Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana in Public, Government (Fairfax) and China

Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:17 Z

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana are generally available, bringing the power of Grafana’s open and composable visualization platform directly into the Azure Portal. This capability enables developers and operators to create, edit, and share Grafana d
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Management, Open Source

Azure SRE Agent for Azure Monitor Alerts: Reduce Alert Fatigue, Investigate What Matters

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:28:00 Z

The Alert Problem Organizations running Azure Monitor tend to land in one of two situations: Alert fatigue has set in. Alert rules tend to grow over time — a CPU threshold from two years ago, a...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, SRE Agent, Categories:

Migrating Splunk Logs to Azure Application Insights on VMs

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:35:00 Z

Phase 0 – Understanding the Current Environment Before touching any code or agents, map out the existing architecture. Current setup: Applications write logs via log4net → local log files on ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:45:55 Z

Azure Monitor provides a complete set of services for monitoring the health and performance of different layers of your Kubernetes infrastructure and the applications that depend on it.Azure Monitor support for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Azure Monitor Pipeline: A Modern Approach to Telemetry Ingestion at Scale

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:23:00 Z

Large-scale observability often fails not because of analytics, but because of ingestion. As environments grow—across regions, clouds, and on‑premises sites—traditional log forwarding architectures s...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Ingest at Scale, Securely - Azure Monitor pipeline Is Now Generally Available

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:51:00 Z

Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Monitor pipeline — a telemetry pipeline built for secure, high-scale ingestion across any environment. But the best way to understa...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Monitor pipeline

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:30:49 Z

Azure Monitor pipeline is now generally available.Azure Monitor pipeline provides a centralized control point for telemetry ingestion and transformation, designed specifically for secure, high‑throughput, enterprise‑scale scenarios. It's built on open-sou
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Transition to Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by September 30, 2026

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:15:14 Z

*Note: Previously announced to be retired March 31, 2026. We have extended the retirement date to September 30, 2026. On September 30, 2026, API keys used query application insights will be retired. ou'll need to transition to Microsoft Entra ID (formerl
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Retirements

Azure Monitor supports native OTLP ingestion using the Azure Monitor Agent

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:30:53 Z

Azure Monitor now supports native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals. Send telemetry directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications by using the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) to receive OTLP from your apps and export it to Azure Monitor
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Categories: Management, Open Source

New in Azure SRE Agent: Log Analytics and Application Insights Connectors

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:14:00 Z

Azure SRE Agent now supports Log Analytics and Application Insights as log providers, backed by the Azure MCP Server. Connect your workspaces and App Insights resources, and the agent can query them ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, SRE Agent, Categories:

Monitor AKS applications with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:45:02 Z

Azure Monitor now supports monitoring applications that run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and data collection.Leverage autoinstrumentation to deploy the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry distro to workloads or use
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Open Source

Service Mesh-Aware Request Tracing in AKS with Istio and Application Insights

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:37:00 Z

Introduction As platforms evolve toward microservice‑based architectures, observability becomes more complex than ever. In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), teams often rely on Istio to manage servic...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Monitor AI Agents on App Service with OpenTelemetry and the New Application Insights Agents View

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:43:00 Z

Part 2 of 2: In Blog 1, we deployed a multi-agent travel planner on Azure App Service using the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) 1.0 GA. This post dives deep into how we instrumented those agents with...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Observability in AKS Namespace and Workload Views

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:02 Z

AKS now surfaces observability data powered by Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus directly within Namespace and Workload views, making it easier to:Monitor cluster and workload healthTroubleshoot pending or failed podsAnalyze resource utilizatio
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Monitor in Azure SRE Agent: Autonomous Alert Investigation and Intelligent Merging

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:20:00 Z

Azure Monitor is great at telling you something is wrong. But once the alert fires, the real work begins — someone has to open the portal, triage it, dig into logs, and figure out what happened. That...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, SRE Agent, Categories:

Deprecation of sidecar for remote-write for Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:30:50 Z

On March 31, 2027 Azure Monitor will be deprecating the sidecar for remote-write of Prometheus metrics to Azure Monitor Workspace. This is as part of our ongoing efforts to improve reliability and reduce complexity.We recommend configuring your self-hoste
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Management, Retirements

AKS managed GPU metrics in Azure Monitor

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:30:36 Z

Teams running GPU‑backed workloads often lack integrated visibility into GPU utilization alongside Kubernetes metrics. AKS managed GPU metrics automatically expose performance and utilization data from NVIDIA GPU‑enabled node pools into managed Prometheus
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Azure Monitor Prometheus community recommended alerts for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:30:29 Z

Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of Prometheus recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters. These alerts, based on enhanced Prometheus community rules, provide comprehensive coverage across cluste
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Categories: Features, Management

Ingest OTLP data into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:15:45 Z

Azure Monitor now supports native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals, enabling you to send telemetry data directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications and platforms to Azure Monitor. You can configure your OpenTelemetry Collector
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Open Source

Summary rules in Log Analytics workspace now support manual “Retry bin”

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:15:25 Z

Summary rules run batch aggregation inside your Log Analytics workspace and re-ingest the summarized results into a custom destination table. When a bin fails, that can create gaps in your summarized dataset. “Retry bin” helps you remediate bin-level fail
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Secure ingestion and pod placement for Azure Monitor pipeline

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:30:50 Z

We are announcing several capabilities in public preview with Azure Monitor pipeline. Secure Ingress to Azure Monitor pipeline from external endpoints (TLS/mTLS) with Bring Your Own Certificates: BYOC empowers enterprises to maintain contr
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Announcing new public preview capabilities in Azure Monitor pipeline

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:40:00 Z

Azure Monitor pipeline, similar to ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process, enhances traditional data collection methods. It streamlines data collection from various sources through a unified ingestio...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Public Preview: Azure Monitor pipeline transformations

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:16:00 Z

Overview The Azure Monitor pipeline extends the data collection capabilities of Azure Monitor to edge and multi-cloud environments. It enables at-scale data collection (data coll...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Announcing Application Insights SDK 3.x for .NET

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:25:00 Z

Microsoft remains committed to making OpenTelemetry the foundation of modern observability on Azure. Today, we’re excited to take the next step on that journey with a major release of the Application...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Monitor pipeline data transformations

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:45:47 Z

Azure Monitor pipeline data transformations feature is now Public Preview! This feature enables users to shape telemetry before it’s ingested into Azure Monitor, helping them control ingestion costs, improve data quality, and simplify analytics at scale.B
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

"Send data to Event Hubs & Storage (Preview)" retiring July 31, 2026

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:30:02 Z

On July 31, 2026, we'll retire preview feature “Send virtual machine client data to Event Hubs and Storage (Preview)” and it will no longer be supported by Microsoft. You will not be able to create any new data collection rules using this feature, and any
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Event Hubs, Categories: Management

Announcing public preview of query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:55:00 Z

Azure Monitor metric alerts are now more powerful than ever Azure Monitor metric alerts now support all Azure metrics - including platform, Prometheus, and custom metrics - giving you complete cove...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Generally Available - Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) Scale Limits Increased by 10x!

