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August 2019
Azure SignalR Service introduces Event Grid integration feature
Announcing a new Azure SignalR Service feature that enables the service to publish client events to Event Grid. SignalR applications can subscribe and respond to these client events without the need for a dedicated app server for these events.
June 2019
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for Event Grid Notifications is now in preview
Azure Event Grid provides reliable event delivery at massive scale. Event Grid integration brings change notifications for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Spatial Operations for Azure Maps are now generally available
Spatial Operations provides applications enhanced location intelligence with a library of common geospatial mathematical calculations, (notably within the IoT space), including services such as geofencing, closest point and point in polygon.
May 2019
Advanced filtering generally available in Event Grid
Event Grid advanced filters are now GA with no restriction on the number of nested keys (e.g. Data.Key1.Key2…KeyN).
IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid - public preview
IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.
Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus
Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.
Events up to 1MB in Event Grid - public preview
Public preview of support for larger events, now up to 1MB.
Geo Disaster Recovery available in Event Grid
Automatic server-side geo disaster recovery of metadata in Event Grid is now available on the service.
Event Domains generally available in Event Grid
Azure Domains are now generally available with 100,000 topics per domain.
Azure API Management Consumption Tier is now generally available
Starting on May 29, 2019, the Consumption Tier of Azure API Management, will be generally available in the same six regions as it was during the preview.
February 2019
New features are now generally available in Event Grid
Features such as Retry policies, Dead lettering, Storage queues as a destination, Hybrid connections as a destination, and Manual validation handshake are now generally available after their time in preview
Azure Maps events in Azure Event Grid
Azure Maps is now available as an event publisher in Event Grid.
Azure Event Grid Availability in Azure US Gov regions
Azure Event Grid is now generally available in US Gov Texas, Arizona, and Virginia regions.
December 2018
Azure Monitor for containers is now available
Azure Monitor for containers is now generally available. Azure Monitor for containers monitors the health and performance of Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
November 2018
Azure Event Grid, Event Domains are in preview
Event Grid customers can now become their own event publishers using the preview of Event Domains. This offers the same technology that first-party services in Azure (such as Blob Storage) are using to publish their events so other services can take action on them.
October 2018
Azure Event Grid, Advanced filtering - Public Preview
Data payload attributes filtering is now available on Event Grid, so you can do events filtering before processing them.
September 2018
Announcing general availability of Azure IoT Hub integration with Azure Event Grid
The integration will simplify the architecture and development of IoT applications.
June 2018
Logic Apps available in US Gov
Logic Apps is available in the US Gov Texas region.
May 2018
Cloud Events in Azure Event Grid
Support for Cloud Events in Azure Event Grid is now available in preview. Cloud Events is an open standard for events that has been developed as a part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in partnership with Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, and other cloud vendors.
April 2018
IoT Hub integration to Event Grid now in preview
Azure IoT Hub integration to Event Grid is currently in preview.
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