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General availability: Azure Log Analytics UI updates May 2021
Azure Log Analytics for May 2021 include a new and updated experience for custom logs management and pinned parts filter integration.
April 2021
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in South India.
Public preview: Stateful and 1-minute frequency log alerts in Azure Monitor
Log search based alerts can now be automatically resolved, and query can be evaluated every minute for faster time to fire.
General availability: Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group
You can now use the same workspace name in deployments across all your environment without a conflict. This is useful in template deployments when the same name can be used for every deployment for consistency.
General availability: New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor
With Azure Monitor built-in policy definitions for data encryption, you can enforce organizational standards and assess compliance of data encryption settings in your environment.
Public preview: Functions upgrade in Azure Monitor log analytics
We have upgraded the functions experience in log analytics, providing new UI and capabilities to allow you to do more with functions.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021
March updates include jobs, data export, monitoring, and documentation improvemnets.
Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021 now generally available
Update to the newest Windows Agent. Now available with support fixes and a new troubleshooting tool.
March 2021
General availability: Enhanced Azure Dashboards experience for pinned Log Analytics parts
Log Analytics enhances pinned parts Azure Dashboards experience.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Australia Central 2
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 Australia Central 2.
General availability: Azure monitor for containers now supports Pods & Replica set live logs in AKS resource view
View live logs of your pods & replica-sets in Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) resource view. Filter, search, and troubleshoot your pods and replica-sets.
General availability of Persistent Volume monitoring & Reports tab in Container Insights
Container Insights from Azure Monitor now enables you to monitor the capacity of the Persistent Volumes. You can visualize via workbooks, query, and write alerts. You can now access all your Kubernetes related visualizations such as Node-disk, Node-network, Workloads, & Persistent Volume, and many more in new Reports (tab).
Azure SQL auditing to Log Analytics and Event Hub are now generally available
Auditing for Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics to Log Analytics and Event Hub are now generally available, allowing the centralization of SQL audit logs into a single go-to-location.
Backup Reports is now generally available
Gain visibility into backup job statistics, consumption trends and optimization opportunities across your Recovery Services vaults.
February 2021
IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Paris version
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in Australia Central 2
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in Australia Central 2.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West
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 UAE Central & Japan West.
New Azure Monitor Agent available on latest Linux distros and new regions
The new Azure Monitor Agent now supports the latest Linux distros and can be installed on additional new regions using Data Collection Rules.
January 2021
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in UAE Central & Japan West.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West
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 Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West .
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