Updates Archives
Monthly updates for Azure Monitor: January 2021
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in UAE Central & Japan West.
Public preview: Application Insight in Japan West
Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in Japan West.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West .
General availability: Application Insight in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
Azure Monitor Network Insights is now generally available
Customers now have a single console for all their network monitoring requirements with Azure Monitor Network Insights
Changes in Azure Monitor Logs for the AzureDiagnostics table is now available
Azure Monitor Logs will now allow more than 500 dimensions to be collected to the AzureDiagnostics table by introducing an "overflow" column.
Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available
Azure Monitor Application Insights JavaScript SDK Click Analytics Plugin provides automatic tracking of click events on web pages.
Public preview of Linux Diagnostics Agent 4.0
A new major version release of the Linux Diagnostic Extension is now available in public preview.
Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for ServiceNow ITOM with Secure Export
Introducing a public preview of Secure Export as a new version of Azure Monitor ITSM Connector, providing integration with ServiceNow ITOM.
Monitoring your Azure Data Explorer Clusters with Azure Monitor (Insights) - public preview
Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer (public preview) provides comprehensive monitoring of your Azure Data Explorer clusters by delivering a unified view of the performance, operations, and usage.
View change data through Azure Monitor workbook integration with Application Change Analysis
Target availability: Q2 2021
Application Change Analysis integration with Azure Monitor workbook is now in public preview
Built-in Azure Policy support for NSG Flow Logs is now available
Network security group (NSG) Flow Logs can now be deployed and managed using built-in Azure policies. You don't need to write your own policies to manage NSG Flow Log deployments.
Activity Log Alerts - Change in "Description" property in the alert payload now in development
Target availability: Q2 2020
Starting April 1, 2021, the fired alert property "Description“ will contain the alert rule description. A new property “Activity Log Event Description“ added to the Activity Log fired Alert payload that will replace the old property "Description“.
Cross resource query between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer in public preview
Azure Monitor cross resource query enables you to run cross-resource queries by using client tools that support Kusto queries.
View changes at-scale with Application Change Analysis now in public preview
Application Change Analysis now has a new UI to view changes in all resources under selected subscriptions, without 10 rows per page limitation. Check it out and monitor your Azure resources at-scale.
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