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May 2023

May 23

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Open Source
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Pricing & Offerings
May 23

Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on

IN PREVIEW

The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Open Source
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Features
May 23

Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.

  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Features
May 23

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Container insights introduces "Cluster Optimization" workbook

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now use Azure Monitor Container insights “Cluster Optimization” workbook to optimize container limits and request, identify event anomalies and detect liveness probe failures.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Open Source
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor Log Alerts is expanding to support monitoring based on data that stored in Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, empowering customers to leverage ADX without compromising their service monitoring.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Features
May 23

Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Open Source
  • Compliance
  • Microsoft Build
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
May 10

Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python

IN PREVIEW

Onboard to Azure Monitor Application Insights using standard, cloud-native APIs and SDKs with rich data collection capabilities and a first-class Azure experience.

  • ASP.NET Core SignalR
  • App Service
  • Azure Monitor
  • Open Source
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 10

Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux

NOW AVAILABLE

Linux Azure Monitor Agent is now officially supported and tested on CIS and SELinux Operating Systems and Distros. Monitor will continue to test and support these hardening standards for AMA.

  • Azure Monitor
  • SQL Server Linux on Virtual Machines
  • Features
  • Operating System

April 2023

Apr 26

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Metrics Dataplane API released

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Metrics Dataplane API is a new approach to Azure Monitoring that improves resource insight gathering by enabling higher querying capacity and efficiency.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Resource Mover
  • Features
Apr 26

Generally available: Azure Monitor alerts now suggests signals to alert on

NOW AVAILABLE

When creating an alert rule using the Azure portal, configuring the condition of the alert rule is now made simpler with popular signals and settings.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Apr 10

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS add-on to support Windows nodes

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS metrics add-on to support Prometheus metric collection from the Windows nodes in your AKS clusters.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 31

Action Required: Transition to DCR-based KQL transformations by 31 March 2026 

Target retirement date: March 31, 2026

Custom fields feature will be retired on 31 March 2026

  • Azure Monitor
  • Retirements
Mar 29

Generally available: Azure Monitor Alerts now support duplicating alert rules

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor alert rule can now be duplicated via the Azure portal.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Mar 29

Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging of audit events for Azure services.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Features
Mar 15

Public Preview: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor container insights

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now collect Syslog from their AKS Clusters using Azure Monitor container insights

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Mar 15

Generally available: ContainerLogV2 Schema in Azure Monitor container insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor container insights now offers a new, lightweight schema for the container logs in ContainerLogV2

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Mar 15

Generally available: Metric charts support for split-by operations on multiple dimensions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Portal metric charts will now enable customers to analyze metrics on their Azure resources by supporting the split-by operator on more than one dimension.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Mar 7

Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets

NOW AVAILABLE

Application insights extension enables easy to use application monitoring for IIS-hosted .NET Framework and .NET Core applications running on Azure VMs and VM scale sets.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Mar 1

Now Available: Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries

NOW AVAILABLE

The initial stable release of the Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries is now available. Upload custom logs to Log Analytics workspaces in .NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • SDKs
  • SDK and Tools
Mar 1

Public Preview: Azure Monitor container insights offers customizable cost optimization settings

Azure Monitor container insights now allows customers to configure custom collection settings for the Perf, Inventory, InsightsMetrics, and KubeEvents tables to reduce their Log Analytics ingestion.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

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