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RSS feedNovember 2019
Azure Storage—Restoration of NSG flow logs retention
Retention on NSG flow logs was recently disabled, however, the functionality has been restored for general purpose v2 (GPv2) accounts and Blob storage accounts. Support for general purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts in NSG flow logs is being deprecated and retention for them will not be restored.
Traffic Analytics accelerated processing option
Traffic Analytics, a cloud based network audit and compliance solution, now provides faster insights into user and application activity on cloud networks.
September 2019
Monitor bandwidth usage for all peered Azure virtual networks with ExpressRoute
Monitor bandwidth use for all peered Azure virtual networks with an improvement to ExpressRoute, a capability of Network Performance Monitor.
July 2019
Network Watcher is now Generally Available in South Africa North
Network Watcher is available in South Africa North region.
February 2019
Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) for Azure Network Watcher
Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) and traffic analytics are available in all public cloud regions.
November 2018
Enhancements to NSG flow logs for Azure Network Watcher
Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) are available in the West Central US region. They include per-flow throughput statistics.
Azure Network Watcher enabled by default for subscriptions that contain virtual networks
We’re rolling out changes to enable Network Watcher by default for subscriptions that contain a virtual network. This will simplify and improve your network troubleshooting experience.
August 2018
Troubleshoot connectivity issues in a virtual network
The Virtual Network portal blade has been enhanced to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues or continually monitor your network endpoints from virtual machines (VMs) in a virtual network.
March 2018
General availability: Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor in all public regions
Use Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor to monitor and troubleshoot connectivity from an Azure virtual machine to anywhere.
January 2018
General availability: Azure Network Watcher in Microsoft Azure Germany
Use Azure Network Watcher to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.
General availability: Azure Network Watcher in Microsoft Azure Government
Use Azure Network Watcher, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.
October 2017
Azure networking available only in the Azure portal from October 4
Azure Networking features will be available only in the Azure portal from October 4th, 2017. Networking related feature support from the classic Portal will be deprecated starting October 4th.
September 2017
Azure Network Watcher connectivity check for ExpressRoute
Azure Network Watcher announces the preview of connectivity check for ExpressRoute circuits.
July 2017
Azure Network Watcher: Blob storage path update for NSG flow logs
On July 31, 2017, the Azure Network Watcher team will begin to update the Azure Blob storage path for NSG flow logs.
Public preview: Connectivity check in Azure Network Watcher
Use Azure Network Watcher connectivity check to test connectivity between Azure virtual machines.
May 2017
General availability: Azure Network Watcher in all public regions
Use Azure Network Watcher, now in general availability, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.
March 2017
General availability: Azure Network Watcher
Use Azure Network Watcher, now in general availability, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.
February 2017
Public preview: Azure Network Watcher
Use Azure Network Watcher, now in public preview, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.
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