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General availability: Serilog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from .NET Applications via the Serilog Sink.
February 2023
General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards
We are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated General Availability of ADX Dashboards!
Now available: "Find my partner" for Azure Data Explorer
Find partners for Azure Data Explorer. Our new partner program aims to connect customers and partners with ease.
January 2023
General availability: Apache log4J2 sink to Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from Apache Log4j 2.
October 2022
General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from many receivers via the OpenTelemetry exporter.
September 2022
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator
New Azure Data Explorer offering: the Kusto Emulator is a Docker Container encapsulating the Kusto Query Engine.
August 2022
General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3
Azure Data Explorer (ADX) now supports bringing data from S3 natively without complex ETL pipelines.
April 2022
General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints
Target availability: Q1 2022
Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect to your Azure Data Explorer cluster privately
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template
We can now build an entire Azure Data Explorer environment with ARM template. Schema entities (e.g. tables, functions, policies) can be deployed without an external storage account.
March 2022
General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Conditional Access
Azure Data Explorer launches support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access.
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection
Target availability: Q1 2022
Dynamically route Azure Data Explorer data to an alternate database
January 2022
Generally available: Kibana dashboards and visualizations on top of Azure Data Explorer
Elasticsearch and Kibana users can now easily migrate to Azure Data Explorer (ADX) while keeping Kibana as their visualization tool, alongside the other Azure Data Explorer experiences.A new version…
November 2021
General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics
Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale in a code-free design environment without ever touching the Spark compute. Azure Integration Runtimes allow you to define the Spark environment and provide a serverless Spark compute for your data transformation pipelines.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer cache policy hot windows
Azure Data Explorer always supported to cache the latest ingested data for best performance. It now supports selectively caching older data which is ideal when auditing a given time period.
Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job
We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively.
General availability: New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf
This new output plugin allows you to write telemetry collected by any of the input plugins of Telegraf directly into Azure Data Explorer e.g. it makes SQL monitoring at scale better and affordable.
Public preview: Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse
Azure Synapse data explorer is optimized for efficient log analytics, using powerful indexing technology to automatically index structured, semi-structured, and free-text data commonly found in telemetry data.
October 2021
General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights
Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more.
General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters
Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss.
September 2021
General availability: Cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer
You can now write cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer, to access relevant data where you need it.
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