Updates Archives
Monthly updates for January 2024
Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API
General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data plane API We are excited to share Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API is Now Generally Available! Unlock enhanced insights into the monitoring of your Azure resources with our powerful API. Explore its features and elevate your monitoring experience today!
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports
You can now run containers apps that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.
Visual Studio Code extension update for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can use VS Code extension update for AKS to interact with a new create cluster experience, abort/reconcile cluster, and more.
Generally Available: Outbound type migration in AKS
You can now update the outbound type of existing clusters without having to rebuild the cluster
General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Database session and object audit logging of database activities in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.
General Availability: Read replica in special regions with Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q1 2024
Read replica now available in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet and Azure Government regions.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024
Target availability: Q1 2024
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-January 2024.
General Availability: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q1 2024
Enhance your database monitoring with the new server log feature for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, offering customizable retention and straightforward downloading for operational excellence.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customer-managed keys allow you to use your own key for cluster data encryption at rest.
Generally available: Up to 50 test fail criteria in Azure Load Testing
You can now specify up to 50 test criteria in your load test.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers Resource Health for clusters with integration with Azure Monitor via Signals and Alerts.
Automatic Image Creation using Azure VM Image Builder is now generally available
We’re happy to announce automatic image creation using Azure Image Builder is now generally available. This feature improves your speed and efficiency by allowing you the ability to start image builds for new base images automatically.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
Kusto now has three new geospatial functions: geo_polygon_to_h3cells(), geo_angle() and geo_azimuth(). These functions are designed to help you better understand and analyze your geospatial data.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights Dependency Agent support for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs
Azure Monitor VM Insights now supports Dependency Agent for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs, enabling you to monitor their network connections and processes in the Azure portal.
Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace
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.
Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q4 2024: Spring Cloud Gateway supports a response cache and more
Recent updates to the Enterprise plan include improved response caching in Spring Cloud Gateway, a more secure try-out option in API Portal, and enhanced application-level settings in Service Connector. Additionally, there's richer build history information to help with troubleshooting. For both Enterprise and Basic/Standard plans, Azure Spring Apps now offer scheduled maintenance for updates and an auto-sync feature for certificates, making application management more efficient and secure.
General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations
Target availability: Q1 2024
Easily migrate your Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server workloads to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Azure Database for MySQL Import.
General Availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.
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