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:22:00 Z

Introduction We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) scale limit increase, delivering 10x scalability improvements compared to previous ...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Private Link, Categories:

Azure Monitor to Fabric Eventhouse

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 Z

A typical enterprise environment involves managing numerous Virtual Machines (VMs) and necessitates aggregating their telemetry into a centralized, scalable analytics repository. Running on top of all this infrastructure are solutions (applications, APIs, etc.) handling operational data your business care about. Querying data across your infrastructure telemetry, application telemetry and enterprise data can give you insights … Continue reading “Azure Monitor to Fabric Eventhouse (Preview)”
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:00:32 Z

Azure Monitor provides a complete set of services for monitoring the health and performance of different layers of your Kubernetes infrastructure and the applications that depend on it.Azure Monitor now supports Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories: Services, Management

Recommended alerts for Azure Monitor Workspace

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:45:05 Z

Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for Azure Monitor Managed service for Prometheus customers. These alerts enable you to monitor the ingestion limits for Azure Monitor Workspace and avoid metr
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Management

General Availability: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:55:00 Z

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Monitor Logs! This capability enables you to set fine-grained data access control at the row...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Advanced sampling and richer data collection in Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:02 Z

Azure continues to embrace open standards by adding new capabilities to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro that powers Azure Monitor Application Insights. New Capabilities:Rate-limited sampling and trace-based log sampling: New sampling options in th
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Announcing General Availability: Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:56:00 Z

Continuing our commitment to open-source solutions, we are announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana. This service offers a powerful solution for cloud-native monit...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Copilot observability agent

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:30:36 Z

Cloud operations need more than reactive troubleshooting, they demand intelligent observability that scales across resources and delivers actionable insights when services aren’t performing as expected.Introducing the Azure Copilot observability agent tha
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Simplify Application Monitoring for AKS with Azure Monitor (Public Preview)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:12:00 Z

As cloud-native workloads scale, customers increasingly expect application and infrastructure observability to be unified, automated, and devops-friendly. Azure Monitor is advancing this vision with ...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Troubleshoot with OTLP signals in Azure Monitor (Limited Public Preview)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:09:00 Z

As organizations increasingly rely on distributed cloud-native applications, the need for comprehensive standards-based observability has never been greater. OpenTelemetry (OTel) has emerged as the i...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

OpenTelemetry visualizations and enhanced monitoring experience in Azure Monitor for Azure VMs and Arc Servers

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

OpenTelemetry based visualizations in Azure Monitor are in public preview, along with an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc Servers. This release consolidates key monitoring capabilities into a single view and intro
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Azure Monitor unified onboarding experience for AKS and VMs

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

Azure Monitor now offers a unified, single-click onboarding experience for both Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs). This new experience simplifies setup by automatically deploying the latest Azure Monitor capabilities with
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

We’re bringing Azure Monitor’s dynamic threshold capabilities to Log search alerts!Using dynamic thresholds means you don't have to know the right threshold for each Log alert rule - Dynamic thresholds calculate the most appropriate thresholds for you.Key
Update Type: Preview, Services: Machine Learning, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Integration with Fabric Real Time Intelligence Eventhouse

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:44:00 Z

Customers need to enable different scenarios to successfully operate their IT/OT environments and business processes for meeting business objectives. Building solutions to solve these problems requir...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:00:28 Z

Azure Monitor metric alerts now support all Azure metrics - including platform, Prometheus, and custom metrics - giving you complete coverage for your monitoring needs. In addition, metric alerts now offer powerful query capabilities with PromQL, the indu
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Introducing SDK Stats to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:00:46 Z

As part of our journey to make Azure the most observable cloud, we are adding a new way for you to observe your Azure Monitor Application Insights data collection pipeline. One of the foremost reasons customers file support tickets against Azure Monitor A
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, SDK and Tools

Announcing public preview of query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:43:00 Z

Azure Monitor metric alerts are now more powerful than ever Azure Monitor metric alerts now support all Azure metrics—including platform, Prometheus, and custom metrics—giving you complete coverage...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Introducing the enhanced query diagnostics in Azure Log Analytics

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:35:00 Z

We’re excited to introduce a set of new capabilities that simplify query diagnostics and troubleshooting in Azure Log Analytics. With this new experience, users can now easily resolve query issues ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Announcing resource-scope query for Azure Monitor Workspaces

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:32:00 Z

We’re excited to announce the public preview of resource-scope query for Azure Monitor Workspaces (AMWs)—a major step forward in simplifying observability, improving access control, and aligning with...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Legacy Authentication in Azure Monitor - Container Insights will be retired on September 30, 2026.

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:00:16 Z

Legacy Authentication in Azure Monitor - Container Insights will be retired on September 30, 2026. Legacy authentication has been replaced by the more secure Managed Identity authentication method. Migrating to Managed Identity also gives customers acces
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Retirements

Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance will be retired on Sep 30, 2026

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:15:20 Z

After September 30, 2026, customers will no longer be able to access the service. Please see our retirement documentation for more details. Recommended action If your goal is to monitor on-premises workloads, please transition to Operations Manager on-pre
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Categories: Management, Retirements

Visualize New Azure Resource Manager Metrics through Azure Monitor

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:30:44 Z

We are announcing that Azure Resource Manager now offers enhanced integration with Azure Monitor Metrics for your subscriptions! You can now have deeper visibility and more granular monitoring capabilities for your Resource Manager operations.You can acce
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Management

The Insights blade in AKS is now called Monitor

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:00:02 Z

The Insights blade in AKS has been renamed to Monitor and relocated from the Monitoring section to the top level of the table of contents for increased visibility. You’ll continue to have access to the same monitoring data and features—there are no change
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Retirements

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:52:00 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana, a major step forward in simplifying observability for your apps and environments. With thi...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Container Apps, Categories:

Unlocking Real-Time Operational Intelligence: Azure Monitor Logs Integration in Fabric via Eventstream

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:00:00 Z

In today’s data-driven landscape, operational agility depends on the ability to respond to insights as they happen. Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) is transforming the way organizations ingest, transform, and analyze their data, introducing new possibilities for immediate action and decision-making. For organizations using Microsoft Fabric, integrating monitoring data from Azure resources is very relevant … Continue reading “Unlocking Real-Time Operational Intelligence: Azure Monitor Logs Integration in Fabric via Eventstream”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Monitor, Categories:

High Scale mode for Azure Monitor – Container Insights

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:30:10 Z

Container Insights is Azure Monitor’s solution for collecting logs from your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters. Announcing the general availability of High scale mode in Container Insights to help customers achieve a higher log collection throughput fr
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:00:39 Z

Announcing the Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal at no additional cost. This integration marks a major milestone in our mission to simplify observability reducing the administrative overhea
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Multitenant Managed Logging in Container Insights

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:30:49 Z

The Multitenant Managed Logging feature in Container Insights is now generally available, offering customers who operate shared AKS clusters the ability to segregate container logs by team. This functionality enables teams to independently manage and acce
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Generally Available - High scale mode in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:25:00 Z

Container Insights is Azure Monitor’s solution for collecting logs from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.  As the adoption of AKS continues to grow, we are seeing an increasing number of ...
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Generally, Available: Search Job in Log Analytics - Now Supporting Up to 100 Million Results

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:45:10 Z

Search Job lets you run asynchronous queries across all your workspace data, including long-term retention, and delivers results in new Analytics tables for further exploration.We’re excited to announce that the maximum number of records returned by a Sea
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Send signals from Micronaut applications to Azure Monitor through zero-code instrumentation

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:52:00 Z

The original post (Japanese) was written on 13 August 2025. Zero code instrumentationでMicronautアプリケーションからAzure Monitorにtraceやmetricを送信したい – Logico Inside This entry is a series posts below. Pleas...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Send logs from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:23:00 Z

The original post (Japanese) was written on 29 July 2025. MicronautからAzure Monitorにlogを送信したい – Logico Inside This entry is related to the following one. Please take a look for background informat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Send traces from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:03:00 Z

The original post (Japanese) was written on 23 July 2025. MicronautからAzure Monitorにtraceを送信したい – Logico Inside This entry is related to the following one. Please take a look for background inform...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Send metrics/traces/logs from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:27:00 Z

This is the header for a series of entries summarising how to send metrics, logs and traces from Micronaut Native Image applications to Azure Monitor (Application Insights).
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Send signals from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:27:00 Z

Send metrics from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:21:00 Z

The original post (Japanese) was written on 20 July 2025. MicronautからAzure Monitorにmetricを送信したい This entry is related to the following one. Please take a look for background information. Send met...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Announcing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts in Azure Monitor

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:00:08 Z

Introducing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts - a new preview capability in Azure Monitor that enables customers to receive proactive notifications about service health issues impacting their entire tenant, not just individual subscriptions. With this fe
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Increase ingestion quota for Azure Managed Prometheus with an ARM API

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:30:15 Z

Azure Monitor workspaces have default limits and quotas for ingestion. Customers can now request for an increase in quota for ingestion of Managed Prometheus metrics into Azure Monitor Workspace using an Azure Resource Manager API. The API supports reques
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

General Availability of Azure Monitor Network Security Perimeter Features

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:00:00 Z

We’re excited to announce that Azure Monitor Network Security Perimeter features are now generally available! This update is an important step forward for Azure Monitor’s security, providing comprehe...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Security

Search Job Enhancements in Log Analytics

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:30:26 Z

A Search Job is an asynchronous query that runs on any data in your Log Analytics workspace, including data from the long-term retention period, making the results available for further queries in a new Analytics table within your workspace. We’ve recent
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Log Analytics Summary rules

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:15:02 Z

Announcing the general availability of Summary rules in Log Analytics. Summary rules let you summarize high-ingestion-rate streams across Analytics, Basic, or Auxiliary plans, providing robust analysis, dashboarding, and long-term reporting experiences on
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Introducing the Improved Search Job Experience in Azure Monitor Log Analytics

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:45:00 Z

A search job is an asynchronous query that runs on any data in your Log Analytics workspace, including data from the long-term retention, making the results available for further queries in a new Ana...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

VM Insights Map and Dependency Agent are being on June 30, 2028

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:15:12 Z

Dependency Agent and VM Insights Map will be retired on June 30, 2028 and no longer be supported. With this retirement, all functionality associated with the VM Insights Map and the Dependency Agent will be completely retired. After this date, customer
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Retirements

Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:45:57 Z

We're announcing the General Availability of Query Editor in Azure Metric Explorer through Azure Monitor Workspace (AMW). With this update, customers can directly query Prometheus metrics using PromQL within their Azure Monitor workspace. This empowers us
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Monitor ingestion issues with Azure Monitor Workspace

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:45:37 Z

Azure Managed Prometheus sends metrics into Azure Monitor Workspace. Customers can now view and monitor issues with ingestion of Prometheus metrics as part of the platform metrics for the Azure Monitor Workspace. Ingestion errors are issues that occurred
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs to Enhance VM Troubleshooting

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:00:04 Z

Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, is expanding its integrated diagnostics capabilities with the Public Preview of Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs. On-demand Performance Dia
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Public Preview: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs

Tue, 27 May 2025 10:39:00 Z

Introducing the new Granular RBAC capability, enabling data access control at the row level.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Send a Custom Event from the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:10 Z

Custom Events offer developers a way to track user or system actions that matter to their business or observability objectives. For example, a developer may want to track an end-user action such as selecting a button, submitting a form, or completing a pu
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management, SDK and Tools

VM Network Troubleshooter

Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:10 Z

Customers can identify blocked ports faster with the Azure Portal's latest enhancement. The VM Overview blade in the Azure Portal has a new troubleshooter tool allowing users to run network diagnostics and check for common ports being blocked. This greatl
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Categories: Features, Management

Managed Prometheus visualizations in Azure Monitor for Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Container insights visualizations were previously powered by metric data from Log Analytics. This new feature offers customers the option to power these visualizations using managed Prometheus data, offering a more cost-efficient and performant solution.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management, Open Source

Managed Prometheus visualizations and enhanced monitoring experience in Azure Monitor for AKS

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Managed Prometheus visualizations in Azure Monitor are now generally available, along with an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This release brings comprehensive monitoring capabilities into a single, streamlined
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management, Open Source

Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of Prometheus recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters. These alerts, based on enhanced Prometheus community rules, provide comprehensive coverage across cluste
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management, Open Source

Azure Monitor Prometheus community recommended alerts for AKS

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Monitor now offers one-click enablement of Prometheus recommended alerts directly in the Azure Portal for AKS clusters. These alerts, based on enhanced Prometheus community rules, provide comprehensive coverage across cluster, node, and pod levels.
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management, Open Source

Log Analytics cross-regional Workspace Replication

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Log Analytics Workspace Replication. Cross-regional workspace replication enhances resilience to regional incidents by enabling workspace owners to switch over to another region as necessary. A copy o
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI query limit increased to 100K records

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI now supports up to 100,000 records per query, a significant increase from the previous 30,000-record limit. This enhancement enables deeper investigations and broader data analysis directly within the portal, allowing users
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Log Analytics

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:45:29 Z

Many organizations emphasize the need to segregate and control access to data in a granular manner, while maintaining a centralized logging platform. On top of the existing capabilities of Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace and table level access, you
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Smarter Troubleshooting in Azure Monitor with AI-powered Investigation

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:45:48 Z

These capabilities enhance your troubleshooting experience and streamline diagnosing and resolving health degradation of your application and infrastructure. AI-powered Investigations enable fast troubleshooting, diagnosing and resolving problems efficien
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Private Preview: Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:30:08 Z

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new feature in Azure Monitor: Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2, available during May.Key Benefits:Personalized Alert Emails: This feature enables customers to personalize the subject lines of
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:30:08 Z

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor, available starting in mid-May. This new feature is designed to provide a simplified and more intuitive experience for monitoring and alerting, enhancing your ability to d
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana

Mon, 19 May 2025 19:45:50 Z

Starting on May 19, 2025 you can create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure Portal without any additional cost and less administrative overhead than self-hosting Grafana or using managed Grafana services. Grafana dashboards for Azure Kubern
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Open Source

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor health models

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:12:00 Z

Troubleshooting modern cloud-native workloads has become increasingly complex. As applications scale across distributed services and regions, pinpointing the root cause of performance degradation or ...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Public Preview: Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

Public Preview: Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor, available starting in mid-May. This new feature is designed t...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Public Preview: Smarter Troubleshooting in Azure Monitor with AI-powered Investigation

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Announcing the Launch of Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2 in Azure Monitor

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 Z

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new feature in Azure Monitor: Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2, available during May. What it is Customizable Email Subjects for Lo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Introducing Terraform support for Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for Azure landing Zones (ALZ)

Mon, 19 May 2025 08:48:00 Z

Introduction We're thrilled to introduce Terraform support for Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for Azure Landing Zones (ALZ). This new module is designed to streamline the deployment process, ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Troubleshoot the Azure Arc Agent in Azure using Azure Monitor & Log Analytics Workspace

Thu, 08 May 2025 10:07:00 Z

This article explores how to centralize logging from on-premises servers—both physical and virtual—into a single Log Analytics Workspace. The goal is to enhance monitoring capabilities for the Azur...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Categories:

Log Ingestion to Azure Log Analytics Workspace with Logic App Standard

Thu, 08 May 2025 08:43:00 Z

Currently, to send logs to Azure Log Analytics, the recommended method involves using the Azure Log Analytics Data Collector. This is a managed connector that typically requires public acc...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Metrics Usage Insights

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:30:13 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of ‘metrics usage insights’, a feature currently designed for Azure Managed Prometheus users which will analyze all metrics ingested in Azure Managed Workspace (AMW), surfacing actionable insights to optimize your observabili
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Multitenant managed logging in Container insights

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:15:08 Z

This is useful for customers who operate shared cluster platforms using AKS. Customers need the ability to configure container console log collection in a way that segregates logs by different teams so that each has access to the container logs of the con
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Public Preview: Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor Workspace

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:59:00 Z

As organizations expand their services and applications, reliability and high availability are a top priority to ensure they provide a high level of quality to their customers. As the complexity ...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Firewall resource specific log tables get Azure Monitor Basic plan support

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:00:21 Z

All resource specific log tables for Azure Firewall now support the Basic log plan which can reduce your logging costs by 80%. However, Policy Analytics and Security Copilot integrations will not work with the Basic log plan. Learn more: About this new
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Firewall, Copilot for Security, Categories: Features, Security, Management

