Azure Update Story

Update's chronological storyline in context of the previous updates, related to the referenced services
Date Services Event / Source Title / Link / Storyline
Apr 22 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
Apr 18 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities
Apr 16 2024
13:55:58 UTC
GA
Microsoft Graph activity logs is now generally available
Apr 16 2024
00:43:09 UTC
Notice
Azure SDK Blog
Multi-resource metrics query support in the Azure Monitor Query libraries
Apr 15 2024
21:25:39 UTC
Notice
Introducing Query editor: Empowering Users with PromQL in Azure Monitor Metrics!
Apr 15 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime
Apr 15 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics
Apr 03 2024
17:42:00 UTC
Notice
Use Logic App to monitor Application Gateway Backend Health
Apr 02 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts
Mar 31 2024
16:11:44 UTC
Notice
Four Strategies for Cost-Effective Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics
Mar 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage C++ client libraries will be retired on 29 March 2025
Mar 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027
Mar 28 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
GA: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD
Mar 26 2024
16:56:46 UTC
Preview
Azure Storage Blog
Use Azure Blob Storage on Windows as a file share using Network File System(NFS) 3.0
Mar 26 2024
05:57:57 UTC
Notice
Azure Monitor Availability alerts using Resource Graph Queries
Mar 21 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage
Mar 20 2024
03:39:03 UTC
Notice
Azure Database for MySQL - February 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap
Mar 19 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
Mar 19 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
Mar 18 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions
Mar 18 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
Mar 14 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping
Mar 12 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs
Mar 11 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China
Mar 07 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Feb 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.
Feb 20 2024
08:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Introducing Azure Storage Actions: Serverless storage data management
Feb 20 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Storage Actions — Serverless storage data management
Feb 19 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Execute Azure Monitor Logs connector on exact time range provided dynamically (preview)
Feb 14 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication
Feb 13 2024
18:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcing New Monitoring and Scaling Updates in Azure Firewall
Feb 13 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available
Feb 12 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Canada Central
Feb 12 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus
Feb 07 2024
14:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Storage Blog
Integrity protect your Azure blob storage data with Azure confidential ledger
Feb 07 2024
01:54:44 UTC
Preview
ADX Continuous Export to Delta Table - Preview
Feb 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS
Feb 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East
Feb 01 2024
17:37:03 UTC
GA
Azure Monitor- Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API
Jan 31 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
New major version of durable Functions extension
Jan 31 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API
Jan 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates
Jan 25 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Dedicated clusters in Azure Monitor logs now support any commitment tier
Jan 24 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
New Features for graph-match KQL Operator: Enhanced Pattern Matching and Cycle Control
Jan 23 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor VM Insights Dependency Agent support for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs
Jan 23 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
Jan 22 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace
Jan 18 2024
23:22:04 UTC
Notice
Azure Storage Blog
Prepare for upcoming TLS 1.3 support for Azure Storage
Jan 10 2024
20:59:41 UTC
Notice
Azure Storage Blog
TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support will be removed for new & existing Azure storage accounts starting Nov 2024
Jan 10 2024
10:57:44 UTC
Notice
Azure Storage Blog
Azure Blob Storage Events: A event-driven solution for Blob Storage changes
Jan 10 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch
Jan 08 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions
Jan 08 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in UK West and Poland Central
Jan 04 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Stream Analytics No-code Editor: new features and improvements in Jan 2024
Dec 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired on 31 August 2024
Dec 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
On 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired
Dec 18 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Multi-line Logging Feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Dec 14 2023
15:47:50 UTC
Notice
Azure SDK Blog
Announcing the new (more performant!) Beta release of Azure Storage client libraries for JavaScript
Dec 01 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement
Nov 30 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for ASP.NET Core Applications
Nov 27 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Create and manage Azure Monitor managed Prometheus rules in Azure portal
Nov 20 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights
Nov 20 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks
Nov 20 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General availability: Azure Monitor Application Insights Browser SDK Loader for Node.js
Nov 16 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor
Nov 15 2023
23:32:20 UTC
Notice
Announcing GA: Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Nov 15 2023
20:00:00 UTC
Preview
Kafka Compression on Azure Event Hubs Public Preview
Nov 15 2023
18:01:49 UTC
Notice
What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Ignite 2023
Nov 15 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
GA: Ultra Disk performance updates
Nov 15 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General Availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard)
Nov 14 2023
17:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcing GA: Collect Syslog from your AKS nodes using Container Insights
Nov 13 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events
Nov 13 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection
Nov 08 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Logs archive provides up to 12 years of retention
Nov 06 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 7 additional Azure regions
Nov 06 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Ability to add dynamic values in Alert’s custom fields
Nov 06 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Elastic SAN updates: Snapshots, Security, and Usability
Nov 06 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines
Nov 02 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Nov 01 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
Oct 30 2023
08:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
Oct 30 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Blob Batch operations
Oct 25 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery
Oct 19 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions
Oct 06 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Oct 06 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Oct 02 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)
Sep 29 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Retirement notice: The Azure Storage Android client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Sep 29 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Java client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Sep 29 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024 - transition to using Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Python Distro
