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Public preview: Apache Parquet capturing support in Azure Event Hubs
Target availability: Q2 2022
Load real-time streaming data in Azure Event Hubs to data lakes, warehouses, and other storage services in Parquet format.
May 2022
Public preview: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Autoscaling allows you to define the minimum and maximum streaming units. Stream Analytics will automatically take care of dynamically optimizing the number of streaming units needed for your workload.
Generally available: Stream Analytics query development improvements
See improvements to the Stream Analytics query development experience on the Azure portal to increase productivity.
Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster
Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.
Public preview: Stream Analytics no code editor
Stream Analytics no code editor provides a rich, no code, drag and drop experience for you to build you streaming pipeline within minutes.
Public preview: Additional support for managed identity authentication in Azure Stream Analytics
Stream Analytics now supports authenticating to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Service Bus using Managed Identities.
April 2022
Generally available: DNS reservations to prevent subdomain takeover in Cloud Services deployments
Target availability: Q2 2022
As a preventive measure, DNS record is reserved for seven days to allow clean-up of dangling DNS domains or reclaim from same Azure Active Directory tenant only.
Generally available: Diagnostic audit logs for Automation accounts
Forward Azure Automation diagnostic audit logs to Log analytics workspace to keep track of changes at the automation account level.
March 2022
Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in 10 new regions
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data.
Public preview: User-assigned managed identities in Stream Analytics
You can now use user-assigned managed identity to authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to inputs and outputs without ever having to worry about credential management.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q1 2022
Machine Learning user-defined function in Stream Analytics allows you to perform high throughput, low latency, real-time predictions, allowing you to act on insights which have a very short shelf-life.
Azure Time Series Insights will be retired on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 31 March 2025 – transition to Azure Data Explorer
February 2022
Generally available: Log Analytics data export in Azure Monitor
Log Analytics data export is ready for production deployments, supporting most tables in Log Analytics workspaces.
December 2021
Azure Stream Analytics jobs to write to Azure Database for PostgreSQL in public preview
Choose Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server, Flexible Server, or Hyperscale (Citus) as an output for your Azure Stream Analytics jobs to store real time analytical data.
November 2021
Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job
We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively.
Azure App Service - Diagnostic settings feature reaches general availability
Send web app and platform logs on App Service to Azure Monitor, enabling new observability scenarios.
Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available
Azure Cognitive Service for Language provides high-quality natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering.
General availability: Stream Analytics now offers support for Availability Zones with Dedicated Cluster
Azure Availability Zones enabled Stream Analytics allows you to run mission-critical applications with higher availability and fault tolerance to datacenter failures.
October 2021
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East
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.
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics
Spring Cloud Config Server and Service Registry access using Azure Active Directory and Nginx ingress logs and metrics are now available in preview in Azure Spring Cloud.
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