HELM chart-based onboarding workflow for the Azure Monitor Container Insights agent is retiring on October 1, 2025

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:30:50 Z

Starting October 1, 2025, the HELM chart-based onboarding workflow for the Container Insights agent will be retired. To ensure your clusters are secure and running smoothly, please migrate to Azure Arc Kubernetes Container Insights Extension by October 1,
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Categories: Management, Open Source, SDK and Tools, Retirements

Azure Monitor Application Insights Auto-Instrumentation for Java and Node Microservices on AKS

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:15:16 Z

Application Insights integration for Java and Node microservices is now available in Public Preview. You can now easily monitor your Java and Node deployments without changing your code by leveraging auto-instrumentation that is integrated into the AKS cl
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Synthetic Monitoring in Application Insights Using Playwright: A Game-Changer

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:41:00 Z

Monitoring the availability and performance of web applications is crucial to ensuring a seamless user experience. Azure Application Insights provides powerful synthetic monitoring capabilities to he...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Implementing Baseline Alerts with Azure Monitor for Mission-Critical Applications

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 04:15:00 Z

Introduction Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) is a powerful, policy-driven solution that provides preconfigured alert definitions for a broad range of Azure services. By leveraging historical p...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Application Insights auto-instrumentation for AKS

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:30:40 Z

To provide seamless monitoring for Java and Node deployments, AKS now offers Application Insights integration for Java and Node microservices. This integration, available in public preview, allows customers to easily monitor their deployments without chan
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Observe Quarkus Apps with Azure Application Insights using OpenTelemetry

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:17:00 Z

Overview This blog shows you how to observe Red Hat Quarkus applications with Azure Application Insights using OpenTelemetry. The application is a "to do list" with a JavaScript front end and a RES...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Log Analytics Delete Data API

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:45:15 Z

The Delete Data API lets you make asynchronous requests to remove data, such as sensitive, personal, or corrupt from your Log Analytics workspace. This API is more performant than Purge API since tagging logs as deleted, rather than performing heady delet
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:30:50 Z

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes is a fully managed Prometheus compatible service from Azure Monitor that delivers the best of what you like about the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such a
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Managed Grafana, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Open Source

Monitoring OpenAI Agents SDK with Application Insights

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:36:00 Z

As AI agents become more prevalent in applications, monitoring their behavior and performance becomes crucial. In this blog post, we'll explore how to monitor the OpenAI Agents SDK using Azure Applic...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Monitor OpenAI Agents SDK with Application Insights

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:36:00 Z

Azure Managed Prometheus Supports Horizontal Pod Autoscaling for Replica Set Pods in AKS

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:00:06 Z

Azure Monitor Managed service for Prometheus now supports Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) for the ama-metrics replica set pod by default. With this update, the ama-metrics replica set pod which handles the scraping of Prometheus metrics with custom jobs
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Log Analytics Agent-based Azure Management Services: Shut down starting 28 February 2025

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:56:00 Z

Overview The legacy Log Analytics (LA) agent, which has played a critical role in transferring data logs for software and applications to Azure, was deprecated on August 31, 2024. Subsequently, all...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Management

Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:30:37 Z

Azure Monitor Logs is excited to introduce the next leap in log experience: Simple mode. Azure Monitor Logs offers a powerful set of capabilities for users to explore their logs and derive meaningful insights from their data estate. Until now, Azure Mon
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Features, Management

Introducing the New AKS Monitoring Experience - Unified Insights at Your Fingertips

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:00:38 Z

We're excited to announce the public preview of our enhanced Monitoring experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This redesign of the existing Insights experience brings comprehensive monitoring capabilities into a single, streamlined view, addressi
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Log Analytics Simple Mode is Now Generally Available

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:50:00 Z

Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Monitor Integrates Performance Diagnostics for Enhanced VM Troubleshooting

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:15:34 Z

Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, is enhancing the troubleshooting of VM performance issues with the integration of Performance Diagnostics within your Azure Monitor workflow.This integration
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Collect Azure Container Storage metrics with Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus (Public Preview)

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:00:28 Z

Azure Container Storage is a cloud-based volume management, deployment and orchestration service and works with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to effectively scale across storage services while providing a cost-effective, container-native experience. Cu
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Storage, Kubernetes Service, Managed Grafana, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:30:54 Z

On May 1, 2025, in alignment with the Azure-wide legacy TLS retirement announcement, TLS 1.0/1.1 protocol versions and TLS 1.2/1.3 Legacy Cipher Suites and Elliptical Curves will be retired for Application Insights Availability Tests. If you’re using any
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:00:33 Z

We are excited to announce the general availability of Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor – Container Insights! This enhancement adds Kubernetes metadata to the ContainerLogsV2 schema, including PodLabels, PodAnnotations, PodUid, Imag
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

General Availability: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor-Container Insights

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:17:00 Z

Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor – Network Security Perimeter Features

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:32:00 Z

Azure Monitor services now extend support to Network Security Perimeter (NSP) features, enabling Azure PaaS resources to communicate securely within a trusted boundary. The integration of NSP feature...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Security

Retirement: Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 Z

TLS 1.0/1.1 and Legacy TLS configurations for Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired on March 1, 2025
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor is retiring

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:00:44 Z

On October 31st, 2025, Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor will be retired. As a result, any workloads using Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor will be deleted and the associated application data will be lost.Before the retirement d
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

App Insights Code Optimizations

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:45:58 Z

Application Insights Code Optimizations helps you identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the code level in your running .NET applications. Utilizing an advanced AI-based model, it analyzes Application Insights profiler traces and provides actiona
Update Type: GA, Services: App Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor is retiring

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

App Insights Code Optimizations

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:30:29 Z

Retirement: Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor is retiring

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor support for Change Analysis API will be retired on October 31st, 2025.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

Generally Available: App Insights Code Optimizations

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z

Optimize performance of your .NET apps at the code level. 
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET is now generally available

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:53:13 Z

Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET is now generally available Application Insights Code Optimizations helps you identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the code level in your .NET applications running on Azure. Utilizing an advanced AI-based model, it analyzes Application Insights profiler traces and displays actionable next steps in the Azure portal at no additional cost. This saves time and increases your productivity from detection in the Azure portal to code-level resolution with GitHub Copilot. The AI model is developed in-house based on Microsoft’s experience with large-scale cloud services like Azure, Teams, Microsoft 365, and Xbox. It is not trained or fine-tuned using your code or your performance traces. Once your App Insights profiler is collecting and uploading traces for your .NET applications, the Code Optimizations analysis happens automatically. Identify – Application Insights Code Optimizations Based on your feedback, you can see all Code Optimizations recommendations across Azure subscriptions and Application Insights resources in the Azure portal. This helps you keep track of code-level performance recommendations for all your environments in one place (including dev, test, pre-production and production). Recommendations are updated every hour. By default, the view shows a rolling 24-hour window of recently identified issues. When your application is under higher load, you might see more recommendations, while during quieter periods, you might not see any. There is a 30-day history for you to review and analyze past events. Resolve – GitHub Copilot with Code Optimizations extension (preview) Developers are very excited about how effectively they can consult with GitHub Copilot for code fixes specific to issues detected by Code Optimizations. In either Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code, you can install the Application Insights Code Optimizations extension (preview) and have GitHub Copilot provide a code fix grounde
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Services

Reminder New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Log alerts are one of the alert types that are supported in Azure Monitor. Log alerts allow users to use a log analytics query to evaluate resources logs every set frequency, and fire an alert based on the results. Rules can trigger one or more actions us
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Compliance, Services

Azure Diagnostic Extensions set to Retire in 18 months

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

On March 31st, 2026, we'll retire the Azure Diagnostic Extensions for Windows and Linux (WAD/LAD) and it will no longer be supported by Microsoft. This also includes the collection of diagnostic extension data from Azure Storage accounts imported into Log
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Categories: Retirements

