Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2020
General Availability: Application Insight in UK West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in the UK West region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
Visual Studio Code extension diagnostics + periscope
This Visual Studio Code extension enables developers to use AKS periscope and AKS diagnostics in their development workflow to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot their clusters.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will be generally available on October 30, 2020
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will help organizations adapt and build scalable modalities of care while safeguarding patients, care teams, and assets.
New Azure Cognitive Services and capabilities in preview
Preview capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services Decision, Vision, and containers categories.
Network Virtual Appliances from Cisco can be installed directly into the Virtual WAN hub
Azure is partnering with third-party Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) partners to allow customers to choose to deploy an NVA directly into the Virtual WAN hub as an option for SD-WAN connectivity.
New Azure Orbital, ground station as a service, now in preview
Azure Orbital is a fully managed cloud-based ground station as a service that enables you to schedule contacts with your spacecrafts or satellites and directly ingest data in Azure using Orbital ground stations.
Public preview: Azure Arc enabled SQL Server
Public preview of Azure Arc enabled SQL Server extends power of Azure to SQL servers hosted on-premises or in other public clouds.
Traffic Analytics & Diagnostics capabilities in Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Monitor for Network provides the starting point for network monitoring without any user configuration and provides access to all available network monitoring capabilities.
Change data integration in Azure Monitor for VMs is now in public preview
You can now observe degradation of performance or health in a VM with the new change data integration in Azure Monitor for VMs.
General availability of Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Monitor for Azure Cache for Redis provide out of the box insights for these resources using platform telemetry.
Preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports cross-region load balancing
Azure Load Balancer now supports load balancing across regions based on health and latency.
Public Preview: Application Insight in UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2
UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2 are now Public Preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health using Application Insight.
IoT Hub TLS certificate update
Microsoft is updating Azure services in a phased manner to use TLS certificates from a different set of Certificate Authorities.
Azure Cloud Services – Introducing support for Resource Health
Azure Resource Health now provides live health status and status history for Azure Cloud Services deployments and roles.
Azure Monitor for containers agent (ciprod08072020) update
Azure monitor for containers new agent (ciprod08072020) will support new features & fixes such as monitoring support of deployments & Horizontal Pod Autoscaler(HPAs), displaying correct node status & health(tab) access through limited preview program.
Azure API Management will retire 5 legacy metrics in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Start using the new Requests metric in Azure Monitor.
View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Start using Azure Monitor Workbooks for rich visual reports
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