Updates for Azure Monitor

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Date Services Event / Source Title / Link
May 21 2025
12:00:10 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Send a Custom Event from the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
May 21 2025
12:00:10 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
VM Network Troubleshooter
May 21 2025
11:45:29 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Managed Prometheus visualizations in Azure Monitor for Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters
May 21 2025
11:45:29 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Managed Prometheus visualizations and enhanced monitoring experience in Azure Monitor for AKS
May 21 2025
11:45:29 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
May 21 2025
11:45:29 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Prometheus community recommended alerts for AKS
May 21 2025
11:45:29 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Log Analytics cross-regional Workspace Replication
May 21 2025
11:45:29 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI query limit increased to 100K records
May 21 2025
11:45:29 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Log Analytics
May 20 2025
16:45:48 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Smarter Troubleshooting in Azure Monitor with AI-powered Investigation
May 20 2025
16:30:08 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2
May 20 2025
16:30:08 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor
May 19 2025
19:45:50 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
May 19 2025
16:12:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor health models
May 19 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor
May 19 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Smarter Troubleshooting in Azure Monitor with AI-powered Investigation
May 19 2025
16:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing the Launch of Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2 in Azure Monitor
May 19 2025
08:48:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Gov. and Mgmt Blog
Introducing Terraform support for Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for Azure landing Zones (ALZ)
May 08 2025
10:07:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Arc Blog
Troubleshoot the Azure Arc Agent in Azure using Azure Monitor & Log Analytics Workspace
May 08 2025
08:43:00 UTC
Notice
Integration on Azure Blog
Log Ingestion to Azure Log Analytics Workspace with Logic App Standard
Apr 24 2025
18:30:13 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Metrics Usage Insights
Apr 24 2025
17:15:08 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Multitenant managed logging in Container insights
Apr 24 2025
16:59:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor Workspace
Apr 21 2025
17:00:21 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Firewall resource specific log tables get Azure Monitor Basic plan support
Apr 16 2025
17:30:50 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
HELM chart-based onboarding workflow for the Azure Monitor Container Insights agent is retiring on October 1, 2025
Apr 10 2025
19:15:16 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Application Insights Auto-Instrumentation for Java and Node Microservices on AKS
Apr 10 2025
18:41:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Architecture Blog
Synthetic Monitoring in Application Insights Using Playwright: A Game-Changer
Apr 04 2025
04:15:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Infrastructure Blog
Implementing Baseline Alerts with Azure Monitor for Mission-Critical Applications
Apr 02 2025
14:30:40 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Application Insights auto-instrumentation for AKS
Mar 27 2025
10:17:00 UTC
Notice
Apps on Azure Blog
Observe Quarkus Apps with Azure Application Insights using OpenTelemetry
Mar 26 2025
18:45:15 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Log Analytics Delete Data API
Mar 20 2025
18:30:50 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
Mar 17 2025
09:36:00 UTC
Notice
Azure AI Services Blog
Monitoring OpenAI Agents SDK with Application Insights
Mar 17 2025
09:36:00 UTC
Notice
Azure AI Services Blog
Monitor OpenAI Agents SDK with Application Insights
Mar 06 2025
18:00:06 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Managed Prometheus Supports Horizontal Pod Autoscaling for Replica Set Pods in AKS
Feb 17 2025
09:56:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Gov. and Mgmt Blog
Log Analytics Agent-based Azure Management Services: Shut down starting 28 February 2025
Feb 04 2025
18:30:37 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode
Feb 03 2025
21:00:38 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Introducing the New AKS Monitoring Experience - Unified Insights at Your Fingertips
Feb 02 2025
18:50:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
Log Analytics Simple Mode is Now Generally Available
Jan 29 2025
13:15:34 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Integrates Performance Diagnostics for Enhanced VM Troubleshooting
Jan 09 2025
16:00:28 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Collect Azure Container Storage metrics with Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus (Public Preview)
Nov 21 2024
18:30:54 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired
Nov 19 2024
22:00:33 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Nov 19 2024
18:17:00 UTC
GA
Azure Observability Blog
General Availability: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor-Container Insights
Nov 19 2024
13:32:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Observability Blog
Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor – Network Security Perimeter Features
Nov 07 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired
Nov 06 2024
08:00:44 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor is retiring
Nov 06 2024
07:45:58 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
App Insights Code Optimizations
Nov 01 2024
00:30:29 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor is retiring
Nov 01 2024
00:30:29 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
App Insights Code Optimizations
Oct 31 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor is retiring
Oct 31 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
App Insights Code Optimizations
Oct 29 2024
18:53:13 UTC
GA
Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET is now generally available
Oct 03 2024
07:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Reminder New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up
Oct 03 2024
07:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Diagnostic Extensions set to Retire in 18 months
Sep 19 2024
16:26:00 UTC
Preview
Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor Metrics Export
Sep 19 2024
07:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Announcing Azure Monitor Metrics Export in public preview
Sep 19 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Announcing Azure Monitor Metrics Export in public preview
Sep 08 2024
20:15:58 UTC
Preview
Azure Monitor Alert Alerts: Log Search Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds (Private Preview)
