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Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs
Are you using GitHub for managing your Stream Analytics project and looking to leverage GitHub's powerful CI/CD pipeline? Follow this comprehensive guide and learn to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for your Stream Analytics jobs.
Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to ADLS Gen2 Output
Azure Stream Analytics supports for end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics
ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics!
Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.
Azure Stream Analytics is Launching a New Competitive Pricing Model!
Up to 80% price reduction in Azure Stream Analytics
Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to Event Hub Output
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Event Hub output.
Public Preview: Dynamic Blob container name
Azure Stream Analytics offers dynamic blob container name to give customers the flexibility to customize container names in Blob storage output.
Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration
Azure Stream Analytics can now fetch schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hub inputs for Avro format.
Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Monitor Log Alerts is expanding to support monitoring based on data that stored in Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, empowering customers to leverage ADX without compromising their service monitoring.
Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health
Target availability: Q2 2023
Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.
April 2023
Use Stream Analytics to process exported data from Application Insights
Target availability: Q2 2023
Use Stream Analytics to process exported data from Application Insights
Connect Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Data Explorer using managed private endpoint.
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can connect your Azure Stream Analytics job to Azure Data Explorer / Kusto clusters using managed private endpoints
February 2023
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in Feb 2023
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor GA including Power BI output support, and data preview optimization. Power BI output feature enables you to build real-time dashboard in minutes and low-cost.
January 2023
Public preview: Capture Event Hubs data with Stream Analytics no-code editor in Delta Lake format
Stream Analytics no-code editor now supports capturing Event Hubs data into ADLS gen2 with Delta Lake format.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link
Target availability: Q1 2023
Now in public preview: managed ingestion from Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer in near real time.
December 2022
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in December 2022
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor GA including multiple parameter built-in functions support, Delta Lake format support in ADLS Gen2 output sink.
Public preview: Processor diagram in Physical Job Diagram for Stream Analytics job troubleshooting
The processor diagram in physical job diagram provides you further insights within the streaming nodes of your stream analytics jobs.
November 2022
Generally available: Azure Blob CSI driver support in AKS
You no longer need to deal with manual installation as well as lifecycle management of the open-source Azure Blob CSI driver with AKS.
Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.
October 2022
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor in Event Hubs
Stream Analytics no-code editor enables you to develop a Stream Analytics job in minutes with drag and drop experience. Now, it is generally available with several new capabilities added.
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