Sep 29 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Action required: Migrate to using ARG query for “Get Alert Summary” in Azure Monitor
Sep 29 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 September 2026
Sep 28 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions
Sep 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Go client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Sep 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Retirement notice: The Azure Storage Ruby client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Sep 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Python client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Sep 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Transition to using standard tests for single-step availability testing in Azure Monitor application insights by 30 September 2026
Sep 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Data Collection API Retirement 
Sep 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor for AKS-Engine will not be supported on 14 September 2026
Sep 20 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for Node.js and Python
Sep 18 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Alerts timeline view
Sep 18 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Authenticate Azure Monitor logs connector in Logic App with managed identity
Sep 13 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General availability: Use Azure Key Vault to securely store and retrieve access key when mounting Azure Storage as a local share in App Service
Sep 13 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Higher default value for Azure Functions Event Hubs max batch size
Sep 07 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options
Sep 07 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Aug 31 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent
Aug 10 2023
09:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Efficiently store data with Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier—now generally available
May 16 2023
17:27:01 UTC
GA
Announcing the General Availability of Azure Monitor HCI Insights
May 03 2023
09:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2023
Mar 15 2023
08:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Protect against cyberattacks with the new Azure Firewall Basic
Dec 08 2022
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Storage Mover–A managed migration service for Azure Storage
Nov 10 2022
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
New Project Flash Update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
Oct 20 2022
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Leverage SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage to build a unified data lake
Aug 31 2022
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Elevate your visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now generally available
Jul 18 2022
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview
Feb 11 2022
12:04:32 UTC
Notice
Azure Data Components Network Architecture with secure configurations
Jul 13 2021
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Deliver scalable, cost-effective Disk Storage for Azure VMware Solution
May 26 2021
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
New Azure capabilities to simplify deployment and management
Mar 09 2021
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Scale your critical applications cost-effectively with Azure Disk Storage
Nov 23 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Guest health feature in Azure Monitor for virtual machines
Sep 29 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
New Datadog integration with Azure offers a seamless configuration experience
Jul 16 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements
Jul 15 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions is now in preview
Jun 25 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Introducing Azure Load Balancer insights using Azure Monitor for Networks
Jun 11 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
New features and insights in Azure Monitor
Jun 11 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview
May 04 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Manage and find data with Blob Index for Azure Storage—now in preview
Mar 18 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Unified network monitoring with Connection Monitor now in preview
Mar 16 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor for virtual machines
Feb 05 2020
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Backup Explorer now available in preview
Nov 04 2019
13:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Data Share is now in GA!
Sep 26 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.0
Sep 24 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
12 TB VMs, Expanded SAP partnership on Blockchain, Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
Sep 16 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Announcing user delegation SAS tokens preview for Azure Storage Blobs
Aug 15 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Ultra Disk Storage: Microsoft’s service for your most I/O demanding workloads
Aug 15 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage
Jul 02 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure FXT Edge Filer now generally available
Jun 04 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing self-serve experience for Azure Event Hubs Clusters
Apr 03 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Event-driven Java with Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs
Mar 25 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Premium Block Blob Storage is now generally available
Mar 25 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Larger, more powerful Managed Disks for Azure Virtual Machines
Feb 25 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing Azure Monitor AIOps Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds
Jan 23 2019
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability
Dec 19 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Virtual Network Service Endpoints for serverless messaging and big data
Dec 11 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Monitor for containers now generally available
Nov 07 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka®
Sep 18 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs now generally available
May 23 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Azure AD Authentication for Azure Blobs and Queues now in public preview
May 10 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Enhancements in Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger
Apr 30 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
AzCopy on Linux now generally available
Apr 19 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Backup now supports storage accounts secured with Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks
Apr 03 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Introducing a new way to purchase Azure monitoring services
Mar 27 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Monitor–General availability of multi-dimensional metrics APIs
Mar 27 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Announcements Blog
Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview
Mar 21 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
The next generation of Azure Alerts has arrived
Mar 07 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing Storage Service Encryption with customer managed keys general availability
Feb 01 2018
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage now generally available
Mar 31 2017
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing Azure Advisor, Monitor, and resource health general availability
Mar 31 2017
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor
Feb 13 2017
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Azure Application Insights JavaScript SDK: reliability and performance improvements