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RSS feedOctober 2020
Azure Key Vault Event Grid integration is now available
Azure Key Vault is now an events publisher with Azure Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events about keys, certificates, and secrets changes.
September 2020
Improvements to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
Several new features and improvements in Azure metric alerts are now available.
July 2020
Azure Data Explorer—Allocate resources automatically for Azure Blob Storage data connection
Use the new automatic resource allocation feature to define a data connection from any Azure Storage to Azure Data Explorer database.
June 2020
System topics are now an Azure resource
Explicitly create system topics using Azure Event Grid.
May 2020
Azure Data Explorer ingests up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition
Learn how to ingest up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition and continue ingestion for new blobs in only a few minutes.
Azure Event Grid partner topics are now in preview
Use partner topics to connect third-party event sources directly to Event Grid and subscribe to events as you would with any other source. Our partner Auth0 is now integrated with Event Grid partner topics. Connect your Auth0 and Azure accounts in order to react to, log, and monitor Auth0 events in real time.
Azure Event Grid support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in preview
Event Grid now supports system assigned managed identities
Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services
Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.
Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.
App Service is now an events publisher on Azure Event Grid (in preview)
App Service is now an events publisher with Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events from their web apps or app service plans and act using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, webhooks, and other services. The feature is available for Windows and Linux apps in all public regions.
Private Link is now available on Event Grid
Azure Event Grid now has Private Link integration for custom topics and event domains generally available in all Azure regions
April 2020
Azure Data Explorer—One-click ingestion support is now available
Azure Data Explorer now has support for one-click ingestion from containers, along with continuous ingestion for new blobs with intuitive schema definition.
March 2020
Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.
Azure Data Explorer deployment into Azure Virtual Networks now generally available
Deployment of an Azure Data Explorer into a virtual network is now generally available. Use this feature to isolate the network traffic and limit the attack surface for Azure Data Explorer and their corresponding communications.
February 2020
Azure Event Grid on Azure IoT Edge preview 2 is now available
Azure Event Grid on Azure IoT Edge preview 2 is now available, with updates including data plane persistence to disk, monitoring capabilities, and additional destination types.
November 2019
Device telemetry events from IoT Hub to Event Grid
Azure IoT Hub integrates with Azure Event Grid so that you can send event notifications to other services and trigger downstream processes. workflows
IoT Hub message enrichment is now available
IoT Hub message enrichment adds the ability to stamp messages with rich information before they’re sent, simplifying downstream processing and accelerating customer insights.
Enhanced observability for event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid now integrates with Azure Monitor alerts.
Publish to Azure Active Directory protected endpoints from Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid can now publish events to AAD protected endpoints
Batch delivery in Azure Event Grid for high-throughput scenarios now in preview
Azure Event Grid subscriptions can now be configured to publish events to your endpoints in batches (and not only individually) in order to handle more efficiently high-throughput scenarios.
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