Azure updates

General availability: Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs

Azure Monitor agent team has shipped custom log collection and IIS log collection.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

General availability: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in Azure Portal

Log Analytics Tables can now be managed from the tables entry of Azure Portal in Log Analytics workspaces.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Public preview: Azure resource topology

Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups.

• Azure Monitor
• Network Watcher
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent with Connection Monitor

Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity to ARC enabled endpoints.

• Azure Monitor
• Network Watcher
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights Java profiling, using Java Flight Recorder

Java application profiling using Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is now in preview in Azure Monitor application insights.

• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Ignite

General availability: Azure Monitor Logs - capabilities to add value and lower costs

Azure Monitor Logs announce the general availability of capabilities that help you increase cost effectiveness.

• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Ignite

Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Azure Monitor's new fully managed Prometheus compatible service delivers the best of what you like about open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.

• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Ignite

Public preview: Azure Monitor Logs - create granular level RBAC for custom tables

Setting RBAC query read action on Azure Monitor Logs table is now publicly available.

• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Ignite

Generally available: Azure Monitor agent migration tools

Migration to the cost-effective, secure, performant, and manageable new Azure Monitor agent is now made easy using migration tools and helpers.

• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Ignite

Generally available: Azure Monitor agent support for Windows clients

Using the new Windows client installer you can now get the benefits of the new agent and data collection rules on your Windows 10 and 11 client devices.

• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Ignite

Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow alerts will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

We are retiring the Azure Monitor ITSM connector feature for creating ServiceNow alerts on 30 September 2025.

• Azure Monitor
• Services
• Retirements

Public preview: Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive

Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive on September 1, 2022.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters

Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

General availability: Update on metric alert rules on custom metrics

Metric alert rules that monitor custom metrics can now be saved in four European regions: North Europe, West Europe, Sweden Central, and Germany West Central

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Generally available: Action groups can now be saved and processed within Europe

Action groups can now be saved in European regions Sweden Central and Germany West Central (in addition to the default “global” region).

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Generally available: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup

Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Backup, via Azure Monitor.

• Azure Backup
• Azure Monitor
• Management