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March 2024

Mar 27

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry collector support

IN PREVIEW

You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 19

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

NOW AVAILABLE

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Network Watcher
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source
Mar 12

WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure Communication Services Advanced Messaging is now generally available, enabling developers to send and receive messages from their applications through third party social messaging platforms, like the WhatsApp Business Platform. This latest messaging service helps businesses create intelligent B2C communication workflows to reach more customers at scale and deliver safe, reliable communications to customers worldwide.

  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

February 2024

Feb 19

Execute Azure Monitor Logs connector on exact time range provided dynamically (preview)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor Logs connector lets you query data in your Log Analytics workspace or Application Insights components per Logic App trigger or schedule, and list or visualize results. The Time range…

  • Log Analytics
  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Feb 1

Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: May 31, 2024

As of May 31, 2024, log alert rules will no longer support cross-workspace queries that use resource names or qualified name identifiers.

  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Retirements
  • Features

December 2023

Dec 18

Generally Available: Multi-line Logging Feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is designed to simplify and streamline your Log Analysis. This feature allows you to seamlessly collect and store multiple lines of log data within a single log entry, enhancing the ease with which you can view and analyze logs from your containerized applications.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Dec 11

General Availability - Snapshots feature of Azure App Configuration

NOW AVAILABLE

Assure stable production configuration, get efficient rollbacks, and a comprehensive configuration audit trail for enhanced reliability in Azure.

  • Features
Dec 1

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement

IN DEVELOPMENT

TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023

  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Compliance

November 2023

Nov 30

Generally available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for ASP.NET Core Applications

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights.

  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
  • SDK and Tools
Nov 20

General availability: Azure Monitor Application Insights Browser SDK Loader for Node.js

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Azure Monitor Application Insights Node.js customers can enable real user monitoring (RUM) with a simple configuration.

  • Application Insights
  • Management
  • SDK and Tools
Nov 15

General Availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard)

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are also excited to announce the general availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard). This new capability gives you a simplified experience for discovering insights about your Logic App workflows and more control over filtering events at the source and reducing your storage costs. 

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations

IN PREVIEW

Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc
  • Windows for IoT
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite
Nov 15

Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles

IN PREVIEW

You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 6

Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: March 14, 2025

The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date.  The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free for public use on GitHub and will continue to be maintained. 

  • Retirements
  • Features
Oct 2

Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)

IN PREVIEW

We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Resource Graph (ARG) tables, and even joining data between Azure Resource Graph (ARG) data sources from your Log Analytics workspace and Application Insights resources in a single query.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Alerts
  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 29

Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024 – delete profiles

Target retirement date: March 15, 2024

Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024  

  • Azure Internet Analyzer
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Retirements
Sep 29

Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024 - transition to using Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Python Distro

Target retirement date: September 29, 2023

Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Retirements
Sep 22

Azure Monitor for AKS-Engine will not be supported on 14 September 2026

Target retirement date: September 14, 2026

Azure Monitor for AKS-Engine will not be supported after 14 September 2026 - enable Azure Monitor to monitor AKS clusters migrated from AKS-Engine

  • Retirements
  • Features
Sep 22

Transition to using standard tests for single-step availability testing in Azure Monitor application insights by 30 September 2026

Target retirement date: September 30, 2026

URL ping tests in the application insights feature will be retired on 30 September 2026.

  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Retirements
Sep 20

Generally available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for Node.js and Python

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Management
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source

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