Azure updates

We're retiring the Log Analytics agent in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Start using the Azure Monitor agent instead of the Log Analytics agent before 31 August 2024.

• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Retirements

General availability: Azure Monitor IT Service Management Connector is now certified with ServiceNow Quebec version

The Azure IT Service Management Connector is certified on the Quebec version of ServiceNow, enabling alerts integration with ITSM products.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

General availability: Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support direct proxies and Log Analytics gateway

If you use a proxy server or Log Analytics gateway to communicate to Azure Monitor, you can now start using the new Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) in these network configurations.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics

Traffic Analytics can now be enabled using Built-in Azure Policy, thus improving your deployment experience. Now organizations can enforce org wide standards and manage traffic monitoring at scale using these policies.

• Azure Monitor
• Network Watcher
• Features

General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics

Azure Network Watcher Traffic Analytics solutions is used to monitor network traffic. It now provides WHOIS and Geographic data for all Public IPs interacting with your deployments and further adds DNS domain, threat type & threat description for Malicious IPs. Now, it also supports inter-zone traffic and VMSS level traffic insights.

• Azure Monitor
• Network Watcher
• Features

Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in general availability

Now generally available, Azure Monitor insights and Azure Monitor workbooks make it easier to visualize and customize metrics for dynamic monitoring of your Azure Cosmos DB resource.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Inspire
• Management
• Features

General availability: New Azure Monitor built-in policy for Log Analytics workspace and linked automation account

A new Azure Monitor built-in policy gives you control to provision central Log Analytics workspaces and linked automation account across your subscriptions consistently.

• Azure Policy
• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now generally available

Start using or migrating to the new Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules in your production environments to leverage key new capabilities and save on ingestion costs. With support for private links and direct proxies coming soon, you would be able to use these features without compromising on your networking requirements.

• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

Public preview: Syslog event collection from Azure Monitor Agent for Linux distros

Upgrade to Azure Monitor Agent for Linux version 1.10 or above to enable syslog data collection using data collection rules for your Linux machines. 

• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

Now Available: Pricing changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure Monitor to help you reduce costs

Enjoy additional cost savings with the new price changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure monitor. These changes took effect on June 2, 2021.

• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Security
• Pricing & Offerings

Public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor

A new workbooks-based insights experience for all log analytics workspaces available per resource, and at scale.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Azure Machine Learning Managed Online and Batch Endpoints now in public preview //Build 2021.

Managed Online and Batch Endpoints, in public preview, allow for seamless deployment and operationalization

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

Public preview: Save and share log analytics queries with new query packs in Azure Monitor

Query packs are a new capability within log analytics intended to make creating, saving, managing, and discovering log analytics queries simpler and more efficient.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Public preview: Export Azure Monitor logs to multiple destinations

Logs export can be separated between multiple destinations to overcome destination rate limit and to maintain access control in destinations.

• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

Cost-optimized diagnostics feature for Azure Cosmos DB in public preview

Improve ingestion latency, query performance, and discoverability by setting up resource-specific diagnostics in log analytics with Azure Cosmos DB cost-optimized diagnostics.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Management
• Features