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor Metrics Export

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:26:00 Z

Today, customers can create Diagnostic Settings in their resources to export metric data for their resources to a set of destinations. Currently, export of metrics supported via Diagnostic Settings is limited. Customers cannot export metrics with dimensions, not all metrics are supported, and it incur a few minutes of latency. We are excited to announce a platform metrics from Azure Monitor. This powerful addition allows customers to export metrics for their Azure resources on a large scale with full fidelity and low latency, along with the new added ability to filter particular metrics while configuring exports. Azure Monitor Metrics Export is configurable through Data Collection Rules (DCR), which provides the capability to route Azure resource metrics data to Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Event Hubs and Azure Log Analytics Workspace for 18 resource types and 10 Azure public regions. Here are some key features and benefits of Azure Monitor Metrics Export – Easily scalable: DCR is the de facto collection configuration mechanism in Azure Monitor; it allows setting a collection config once and applying it at scale to many resources. DCR now provides an easier solution to span across subscriptions to export resources metrics at scale and provides flexibility if more resources need to be added in an existing DCR configuration. Flexibility on what to collect: Customers can filter collection with a few select metrics or all metrics for a given set of resources, allowing for volume and cost control. With the new enhanced experience, customers can easily access the metrics they deem most important. Export with full fidelity and low latency: Resource metric data is exported with dimensional information which provides ease of correlation. This feature significantly improves the metrics export latency. By using Azure Monitor Metrics export, organizations can streamline their monitoring processes and improve their infrastructure's overall performance. We look forward
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Regions & Datacenters

Announcing Azure Monitor Metrics Export in public preview

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor Metrics Export is configurable through Data Collection Rules (DCR), which provides the capability to route Azure resource metrics data to Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Event Hubs and Azure Log Analytics Workspace for 18 resource types and 10
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Categories: Management

Public Preview: Announcing Azure Monitor Metrics Export in public preview

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce a new way of exporting platform metrics from Azure Monitor. This powerful addition allows customers to export metrics for their Azure resources on a large scale, with full fidelity and low latency, along with the ability to select particular metrics while configuring exports.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Azure Monitor Alert Alerts: Log Search Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds (Private Preview)

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:15:58 Z

Azure Monitor introduces Dynamic Thresholds also for Log Search Rules, revolutionizing how you set up log and monitor search alerts. Say goodbye to manual threshold tuning and hello to intelligent, adaptable monitoring. Here’s why dynamic thresholds are a game-changer: Automatic Calibration: Dynamic thresholds calculate the right alert levels for you. They adjust as your system evolves, ensuring timely alerts without false positives. Smart Learning: Dynamic thresholds analyzing historical data, learning patterns and trends. They adapt to your application’s unique behavior, whether it’s daily spikes or weekly lulls. Alerting At Scale: Create a single rule for any multi dimensions alert. Dynamic thresholds define different alert threshold band for every dimension combination. Effortless Setup: Just enable dynamic thresholds, no need to have a specific knowledge of the data to setup alert thresholds. Dynamic thresholds empower you to stay proactive, minimize downtime, and keep your systems running smoothly. Use Cases Here you can find use cases for dynamic threshold: Use Case: Monitoring CPU Behavior in Virtual Machines Background: Users can now calculate guest VM metrics using the Perf table in Log Analytics, enabling the creation of a single alert rule for all your VMs across different regions using dimensions. Previously, customers could only set up dynamic threshold metric alerts for host CPU usage. Goal Statement: The primary goal of this use case is to monitor the CPU behavior within virtual machines (VMs) and detect irregular patterns that may indicate performance issues. Scenario definitions: Problem Identification: The team wants to ensure optimal performance and identify any CPU-related issues promptly. Use Case Description: The CPU utilization data is being collected from each VM. The system using the model analyses the CPU behavior over time, looking for deviations from the expected pattern. Deviations may include sudden spik
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Regions & Datacenters

Enhancements to Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts for Azure Landing Zones

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:30:16 Z

Introduction Welcome to our latest blog post where we dive into a number of exciting new key updates, highlight the new portal accelerator, and explain how to begin using it with just a few easy steps. Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts offers a robust solution with recommended alert rules for Azure services. These best-practice rules can be deployed via ARM and Bicep templates or as Azure Policy definitions. Additionally, there are a growing list of patterns within AMBA offering guidance and deployment methods for monitoring different scenarios like the Azure Landing Zones pattern. As cloud technologies evolve, so do the tools and frameworks that support effective management and monitoring of these environments. We have recently introduced several exciting updates to Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for Azure Landing Zones (ALZ). These updates are designed to provide a more modular, flexible, and comprehensive monitoring experience. Updated ALZ Portal Accelerator In tandem with the new AMBA features, the ALZ Portal Accelerator has also been updated. This includes integration of the latest AMBA capabilities, providing a seamless and cohesive monitoring setup experience. The updated accelerator ensures that users have access to the most recent tools and features, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of their monitoring strategies. The ALZ portal accelerator is designed for initial setup of Azure Landing Zones in a new environment where Email, ARM Roles and Webhooks can be selected as part of the initial deployment AMBA ALZ pattern now also supports Logic Apps, Functions or Event Hubs as well as 'Bring your own Action Group' however, this requires these resources to be deployed prior to deployment. When planning to deploy AMBA with these settings, first disable AMBA within the ALZ portal accelerator. Then, configure the required resources for your Logic App, Function, or Event Hub, and afterwards, use the AMBA portal acce
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Azure Monitor experience (preview) in HDInsight is retiring by February 1, 2025

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:00:00 Z

On February 1, 2025, Azure HDInsight is retiring the Log Analytics used in Azure Monitor experience (preview).In case you migrated from Classic Log Analytics to New Azure monitor experience (preview), you would have completed adjustments to the new table
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: HDInsight, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Retirements

Retirement: Azure Monitor experience (preview) in HDInsight is retiring by February 1, 2025

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 Z

Migrate from Azure Monitor experience (preview) in Azure HDInsight to Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) before January 31, 2025
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: HDInsight, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Public Preview: High Scale mode for Azure Monitor – Container Insights

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 Z

Using the new High Scale mode in Container Insights, customers can send up to 50K logs per second per node from their AKS clusters.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Operator/CRD support with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:20:00 Z

We are excited to announce that custom resource definitions (CRD) support with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now generally available. Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is a component of Azure Monitor Metrics, allowing you to collect and analyze metrics at scale using a Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, based on the Prometheus project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This fully managed service enables using the Prometheus query language (PromQL) to analyze and alert on the performance of monitored infrastructure and workloads. What's new? With this new update, customers can customize scraping targets using Custom Resources (Pod Monitors and Service Monitors), similar to the OSS Prometheus Operator. Enabling Managed Prometheus add-on in an AKS or ARC-enabled AKS will deploy the Pod and Service Monitor custom resource definitions to allow you to create your own custom resources. If you are already using Prometheus Service and Pod monitors to collect metrics from your workloads, you can simply change the apiVersion in the Service/Pod monitor definitions to use them with Azure Managed Prometheus. Earlier, customers who did not have access to kube-system namespace were not able to customize metrics collection. With this update, customers can create custom resources to enable custom configuration of scrape jobs in any namespace. This is especially useful in a multitenancy scenario where customers are running workloads in different namespaces. Here is how a leading Public Sector Banking and Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) company in India has used Service and Pod monitors custom resources to enable monitoring of GPU metrics with Azure Managed Prometheus, DCGM Exporter, and Azure Managed Grafana. “Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus provides a production-grade solution for monitoring without the hassle of installation and maintenance. By leveraging these manag
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Managed Grafana, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services

Generally Available: Operator and CRD support with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports Prometheus Operator model and Custom Resource Definitions for Service and Pod Monitors.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Public Preview: New Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor is announcing the public preview of a new logs plan called Auxiliary Logs.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Security, Management

