sent to unauthorized target resources, and log search alert rules with an unauthorized target will be ignored. This will ensure that only authorized users can receive and investigate log search alerts.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Features

January 2024

Jan 29

Preview: Selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

IN PREVIEW

The selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services allows you to tailor and enhance searches on FHIR resources. You can choose which inbuilt search parameters to enable or disable for the FHIR service according to your unique requirements. By enabling only the search parameters you need, you can store more FHIR resources and potentially improve performance of FHIR search queries.

  • Azure Health Data Services
  • Services
Jan 22

Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace

NOW AVAILABLE

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources.   We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their  Azure  resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure.  We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way. 

  • Log Analytics
  • Azure Advisor
  • Compliance
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

November 2023

Nov 15

Azure Logic Apps workflow assistant in public preview

Target availability: Q4 2023

Bringing the power of AI to Azure Logic Apps for the first time, this workflow assistant answers any questions you have about Azure Logic Apps from directly within the designer. Currently in public preview, this chat interface provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring you to navigate documentation or search online forums.  

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November

NOW AVAILABLE

Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.  

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: Azure AI Advantage for Azure Cosmos DB

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the Azure AI Advantage customer offer.

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Feature Updates

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

New preview features available including vector search, turnkey major version upgrades, turnkey replication, and write-through cache!

  • Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 30

New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up

NOW AVAILABLE

During November, we will replace log search alerts (API version 2021-08-01 and up) that uses non-common schema template with an upgraded and more informative email template.

  • Alerts
  • Action Groups
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
Oct 10

LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan

NOW AVAILABLE

On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 29

Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026

Target retirement date: September 30, 2026

Migrate your data from Azure API for FHIR to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service for richer data integration and analytics capabilities.

  • Azure API for FHIR
  • Retirements
Sep 29

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.

  • Retirements
Sep 27

Public Preview: Additional cache sizes for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Utilize additional Enterprise-tier cache sizes to optimize the price and performance of your Redis workload.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
Sep 26

Ungated Public Preview: Azure API Center

IN PREVIEW

We're thrilled to share that Azure API Center is now open for everyone to try during our ungated public preview!

  • Features
Sep 18

Authenticate Azure Monitor logs connector in Logic App with managed identity

NOW AVAILABLE

When you enable managed identity authentication in Logic App, and grant it permissions in Log Analytics workspace, or Application Insights component, you can query data without needing...

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Application Insights
  • Compliance
  • Features
  • Security

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