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2026 49

  1. Scale Data Collection Endpoint private connectivity with IP Endpoint Compression - Preview
  2. General Availability: Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor
  3. General Availability: Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor workspace
  4. Action required: PromQL regex matching in Azure Monitor Workspace is becoming spec-compliant
  5. Keep the evidence: Low-cost logs with Azure Copilot Observability Agent (Generally Available)
  6. From Detection to Action: Extending Azure Monitor Issues with Action Groups
  7. Keep Azure Monitor issues and ServiceNow ITOM incidents in sync
  8. Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs expands with Azure tables support, plan switching, and sovereign clouds
  9. Reliability Starter Kit: SLIs, Health models, and SRE Agent
  10. Governing Log Analytics retention at scale
  11. Share Azure Monitor Logs to Microsoft Fabric (preview)
  12. Take command of your Microsoft Foundry AI agents with the Azure Copilot Observability Agent
  13. Understanding billing for the Azure Copilot Observability Agent
  14. Public Preview: Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor
  15. Azure Monitor Observability Agent goes autonomous (preview)
  16. Export historical data from Log Analytics workspace with Export Job (preview)
  17. Find anomalies in Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics with Dynamic Thresholds (Preview)
  18. Azure Copilot Observability Agent is generally available, with autonomous operations in preview
  19. Accelerating AKS troubleshooting with the Azure Copilot Observability Agent
  20. Anomaly detection made easy with Dynamic thresholds for Log search alerts
  21. General Availability: Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor
  22. Inside the Observability Agent: How Deep Investigations and Reasoning Work
  23. Modern VM monitoring, powered by OpenTelemetry
  24. Azure Monitor SLIs now Generally Available
  25. Azure Monitor Metrics Export Generally Available
  26. PUBLIC PREVIEW - Azure Monitor - Collect Azure Resource Platform Logs at Scale with DCRs
  27. Connect Metrics to Traces with Exemplars in Azure Monitor
  28. Azure Monitor Health Model (Preview): What's New!
  29. Is 94% of your syslog just noise? Now you can filter it out before ingestion.
  30. When Telemetry Volume Gets Real: Azure Monitor pipeline’s Performance Story!
  31. New Capabilities to Observe Agents in Azure Monitor
  32. Is Your Monitoring Actually Working? What's New in Monitoring Coverage
  33. What’s new in Observability at Build 2026
  34. Azure Monitor Copilot Observability Agent: What’s new at Build
  35. Any source. Any destination. Ready for AI-era.
  36. Monitor AI coding agents with OpenTelemetry in Azure Monitor
  37. Direct OpenTelemetry ingestion into Azure Monitor is now generally available
  38. The Azure Copilot Observability Agent Chat - Stop Writing Queries, Start Asking Questions.
  39. Public Preview Update: Azure Copilot Observability Agent
  40. Azure Monitor Service Level Indicators (SLI)
  41. Ingest at Scale, Securely — Azure Monitor pipeline Is Now Generally Available
  42. Troubleshoot with OpenTelemetry in Azure Monitor - Public Preview
  43. Copy dashboards from Dashboards with Grafana to Azure Managed Grafana
  44. Introducing Azure Managed Grafana MCP: The Managed Telemetry Gateway for AI Agents
  45. Introducing Azure Managed Grafana 12
  46. Announcing new public preview capabilities in Azure Monitor pipeline
  47. Public Preview: Azure Monitor pipeline transformations
  48. Accelerating SCOM to Azure Monitor Migrations with Automated Analysis and ARM Template Generation
  49. Announcing Application Insights SDK 3.x for .NET

2025 37

  1. Observability for the Age of Generative AI
  2. Announcing public preview of query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor
  3. Generally Available - Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) Scale Limits Increased by 10x!
  4. General Availability: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs
  5. Announcing General Availability: Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
  6. Simplify Application Monitoring for AKS with Azure Monitor (Public Preview)
  7. Troubleshoot with OTLP signals in Azure Monitor (Limited Public Preview)
  8. Azure Copilot observability agent: Intelligent Investigations Across Your Azure Stack
  9. Advancing Full-Stack Observability with Azure Monitor at Ignite 2025
  10. Introducing Monitoring Coverage: Assess and Improve Your Monitoring Posture at Scale
  11. PUBLIC PREVIEW: Announcing public preview of dynamic thresholds for log search alerts
  12. Public Preview: Azure Monitor Integration with Fabric Real Time Intelligence Eventhouse
  13. Comprehensive VM Monitoring with OpenTelemetry performance counters
  14. Introducing the enhanced query diagnostics in Azure Log Analytics
  15. Announcing resource-scope query for Azure Monitor Workspaces
  16. Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards
  17. Generally Available - High scale mode in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
  18. Automate Your Log Analytics Workflows with AI and Logic Apps
  19. General Availability of Azure Monitor Network Security Perimeter Features
  20. General Availability of Auxiliary Logs and Reduced Pricing
  21. Introducing the Improved Search Job Experience in Azure Monitor Log Analytics
  22. Using Azure API Management as a proxy for Application Insights Telemetry
  23. Public Preview: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs
  24. What’s new in Observability at Build 2025
  25. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor health models
  26. Enhance your Azure visualizations using Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
  27. Public Preview: Simple Log Alerts in Azure Monitor
  28. GA: Managed Prometheus visualizations in Azure Monitor for AKS — unified insights at your fingertips
  29. Public Preview: Smarter Troubleshooting in Azure Monitor with AI-powered Investigation
  30. Announcing the Launch of Customizable Email Subjects for Log Search Alerts V2 in Azure Monitor
  31. Help Shape the Future of Log Analytics: Your Feedback Matters
  32. Public Preview: Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor Workspace
  33. Azure Monitor Application Insights Auto-Instrumentation for Java and Node Microservices on AKS
  34. Azure Monitor Private Link Scope (AMPLS) Scale Limits Increased by 10x!
  35. Azure Monitor Network Security Perimeter - Features available in 56 Public Cloud Regions
  36. Ingestion of Managed Prometheus metrics from a private AKS cluster using private link
  37. Log Analytics Simple Mode is Now Generally Available