Sep 06 2024
10:30:16 UTC
Notice
Enhancements to Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts for Azure Landing Zones
Aug 29 2024
07:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor experience (preview) in HDInsight is retiring by February 1, 2025
Aug 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor experience (preview) in HDInsight is retiring by February 1, 2025
Aug 16 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
High Scale mode for Azure Monitor – Container Insights
Aug 08 2024
16:20:00 UTC
GA
Operator/CRD support with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available
Aug 08 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Operator and CRD support with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Jul 25 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
New Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan
Jul 25 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
New capabilities added to Azure Monitor Basic Logs plan
Jul 18 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Retirement:  API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview”
Jul 11 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Advanced Network Observability for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters through Azure Monitor
Jul 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer
Jul 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Windows VMs to enhance VM Troubleshooting
Jul 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Log Enablement Policy Expansion
Jul 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro adds Live Metrics
Jul 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Summary rules in Azure Monitor Log Analytics, for optimal consumption experiences and cost
Jul 05 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics dedicated clusters now supported in Azure portal
Jun 21 2024
10:53:03 UTC
Notice
Announcing Azure Monitoring Agent support in Azure Landing Zones
Jun 18 2024
23:21:12 UTC
GA
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics dedicated clusters now supported in Azure portal
Jun 18 2024
23:21:12 UTC
Preview
Summary rules in Azure Monitor Log Analytics, for optimal consumption experiences and cost
Jun 18 2024
23:21:12 UTC
GA
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro adds Live Metrics
Jun 18 2024
23:21:12 UTC
GA
Azure Monitor Log Enablement Policy Expansion
Jun 05 2024
09:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Announcing Advanced Container Networking Services for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters
Jun 03 2024
08:53:57 UTC
Notice
New and improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights
Jun 03 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Added support for Azure Monitor log search alert rules in Resource Health
Jun 03 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Added support for Azure Monitor log search alert rules in Resource Health
May 30 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode
May 30 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Feature Update: Azure Action Groups
May 29 2024
18:30:27 UTC
Preview
Accelerate your observability journey with Azure Monitor pipeline (preview)
May 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
May 28 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary
May 27 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery
May 22 2024
07:22:55 UTC
Notice
Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery
May 22 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
May 22 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights
May 22 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions
May 21 2024
19:28:19 UTC
Preview
Announcing Kubernetes Metadata & Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor-Container Insights
May 03 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications
Apr 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)
Apr 29 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights
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
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
Preview
Azure Updates
Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics
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
Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027
Mar 26 2024
05:57:57 UTC
Notice
Azure Monitor Availability alerts using Resource Graph Queries
Mar 19 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
Mar 19 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
Mar 18 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions
Mar 14 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping
Feb 19 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Execute Azure Monitor Logs connector on exact time range provided dynamically (preview)
Feb 12 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus
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
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
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
Jan 23 2024
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor VM Insights Dependency Agent support for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs
Jan 22 2024
00:00:00 UTC
Notice
Azure Updates
Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace
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 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 18 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Multi-line Logging Feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
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
General availability: Azure Monitor Application Insights Browser SDK Loader for Node.js
Nov 20 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights
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
18:01:49 UTC
Notice
What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Ignite 2023
Nov 15 2023
00:00:00 UTC
GA
Azure Updates
General Availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard)
Nov 13 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection
Nov 13 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events
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
Oct 30 2023
08:00:00 UTC
Notice
Announcements Blog
Project Flash update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring
Oct 25 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery
Oct 06 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
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
Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 September 2026
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
Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024 - transition to using Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Python Distro
Sep 22 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Retirement
Azure Updates
Azure Monitor for AKS-Engine will not be supported on 14 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
Transition to using standard tests for single-step availability testing in Azure Monitor application insights by 30 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
Notice
Azure Updates
Authenticate Azure Monitor logs connector in Logic App with managed identity
Sep 18 2023
00:00:00 UTC
Preview
Azure Updates
Alerts timeline view