Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer now supports Dark Mode

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:00:27 Z

If you spend time in the Azure Portal’s using Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer, you know it’s a “lots of screens, lots of tabs, lots of work happening” kind of place. So I’m excited to share a small upgrade that makes a big difference: Dark Mode is now supported in Cosmos DB Data Explorer. It […] The post Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer now supports Dark Mode appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories:

openCypher support for KQL graph semantics

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:00:43 Z

Announcing openCypher support for KQL graph semantics, bringing the widely adopted open-source graph query language to your graph data. This update allows you to run openCypher queries on any Fabric Eventhouse or Azure Data Explorer, making it easier to w
Update Type: Preview, Services: Data Explorer, Categories:

labels() function in KQL graph semantics

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:00:43 Z

The labels() function in KQL graph semantics is now generally available. This function enables you to retrieve, filter, and project label information for nodes and edges in your graph queries, making it easier to work with categorized graph data.The label
Update Type: GA, Services: Data Explorer, Categories:

Billing Announcement: Azure Data Explorer Storage Adjustment (November 2025)

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:52:00 Z

It was recently discovered that some Azure Data Explorer clusters were undercharging for the amount of data being stored. This was corrected on November 3 rd which may result in an increase in the A...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Data Explorer, Categories:

Graph Query Language (GQL) in KQL graph semantics

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:00:02 Z

We’re adding Graph Query Language (GQL) support to KQL graph semantics, aligned with the ISO standard. This update allows you to run GQL queries on any Fabric Eventhouse or Azure Data Explorer, making it easier to work with graph data using an industry-st
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Persistent Graph Semantics

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:00:57 Z

Azure Data Explorer now offers Persistent Graphs in public preview, enabling durable graph data structures that persist beyond individual query executions for enterprise-scale relationship analysis. Unlike transient Graphs which exist only in memory durin
Update Type: Preview, Services: Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Introducing Region Selection in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer for NoSQL Accounts

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:56:09 Z

You asked—we delivered! Users can now manually select the region Data Explorer sends requests to! When you use Entra Authentication with NoSQL accounts, you can now enable the Region Selection option in settings. This new capability gives you precise control over where your requests are sent, helping you test, troubleshoot, and optimize performance by targeting […] The post Introducing Region Selection in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer for NoSQL Accounts appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories:

New Eventstream sources: MQTT, Solace PubSub+, Azure Data Explorer, Weather & Azure Event Grid

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:00:00 Z

Eventstream is a data streaming service in Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, enables users to ingest, transform, and route real-time data streams from multiple sources into Fabric. We’re expanding Evenstream’s capabilities, and making real-time data integration even more seamless, by introducing five new source connectors and additional sample data streams. With these new connectors, you can easily … Continue reading “New Eventstream sources: MQTT, Solace PubSub+, Azure Data Explorer, Weather & Azure Event Grid ”
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Grid, Data Explorer, Categories: Services

Azure Synapse Data Explorer (Preview) to Be Retired on October 7, 2025

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:00:03 Z

Synapse Data Explorer (Preview) will be retired on October 7, 2025. The next generation of Synapse Data Explorer offering is evolving to become Eventhouse in Real-Time Intelligence, part of Microsoft Fabric. Eventhouse offers the same powerful features an
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Data Explorer, Categories: Retirements

Synapse Data Explorer (SDX) to Eventhouse Migration Capability (Preview)

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:16:00 Z

Update Type: Preview, Services: Data Explorer, Categories:

Star pattern and default node identifier in Kusto

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:00:49 Z

We are announcing the general availability of two powerful new features in Kusto Graph Semantics. The star pattern allows users to express nonlinear patterns using comma-delimited sequences, making it particularly useful for describing connections where
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

New graph operators in Kusto

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:00:49 Z

We are excited to announce the release of two powerful new graph operators in Kusto: graph-shortest-path and graph-mark-components. The graph-shortest-paths operator is designed to streamline the process of finding the shortest paths between nodes in a gr
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Enhanced error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:28 Z

You can now debug queries more efficiently with the improved error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer. This release addresses common challenges, such as syntax errors, invalid operators, parameters, or typos that previously resulted in generic, t
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Enhanced error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 Z

Debug queries more efficiently with the improved error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer.
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer custom column selector and filter history