2024 30

  1. General Availability: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor-Container Insights
  2. What’s new in Observability and Resiliency @ Ignite 2024
  3. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor – Network Security Perimeter Features
  4. Public Preview: The New AKS Monitoring Experience
  5. Explore the latest features for Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch) - An Azure Native ISV Service
  6. Azure Managed Grafana Brings Grafana 11 and More
  7. Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET is now generally available
  8. Automating Azure Monitor VM Insights Deployment with Python and Azure Functions
  9. Help Shape the Future of Azure Monitor Alerts: Your Feedback Matters!
  10. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor Metrics Export
  11. High Scale log collection in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
  12. Azure Monitor Alert Alerts: Log Search Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds (Private Preview)
  13. Operator/CRD support with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available
  14. Monitoring GPU Metrics in AKS with Azure Managed Prometheus, DCGM Exporter and Managed Grafana
  15. Azure Monitor Logs Next Evolution: Multi-tier logging
  16. Advanced Network Observability for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters through Azure Monitor
  17. Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode
  18. Public Preview: Log Analytics Workspace Replication
  19. Announcing Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata & Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor-Container Insights
  20. What's new in observability @ Build 2024
  21. New Code Optimizations features - based on your feedback
  22. Azure Monitor cost optimization using Azure Advisor
  23. Retrieving more than 30,000 records from Log Analytics Workspace using Azure Data Explorer
  24. Accelerate your observability journey with Azure Monitor pipeline (preview)
  25. Optimizing Cost using the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
  26. Introducing Query editor: Empowering Users with PromQL in Azure Monitor Metrics!
  27. Observability at scale – Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API
  28. Azure Monitor- Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API
  29. How To Monitor Your Multi-Tenant Solution on Azure With Azure Monitor
  30. Monitoring ExpressRoute: A Workbook Solution

2023 30

  1. Identify and solve performance issues faster with App Insights Code Optimizations
  2. Making Azure the Best Place to Observe Your Apps with OpenTelemetry
  3. Announcing GA: Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
  4. What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Ignite 2023
  5. Azure Managed Grafana Adds New SKU and Features
  6. Announcing GA: Collect Syslog from your AKS nodes using Container Insights
  7. Announcement: Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance is now Generally Available!
  8. Running natural language queries against Log analytics using Semantic function
  9. Explore the new capabilities with Datadog—An Azure Native ISV Service
  10. Query Azure Resource Graph from Azure Monitor
  11. Azure Monitor cost optimization using Azure Advisor
  12. Integrate KEDA with your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
  13. Azure Monitor Logs - Change Tab Name
  14. Monitor AKS cluster security using Syslog and Microsoft Sentinel
  15. How to set up and use Code Optimizations
  16. Announcing the Public Preview: Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs into Azure Monitor Logs
  17. Machine learning in Azure Monitor Logs
  18. General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
  19. What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Build 2023
  20. Comprehensive network observability for AKS through Azure Monitor
  21. Announcing the Public Preview of Code Optimizations
  22. Container Insights (Linux) is migrating its container image to CBL-Mariner 2.0
  23. Azure Policy Violation Alert using Logic apps
  24. Multi Line logging Azure Announcement (Preview Feature)
  25. Application Insights Java Profiler April 2023 - Public Preview Update
  26. Azure Monitor- Announcing Public Preview of Azure Metrics Data plane API
  27. Announcing preview: Collect Syslog from your AKS nodes using Container Insights
  28. Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in North Europe
  29. Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in Canada Central, France Central and Japan East
  30. Making it easier to manage your workspace with a clearer Log Analytics Workspace menu