Generally Available: New capabilities added to Azure Monitor Basic Logs plan

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor Basic Logs is announcing new capabilities to maximize customer benefit and enhance functionality.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Security, Management

Retirement: API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview”

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

The API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview” that is in preview mode will be deprecated from the date 10-10-2024
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Compliance, Services, Management, Retirements

Public Preview: Advanced Network Observability for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters through Azure Monitor

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Customers now have access to pod level metrics and DNS metrics for troubleshooting their AKS cluster networks.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, and even joining data between those data sources in a single query.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Features, Management

Public Preview: Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Windows VMs to enhance VM Troubleshooting

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, announces the launch of Continuous Performance Diagnostics. This new feature elevates the existing on-demand Performance Diagnostics for Azure VMs by providing continuous, actionable insights into high resource usage. It empowers you to swiftly diagnose performance issues, optimize resource utilization, and maximize efficiency. Now available in Public Preview for Windows VMs, Continuous Performance Diagnostics is the next leap in Azure VM performance troubleshooting with Azure Monitor.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Monitor Log Enablement Policy Expansion

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new and updated Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging at-scale for Azure services.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro adds Live Metrics

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor now offers a way to get Live Metrics while using vender-neutral OpenTelemetry APIs that are the foundation of the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Open Source, SDK and Tools

Public Preview: Summary rules in Azure Monitor Log Analytics, for optimal consumption experiences and cost

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Aggregate ingested data to workspace continuously per given query and cadence to enable efficient queries on large data sets and time ranges.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics dedicated clusters now supported in Azure portal

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Manage Log Analytics Dedicated cluster in Azure portal.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Announcing Azure Monitoring Agent support in Azure Landing Zones

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:53:03 Z

Introduction Hello and welcome to another blog post about Azure Landing Zones, the best practice framework for accelerating your cloud adoption journey. In this post, I will share with you some of the latest updates and enhancements that we have made to Azure Landing Zones. One of the main components of Azure Landing Zones is the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA), which enables you to collect and analyze data from your virtual machines, virtual machine scale sets, and hybrid resources. AMA provides a unified agent experience for Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, and other services. AMA replaces the legacy Log Analytics agent and Dependency agent, and offers better performance, reliability, and security. We are happy to announce that all the implementation methods, including Terraform and Bicep have been updated and Azure Landing Zones is now exclusively using AMA for all its monitoring scenarios. This means that you can benefit from the latest features and capabilities of AMA, such as the ability to send custom logs and metrics, use Azure Arc to monitor hybrid resources, and leverage Azure Policy to deploy and manage AMA at scale. Terraform upgrade guide [User Guide] Upgrade from v5.2.1 to v6.0.0 Bicep release notes: v0.18.0 Release Notes As MMA is deprecating, as of the 31st of August 2024, please make sure that you are working towards migrating to AMA to avoid falling out of support. We're retiring the Log Analytics agent in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure Key Updates and Enhancements Since January 2024, the Portal Accelerator has been utilizing AMA and has received a significant update. Let's explore the specifics of the recent updates. Centralization of the User Assigned Managed Identity One of the most noteworthy advancements is the centralized approach to User Assigned Managed Identities (UAMI). Here are the key highlights: Centralized UAMI: Azure Landing Zo
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Arc, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Generally Available: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics dedicated clusters now supported in Azure portal

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:21:12 Z

Status: Now Available You can now create and manage dedicated clusters in Azure portal including cluster create, delete, link and unlink workspaces, change commitment tier and view clusters’ configuration. Up until now, clusters could be provisioned and managed programmatically using CLI, PowerShell, and REST – We’ve received your asks to support it in Azure portal for simpler configuration and view, and easily answer questions like: how many workspaces are linked, or what is the commitment tier? Additional experiences such as Customer-managed key configuration are planned next. Dedicated cluster Overview Reference Dedicated cluster Related Products Azure Monitor Log Analytics _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Public Preview: Summary rules in Azure Monitor Log Analytics, for optimal consumption experiences and cost

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:21:12 Z

Status: In Preview Summary rules allows you to aggregate ingested data to a workspace for each given query and cadence, and ingest the result back to a custom log table in workspace for optimal consumption experiences and cost. Summary rules operates as batch processing directly in your Log Analytics workspace. It aims to summarize incoming data to your workspace in small chunks, defined by bin size, and ingest the results to Analytics custom log table in your workspace. While running complex queries on large data sets may time-out, and is limited on Basic tier, it's much easier to analyze and report on summarized data that has been “cleaned” and aggregated to a reduced set of data that you need. Example scenarios: Perform analysis and reports on large data sets and time ranges for security and incident analysis, month-over-month and annual business reports. Optimize cost ingesting low fidelity or verbose logs to tables in lower tier (e.g. Basic), and summarize to Analytics table that can be used for reports, dashboards, or analysis, and retained for long time in lower cost. Segregate table level access for privacy and security, by obfuscation of privacy details in summarized data that can be shared. Summary rules diagram Rule configuration Initial configuration is provided via REST in public clouds, and follow with Bicep and Terraform. CLI, PowerShell, and Azure portal are planned in the future around general availability. Reference Summary rules article Related Products Azure Monitor Log Analytics _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Security

Generally Available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro adds Live Metrics

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:21:12 Z

Status: Now Available Azure Monitor application insights is a cloud native application monitoring offer which enables customers to observe failures, bottlenecks, and usage patterns to resolve incidents faster and reduce downtime. Live Metrics is a production-grade capability within Azure Monitor application insights that enables you to see telemetry flowing off your application with one-second latency. For example, you may use Live Metrics as you deploy updates to production to see real-time key metrics (e.g. failure rate change). The Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry “Distro” includes a thin wrapper that enables you to get started with a single line of code, and it includes added Azure-specific capabilities such as Live Metrics to give you a first-class experience on Azure. Today’s announcement adds Live Metrics to .NET, Node.js, and Python. The Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Java Distro already had Live Metrics. Our immediate next step is to add filtering to Live Metrics, so that you can customize your near-real time view. Learn More: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/app/opentelemetry-enable https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/app/live-stream Related Products: Azure Monitor Application Insights _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Generally Available: Azure Monitor Log Enablement Policy Expansion

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:21:12 Z

Status: Now Available Azure Monitor enables customers to gain end-to-end observability into their applications, infrastructure, and network by collecting, analyzing and acting on telemetry data from their cloud and hybrid environments. Diagnostic settings is a common mechanism by which customers can enable collection of platform logs that Azure makes available on the performance of their Azure resources. The Azure Monitor team has recently released into general availability (GA) new built-in policies and initiatives for enabling diagnostic settings at scale for all log categories, and updated initiatives for auditing customer interactions with service settings and service data via Azure Policy. https://aka.ms/azmonauditpolicy Related Products: Azure Monitor
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Categories: Services

Announcing Advanced Container Networking Services for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0700

Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is excited to announce a new offering called Advanced Container Networking Services. It’s a suite of services built on top of existing networking solutions for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to address complex challenges around observability, security, and compliance.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services

New and improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:53:57 Z

Azure Network Watcher provides network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to increase observability and actionable insights. Network Watcher supports four main scenarios: Connectivity Monitoring detects packet loss and latency, built-in health metrics and topology visualization help to locate issues, traffic monitoring tracks network communication pattern, and diagnostics suite enables troubleshooting. Efficient management and monitoring of cloud networks is crucial for peak performance, security, and reliability. The blog explains how the new topology experience can help you manage and monitor your cloud network infrastructure with enhanced visualization, simplified monitoring, valuable insights and contextual issue localization capabilities. What is network topology and why is it important? Topology has been a much used and appreciated feature of Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights. This upgrade empowers users to create a unified, and interconnected representation of network deployment across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups, including networking resources, Virtual Machines (VMs) and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), along with insights into connectivity and traffic. Topology helps users understand resource allocation, system context, and enables faster problem solving. Topology becomes a valuable resource for network administrators to understand large scale network architecture for inventory management and easy troubleshooting. It also aids application administrators and DevOps engineers in understanding the application's network structure and the interconnections among its components and resources. What's new in the network topology experience? The following table compares the extra capabilities from traditional to the updated topology experience. Capability Classic Topology New Topology Available at Network Watcher
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Categories: Security, Management, Regions & Datacenters