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 Z

Manage your data more easily using the new custom column selector and filter history features in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer. You can customize your data views by selecting specific columns that matter most to you, streamlining your workflow. Additional
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer custom column selector and filter history

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z

Easily customize Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer views using new custom column selector and filter history.
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Deprecation of Virtual Network Injection for Azure Data Explorer

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

We are announcing the deprecation of the Virtual Network Injection feature for Azure Data Explorer. This feature allowed customers to inject their Azure Data Explorer cluster into their own virtual network and control the network traffic. However, due to
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Network, Data Explorer, Categories: Features, Retirements

Retirement: Deprecation of Virtual Network Injection for Azure Data Explorer

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

The Virtual Network Injection feature for Azure Data Explorer is being deprecated due to its limitations and challenges. Customers are advised to migrate to a private endpoint-based network security architecture by February 1, 2025, to avoid any disruption
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Network, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Announcing the Event Hubs Data Explorer: a handy tool for getting started and debugging

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:18:40 Z

We are excited to announce the launch of the new Event Hubs Data Explorer feature in the Azure portal! This user-friendly yet highly powerful tool allows developers to generate and retrieve event data from an Event Hubs topic, all within the ease of the Azure portal. Seamless Onboarding The Data Explorer is a vital tool for new Event Hubs developers, offering an all-encompassing view of event data for quick onboarding. It lets you test event producers and consumers easily, ensuring your systems are correctly configured. Developers have the option to either create custom workloads or utilize predefined datasets to produce mock data for streamlined testing. Whether you're experimenting with new data flows or validating your setup, the Data Explorer makes the process straightforward. Enhanced Debugging If you're using Event Hubs, the Data Explorer is invaluable for debugging and improving your solutions. It allows you to inspect data at specific timestamps or offsets, helping developers quickly find and fix anomalies. This tool is great for identifying issues and optimizing event processing workflows to keep your systems running smoothly. Your Gateway to Advanced Event Data Insights The Event Hubs Data Explorer is designed to make your experience with Event Hubs more intuitive and productive. By providing a unified interface for producing and consuming event data, it empowers you to gain deeper insights and maintain control over your event-driven architectures. We are confident that this new feature will enhance your ability to work with Event Hubs, whether you are just getting started or optimizing existing deployments. For a detailed guide on using the Event Hubs Data Explorer, please refer to our comprehensive how-to documentation. We are excited to see how you leverage the Event Hubs Data Explorer to drive innovation and efficiency in your projects. As always, we welcome your feedback and look forward to continuously improving our tools to better serve y
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Data Explorer, Categories:

Generally Available: Navigate your data more easily in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 Z

Discover enhanced navigation and data management with the latest Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer update.
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

What’s New in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer: A Better Way to Navigate Your Data

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:00:06 Z

As a developer, you may have to work on various projects that involve storing and querying data from different regions and devices. Whether you are building a web application, a mobile app, a gaming platform, or an IoT solution, you want a database that can handle the complexity and scale of your data without compromising on performance and availability. The post What’s New in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer: A Better Way to Navigate Your Data appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Regions & Datacenters

General Availability: Multi-select delete in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Delete multiple items at once now in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer.
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Generally Available: Update records in a Kusto Database

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

The .update command is now Generally Available (GA)
Update Type: GA, Services: Data Explorer, 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

Generally Available: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:47:53 Z

Status: Now Available Azure Monitor Alerts allow you to monitor your Azure and application telemetry to quickly identify issues affecting your service. More specifically, Azure Monitor log alert rules allow you to set periodic queries on your log telemetry to identify potential issues and get notifications or trigger actions. Until now, log alert rules have supported running queries on Log Analytics and Application Insights data. 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. In addition, as part of this newly added support, log alert rules now support managed identities for Azure resources – allowing you to see and control the exact permissions of your log alert rule. Learn More: Create a new log alert rule accessing ADX Write a query accessing ADX data from a Log Analytics using the adx pattern Managed identities for Azure resources Products: Azure Alerts ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Data Explorer, Categories: Services

We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024 – transition to Azure Data Explorer

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

We’ll retire Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Time Series Insights, Data Explorer, Categories: Retirements

Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto

Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

The Graph Semantics extension to Kusto is now generally available. Users are encouraged to integrate this tool into their production workflows to enhance understanding of complex datasets and uncover hidden patterns.
Update Type: GA, Services: Synapse Analytics, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts

Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys.
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.
Update Type: Preview, Services: SQL Database, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Announcing NBCROW Compression in Kusto's TDS Implementation

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

A new feature that reduces the data transfer for MSSQL queries on Kusto.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Synapse Analytics, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Update records in a Kusto Database (public preview)

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

The new .update command allows you to update records (rows) in a Kusto Database (either in Azure Data Explorer or in Fabric KQL Database). This is a new tool to help you build great data pipeline!
Update Type: Preview, Services: Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

The migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints in generally available now. The process is simple and can be done using the Azure portal, the ARM template, or any code which uses the ADX SDK.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Network, Data Explorer, Categories: Features, Security

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

Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink (Public Preview)
Update Type: Preview, Services: HDInsight, Kubernetes Service, Data Explorer, Categories: Features, Open Source, SDK and Tools

Migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

If you are using VNet injection to secure your Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster, you may face some challenges such as complexity, scalability, and public IP dependency. We recommend that you switch to Azure Private Endpoints, which allow you to connect to your cluster privately within your VNet. We have released a preview feature that lets you migrate your VNet injected ADX cluster to Private Endpoints easily and quickly.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Network, Data Explorer, Private Link, Categories: Features, Security

Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 Z

Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk (Public Preview)
Update Type: Preview, Services: Data Explorer, Categories: Features, Open Source, SDK and Tools

New in Kusto: `.show databases entities` command for viewing tables, functions, and more

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

View the entities of all accessible cluster databases with the new `.show databases entities` command for Kusto, and customize the output with various options.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Introducing Graph Semantics in Kusto, a new way to contextualize time series data

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Analyze networks, connected assets and more with Kusto's graph semantics extension to the Kusto Query Language (KQL). Find out how to contextualize your time series data in KQL, and how to leverage time-aware graphs.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Data Explorer, Categories: Features

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0700

Azure Data Explorer, a component of Azure Synapse Analytics, is a highly scalable analytics service optimized for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It provides users with an interactive query experience that unlocks insights from the ocean of ever-growing log and telemetry data. It is the perfect service to analyze high volumes of fresh and historical data in the cloud by using SQL or the Kusto Query Language (KQL), a powerful and user-friendly query language. The GigaOm report shows that Azure Data Explorer provides superior performance at a significantly lower cost than both Snowflake and Google BigQuery.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Synapse Analytics, Data Explorer, Categories:

Share IoT and Log data in real time using Azure Data Share and Azure Data Explorer

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:32:35 Z

In today's digital world, more and more data is generated from devices and software deployed at home and work. This could be data collected from applications, websites, IoT devices and equipment. Often, this data needs to be shared and enriched with 3rd party data in real-time to derive insights. Traditionally, data is shared by generating a data feed made available via file share, FTP, etc. This process requires organizations to invest in maintaining the data pipelines and introduces latency into the system. Azure Data Explorer is a fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of data streamed from applications and devices. You can use Azure Data Explorer to collect, store, and analyze diverse data on the fly to quickly identify patterns, anomalies and trends. Azure Data Share enables easy and secure data sharing within or cross organizations. You can share data code-free while maintain full visibility into your data sharing relationships including what data is shared and who it is shared with. With the integration between Azure Data Explorer and Azure Data Share, data can be easily and securely shared with partners, service providers or customers for near-real-time collaboration. Here is an example of how organizations with manufacturing plants are using Azure Data Explorer and Azure Data Share for near-real-time analytics. Data is streamed from IoT Hub into Azure Data Explorer cluster and stored in databases. It is then shared through Azure Data Share to the service provider’s Azure Data Explorer cluster for analysis and dashboarding. How data sharing works Azure Data Share enables sharing of databases in-place from Azure Data Explorer clusters. Data provider can create a share by specifying the databases they want to share, who to share with and terms of use. The same data can be shared with multiple data consumers. Azure Data Share service sends an email invitation to each data consumer, who can then accept the invitation an
Update Type: Announcement, Services: IoT Hub, Data Explorer, Data Share, Categories: Services

Introducing Azure Data Explorer

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0700

Today at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando we announced the preview of Azure Data Explorer in 41 regions - a lightning fast service optimized for data exploration. The service helps organizations quickly discover insights from petabytes of structured and unstructured data.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Data Explorer, Categories: