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May 2022

May 6

Azure VM insights guest health (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022

Target retirement date: November 30, 2022

Transition to Azure Monitor log alerts for VM guest health by 30 November 2022.

  • Retirements
May 5

General availability: Virtual Network NAT health checks available via Resource Health

NOW AVAILABLE

With Azure Resource Health, diagnose and get support for service problems that affect Virtual Network NAT (NAT gateway).

  • Services
  • Features

April 2022

Apr 13

Public preview: Health probes support in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now use readiness, liveness, and startup probes in your Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 6

Public preview: Azure Backup supports metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs

IN PREVIEW

You can now monitor the restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management

March 2022

Mar 28

IoT connector preview feature in Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2022

Target retirement date: September 30, 2022

Migrate to MedTech service feature which provides stronger security and supportability.

  • Azure API for FHIR
  • Retirements
Mar 2

Public preview: Enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer for Azure Applied AI Services

IN PREVIEW

Azure Form Recognizer now supports extraction from custom documents, W-2 forms, access to the read API, additional human languages and enhancements.

  • Features

January 2022

Jan 27

General availability: Azure API Management updates in January 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

Regular API Management service updates for January 2022 with new features, bug fixes, and other improvements.

  • API Management
  • Services
Jan 6

Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.

NOW AVAILABLE

Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses.

  • Traffic Manager
  • Azure Firewall
  • Services
  • Security

December 2021

Dec 15

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): New toolkit certifications generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

New Toolkit certifications are now available on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 2

General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.

  • Azure Monitor
  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure Firewall
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
  • Security
Nov 2

General availability: Log Analytics Workspace Insights in Azure Monitor

NOW AVAILABLE

Log Analytics Workspace Insights provides rich insights on usage, performance, health, agents, queries, and a change log.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

Public preview: Metrics and Metric alerts for Azure Backup

IN PREVIEW

Azure Backup now provides built-in metrics to enable you to monitor the health of your backups and write custom alert rules on these metrics.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Monitor
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Management

October 2021

Oct 27

General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • Management
Oct 21

General availability: Azure Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East

IN PREVIEW

Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Regions & Datacenters
Oct 20

General availability: Azure Spring Cloud application health monitoring and end-to-end TLS/SSL

NOW AVAILABLE

Application lifecycle and health monitoring with Azure Activity log and Azure Service Health, and end-to-end TLS/SSL are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud.

  • Features

September 2021

Sep 22

Azure Resource Health for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview

IN PREVIEW

With Azure Resource Health, diagnose and get support for service problems that affect Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Management
  • Open Source
  • Features
Sep 1

Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace

IN PREVIEW

Dynatrace OneAgent performance monitoring is now integrated in Azure Spring Cloud in collaboration with Dynatrace for end-to-end observability of Spring Boot applications.

  • Features

August 2021

Aug 31

Azure Security Center: General availability updates for August 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in August 2021.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Services
  • Security
Aug 18

Enhanced troubleshooting experiences now generally available for additional resources in Network Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now access resource topology views and pre-built monitoring workbooks for Private Link, NAT Gateway, Public IP, and NIC resources in Azure, via Network Insights.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Aug 18

Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Scheduled maintenance for Hyperscale (Citus) now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Now Hyperscale (Citus) supports custom maintenance schedules with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Open Source
  • Features

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