Added support for Azure Monitor log search alert rules in Resource Health

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Resource Health helps you diagnose and get support for service problems that affect your Azure resources. Azure Resource Health now supports log search alert rules, so that you can use the activity log to check the health status of your log search alert rules.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Compliance

Added support for Azure Monitor log search alert rules in Resource Health

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 Z

Public Preview: Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor Logs is excited to introduce the next leap in log experience: Simple mode. Simple Mode allows users to utilize Azure Monitor Logs in a simple, point-and-click experience, eliminating the need for KQL for most common use cases.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Feature Update: Azure Action Groups

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Customers using action groups with the notification type Email Resource Manager Role may see that different or more users are getting emails than were previously.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Accelerate your observability journey with Azure Monitor pipeline (preview)

Wed, 29 May 2024 18:30:27 Z

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital infrastructure, transparency in resource and application performance is imperative. Success hinges on visibility, and that’s true whether you’re operating on Azure, on-premise, or at the edge. As organizations scale their infrastructures and applications, the volume of observability data naturally increases. This surge can complicate the management of networking, data storage and ingestion, often forcing a trade-off between cost management and observability. The complexity doesn’t end there. The very tools designed to ingest, process, and route this data can be both costly and complex, adding layers of operational challenges. Moreover, edge infrastructure is deployed near IoT devices for optimal data processing, high availability, and reduced latency. This adds its own set of challenges when it comes to collecting telemetry from such constrained environments. Recognizing these challenges, our team has been focused on providing a robust, highly scalable, and secure data ingestion solution through Azure Monitor. We are thrilled to announce the preview of the Azure Monitor pipeline at edge. What is Azure Monitor pipeline? Azure Monitor pipeline, similar to ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process, enhances traditional data collection methods. It streamlines data collection from various sources through a unified ingestion pipeline and utilizes a standardized configuration approach that is more efficient and scalable. This is particularly beneficial for cloud-based monitoring in Azure. We are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling high-scale data ingestion with centralized configuration management. What is Azure Monitor pipeline at edge? Azure Monitor pipeline at edge is a powerful solution designed to facilitate high-scale data ingestion and routing from edge environments to Azure Monitor for observability. It leverages the robust capabilities of the vendor-agnostic
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering is now in Public Preview. Gain richer context and improved visibility into their workloads!
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Managed Grafana, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Activity log alert rules can now be saved in European regions, ensuring the alert metadata and processing remains within EU Data Boundary.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Compliance

Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now surfaces default alerts via Azure Monitor for critical events such as replication health turning unhealthy, failover failures, agent expiry, and so on. You can monitor these alerts via the Azure Business Continuity Center, Azure Monitor dashboard, or your Recovery Services vault and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice (Email, ITSM, Webhook, SMS).
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Compliance, Services, Management

Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery

Wed, 22 May 2024 07:22:55 Z

As a Backup and Site Recovery Admin, one of your key roles is to be on top of all critical incidents and ensure timely resolution from an outage. Azure Site Recovery now offers an improved alerting solution for Azure Site Recovery on Azure Monitor. This includes default alerts via Azure Monitor, which will enable you to have consistent experience for alert management across different Azure services. With Azure Monitor based alerts, you can route alerts to any notification channel supported by Azure Monitor, such as email, Webhook, Logic app, and more. You can also use other alert management capabilities offered by Azure Monitor, for example, suppressing notifications during a planned maintenance window, correlate alerts, etc.    Benefits of Azure Monitor Ability to configure notifications to a wide range of notification channels - Azure Monitor supports a wide range of notification channels such as email, ITSM, webhooks, logic apps, and so on. You can configure notifications for backup alerts to any of these channels without needing to spend too much time creating custom integrations. Ability to select which scenarios to get notified about - With Azure Monitor alerts, you can choose which scenarios to get notified about. You also have the flexibility to choose whether to enable notifications for test subscriptions or not. Ability to manage alerts and notifications programmatically - You can leverage Azure Monitor’s REST APIs to manage alerts and notifications via non-portal clients as well. Ability to have a consistent alerts management experience for multiple Azure services including backup - Azure Monitor is the established paradigm for monitoring resources across Azure. With the integration of Azure Backup with Azure Monitor, backup alerts can be managed in the same way as alerts for other Azure services without requiring a separate paradigm. Alerts scenarios    Azure Sit
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Management

Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews

Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights

Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Container insights now supports out of the box visualizations using only managed Prometheus.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions

Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Log Analytics is announcing Workspace Replication, a new capability that enhances workspace resilience by enabling you to switch your workspace operation to another region if your primary region isn’t healthy.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Announcing Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata & Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor-Container Insights

Tue, 21 May 2024 19:28:19 Z

Today at Build, we are excited to announce the Public Preview of Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights! This new feature enhances the ContainerLogsV2 schema with additional Kubernetes metadata such as PodLabels, PodAnnotations, PodUid, Image, ImageID, ImageRepo and ImageTag. The Logs Filtering feature provides filtering capabilities for both workload and platform (i.e. system namespaces) logs coming out of containers. Additionally, enhance your Kubernetes Metadata experience by leveraging the Grafana dashboard to visualize log levels, volume, rate, records and much more. With these features, users gain richer context and improved visibility into their workloads. Key Features Enhanced ContainerLogV2 schema with Kubernetes Metadata Fields: Detailed metadata fields enhance log analysis. These include “podLabels,” “podAnnotations,” “podUid,” “image,” “imageID,” “imageRepo,” and “imageTag.” Customized Include List Configuration: Users can tailor metadata fields via ConfigMap. All fields are collected by default. Enhanced ContainerLogV2 schema with Log Level: Assess application health with color-coded severity levels (e.g., CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING). Helps incident response and proactive monitoring. Annotation Based Log Filtering for workloads: Efficient log filtering through podAnnotations. Focus on relevant information, optimizing costs and resource usage. ConfigMap Based Log Filtering for platform logs (System Kubernetes Namespaces): Enables ability to configure log collection of specific pods within the system namespaces through ConfigMap. Grafana Dashboard for Visualization: Visualize log levels, log volume, rate, records, and more. The Grafana dashboard empowers in-depth analysis and real-time monitoring. To learn more and enable the Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering experience, follow the steps here: https://aka.ms/KubernetesMetadataAndLogsFilteringDocumentation If you have any questi
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications

Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Classic roles will be retired by 31st August, 2024 – transition to using only additional email addresses for Azure Autoscale Notifications as Azure Autoscale is dependent on the Azure Classic Roles.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

Public preview: Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling seamless and high-scale data ingestion with centralized configuration management.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups integrated with actionable connectivity and traffic insights
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Categories: Features, Security, Management

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Management

GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Multi-resource metrics query support in the Azure Monitor Query libraries

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:43:09 Z

Learn how to query metrics for multiple Azure resources at once using the Azure Monitor Query libraries.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Introducing Query editor: Empowering Users with PromQL in Azure Monitor Metrics!

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:25:39 Z

We're thrilled to announce the public preview launch of Query Editor in Azure Monitor Metrics, an advanced feature that allows customers to query and write PromQL queries directly within their Azure Monitor workspace (AMW). This long-awaited addition comes as a direct response to the growing demand from our customers, and we're excited to finally deliver this capability to you. What’s new? Unlocking the Power of PromQL: Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) has emerged as a standard in the realm of monitoring and observability, offering users flexibility and expressiveness in querying metric data. With the Query Editor in Azure Monitor Metrics, users can now harness the full potential of PromQL to derive actionable insights for their resources. Previously, users in the Azure portal were unable to query their Prometheus metrics on AKS or Arc-enabled clusters sent to Azure Monitor Workspace via Azure Managed Prometheus in the portal. With this new capability, users can now query Prometheus metrics for their AKS resource or Arc-enabled clusters directly in the Query editor within the portal. Seamless Querying Experience: With the Query Editor, users can compose and execute PromQL queries directly within their Azure Monitor workspace that they are emitting metrics to. This streamlines the monitoring workflow, enabling users to stay focused and productive without the hassle of context switching while querying different types of metric data. Benefits of Query editor with PromQL: Rich Query Language: PromQL offers a rich set of functions and operators for querying metric data, allowing users to perform complex aggregations, transformations, and calculations with ease. Familiarity and Interoperability: For users familiar with Prometheus-based monitoring solutions, the Query Editor provides a familiar environment for querying Azure metrics, facilitating a smoother transition and interoperability between platforms. How it works? Using the Query Editor is simple. Just navigate
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

Enable Prometheus community recommended alerts to monitor key signals to be promptly notified on potential critical issues within your clusters.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Four Strategies for Cost-Effective Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:11:44 Z

Effective cost management in Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics is essential for controlling cloud expenditures. It involves strategic measures to reduce costs while maximizing the value derived from ingested, processed, and retained data. In Azure, achieving this balance entails adopting efficient data ingestion methods, smart retention policies, and judicious use of table transformations with Kusto Query Language (KQL). Understanding the impact of data management practices on costs is crucial since each byte of data ingested and stored in Azure Log Analytics incurs expenses. Table transformations—such as filtering, projecting, aggregating, sorting, joining, and dropping data—are a great way to reduce storage and ingestion costs. They allow you to filter or modify data before it’s sent to a Log Analytics workspace. Reducing ingestion cost and also reducing long-term storage. This document will explore four key areas to uncover strategies for optimizing the Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics environment, ensuring cost-effectiveness while maintaining high performance and data integrity. Our guide will provide comprehensive insights for managing cloud expenses within Azure services. Key Areas of Focus: Ingestion Cost Considerations: The volume of data ingested primarily influences costs. Implementing filters at the source is crucial to capture only the most relevant data. Data Retention Strategies: Effective retention policies are vital for cost control. Azure Log Analytics allows automatic purging of data past certain thresholds, preventing unnecessary storage expenses. Optimization through Transformations: Refining the dataset through table transformations can focus efforts on valuable data and reduce long-term storage needs. Note that these transformations won't reduce costs within the minimum data retention period. Cost Management Practices: Leveraging Azure Cost Management and Billing tools is crucial for gaining insight int
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cost Management, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Management

Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

The classic built-in analytics dashboards will be retired on 15 March 2027.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: API Management, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Retirements

Azure Monitor Availability alerts using Resource Graph Queries

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:57:57 Z

We recently announced how you can use Azure Log Analytics to create alerts on Azure Resource Graph queries. Here, I wanted to discuss possible scenarios and examples on how this can be used to check the availability for services across Azure and even on Azure Arc enabled resources. Azure Resource Graph queries Azure Resource Graph is a service within Azure that enhances Azure Resource Management. It allows you to explore resources efficiently and quickly by running queries across a specific group of subscriptions. These queries are written in the Kusto Query Language (KQL), which is a widely used format with other Azure services like Log Analytics. Trivia: Most of the screens you see on Azure portal give you an option to check the KQL query behind getting that data. Using Graph queries to generate alerts Earlier, it was only possible to generate alerts using Log Analytics queries or Metrics. Now, the alerts can be generated on Azure Resource Graph queries. This can really help with setting up the availability alerts for most of the Azure services. Let us take a look at it with some examples. SQL Managed Instance Availability SQL MI supports various types of Metrics and Logs with Azure Monitor. However, sometimes, customers only want to receive a simple alert on whether the instance is up or down. ARG query can let you know the state of the instance which can be further converted to an alert. Resources | where type == "microsoft.sql/managedinstances" | project name, state = tostring(properties.state) The above query can give you the current state of the SQL MI instance. Now, this same query can be converted to an alert. The idea is to check if the SQL MI instance is in any other state than “Ready” and generate the alert. For this, we can write something like this: Resources | where type == "microsoft.sql/managedinstances" | extend state = tostring(properties.state) | extend available = iif(state=="Ready" ,1 ,0) | project name, available Result: To co
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Arc, Categories: Services, Management

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Compliance, Services

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and was available in 26 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 13 additional regions.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Regions & Datacenters

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping for Prometheus instance served with TLS. To enable TLS and mTLS based scraping, you can configure the TLS settings in the ConfigMap.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

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

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

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…
Update Type: Preview, Services: Logic Apps, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Public preview: AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

You can now monitor the health, load and performance of the API server and etcd in the control plane of your AKS clusters
Update Type: Preview, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Azure Monitor- Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:37:03 Z

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Azure Monitor has been committed to providing insights into Azure resources. Azure's extensive API services have allowed customers to glean valuable data about their resources, facilitating deep analytics and informed decision-making. However, for those customers who require large-scale and high-frequency access to metric data, the existing Azure Monitor REST API had its limitations, with throttling becoming a bottleneck. To address this challenge and to empower customers with the ability to query metrics at scale, Microsoft Azure introduced the Azure Metrics Data Plane API. We are thrilled to announce that after a successful Public Preview launch in April 2023, the Azure Metrics Data Plane API is now Generally Available. This powerful addition allows customers to query metrics for their Azure resources at a large scale and now it comes with added SDK (Beta) support for .NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Go languages. So, what is Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API? Azure Metrics Data plane API is a new paradigm in Azure monitoring which makes resource insight gathering more efficient with a higher capacity querying experience. It provides the capability to retrieve the metric data for up to 50 resource IDs in the same subscription and region in a single batch API call thus improving query throughput and reducing the risk of throttling. The Azure Metrics Data Plane API comes with several key features and benefits: Higher Querying Limits: This API is designed to handle metric data queries for resources with higher query limits compared to existing Azure Resource Manager APIs. This is particularly advantageous for customers with large subscriptions containing numerous resources. While the REST API allows only 12,000 API calls per hour, the Azure Metrics Data Plane API elevates this limit to a staggering 360,000 API calls per hour. This increase in query throughput ensures a more efficient and streamlined exp
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data plane API We are excited to share Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API is Now Generally Available! Unlock enhanced insights into the monitoring of your Azure resources with our powerful API. Explore its features and elevate your monitoring experience today!
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, SDK and Tools

Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers Resource Health for clusters with integration with Azure Monitor via Signals and Alerts.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories: Features

Dedicated clusters in Azure Monitor logs now support any commitment tier

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

We are pleased to announce that it is now possible to create dedicated clusters in public and sovereign clouds at any commitment tiers, starting at a minimum of 100GB per day. This capability is…
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Pricing & Offerings

New Features for graph-match KQL Operator: Enhanced Pattern Matching and Cycle Control

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

The graph-match operator in Kusto Query Language (KQL) allows you to query your data as a graph and find matches for a specified pattern. The latest update introduces two new features: the cycles parameter and the nonlinear patterns. These features enable you to control how cycles are matched and express more complex and flexible patterns in your graph queries.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Kusto now has three new geospatial functions: geo_polygon_to_h3cells(), geo_angle() and geo_azimuth(). These functions are designed to help you better understand and analyze your geospatial data.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights Dependency Agent support for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor VM Insights now supports Dependency Agent for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs, enabling you to monitor their network connections and processes in the Azure portal.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services

Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources.  We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their  Azure  resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure. We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Advisor, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Compliance, Pricing & Offerings

On 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

n 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Automation, Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

Change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired on 31 August 2024

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

On 31 August 2024, change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Automation, Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

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

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

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.
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Monitor, Categories: Features

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Compliance

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

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 Z

Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, SDK and Tools