2022 28

  1. Announcement: Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance Public Preview is here!
  2. Announcing GA of revamped Custom Logs features
  3. Azure Monitor Logs search job experience
  4. General Availability: Predictive Autoscaling for VMSS
  5. What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Ignite 2022
  6. General availability: Get more value from your logs with Azure Monitor advanced features
  7. Introducing Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
  8. Announcing Preview: Java Profiler for Azure Monitor Application Insights
  9. Introducing a unified Azure Monitor cloud native offering for Kubernetes monitoring
  10. How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.4 Storage/Disk
  11. Visualizing data in realtime with Azure Managed Grafana
  12. Change Analysis GA announcement
  13. How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional/non-functional requirements-No.3 Compute/Inside OS
  14. Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent for better security, reliability and ease of management
  15. How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.2 Compute
  16. How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional and non-functional requirements - No.1 overview
  17. Announcing preview: Enable Azure Monitor VM insights using Azure Monitor agent
  18. Auto-update of Azure Log Analytics agent and Diagnostics Extension for Linux extension available
  19. Improving the tools for monitoring Log Analytics workspace health
  20. Introducing Log Analytics Find In Table queries
  21. What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Build 2022
  22. Simplified Log Analytics Table Management
  23. Activity Logs Insights (Preview)
  24. Enabling Full-stack Observability with Azure Monitor and Grafana
  25. Log Analytics results upgrade
  26. Announcing the limited preview of Optimization Insights
  27. Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export is generally available!
  28. The next evolution of Azure Monitor Logs

2021 42

  1. Log Analytics experience improvements December 2021
  2. Azure Monitor Private Links now supports up to 300 workspaces and 1000 components
  3. What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Ignite 2021
  4. Log Analytics Legacy Queries experience update
  5. Detecting and updating Agents using the OMI vulnerability
  6. OpenTelemetry + Azure Monitor
  7. How to analyze data exported from Log Analytics data using Synapse
  8. Log Analytics Legacy Queries save/edit experience upgrade
  9. Log Analytics Legacy Queries now available in the new Query UI
  10. Azure Monitor Private Links introduces new modes and enforces Network Isolation strictly
  11. Introducing the Standard Ping Test
  12. Log Analytics - Open In Excel
  13. A powerful agent for Azure Monitor and a simpler world of data collection; now generally available!
  14. Log Analytics workspace overview status property is live.
  15. New pricing changes to Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Azure Sentinel to help you save costs
  16. Application Insights Azue DevOps Release Annotations Implementation Update
  17. Announcing Log Analytics Workspace Insights (preview)
  18. Log Analytics Query packs
  19. What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Build 2021
  20. Work Item Integration v2 is now GA
  21. Private Testing Guidance for Availability in Application Insights
  22. Cloud Native Monitoring for Applications on Microsoft Azure
  23. Log Analytics pinned parts now works with Azure Dashboard filters
  24. Log Analytics UI - New experience for Custom Logs
  25. Azure Monitor Private Link now support solution packs' storage access
  26. Integration with ITSM systems – ITSM vs. Logic App?
  27. Log Analytics - Functions upgraded
  28. Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021 now available
  29. Convert your favorite App Insights Workbooks
  30. Azure Workbooks - New Experience for Gallery
  31. Azure Workbooks - Set it to Auto-Refresh
  32. Monitor your hybrid network with Network insights
  33. Azure Workbooks - Save as PDF (Print)
  34. Enhanced Dashboard experiences for Azure Monitor Log Analytics
  35. Updated: Work Item Integration
  36. Easily calculate SLA, downtime, and outages of your App Insights Availability Webtests
  37. Make your voice heard! Help us shape the future of Log Analytics experiences
  38. View and query Log Analytics with Kibana and Azure Data Explorer
  39. Log Analytics Multi Scope Pin to Dashboards
  40. Log Analytics UI - New experience for Agents Configuration
  41. Linking storage accounts to your Workspace made easy with new Azure Portal UX
  42. Why did my availability test fail while my website is still available?

2020 24

  1. Log Analytics UI - Visualization control menu upgraded
  2. Now available: Azure Storage logs
  3. Log Analytics table pane - only show tables with data
  4. Log Analytics scopes explained
  5. Cross Service Query - Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer
  6. Announcing New ServiceNow Event Management and Azure Monitor Integration
  7. Secure Export – BMC Helix Integration
  8. Deep linking from Grafana panels to the Log Analytics query editor in Azure Portal
  9. What's new with Azure Monitor plugin for Grafana
  10. What's new in the Azure Monitor community repo
  11. Double click a table in Log Analytics table side bar to run a preview query
  12. Log Analytics visualizations - share your thoughts with us! (survey)
  13. Log Analytics – data export (preview)
  14. Log Analytics - Query Dialog gets a new search option
  15. Log Analytics - search query history
  16. Log Analytics - Time picker enhancements
  17. What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Ignite 2020
  18. Monitoring queries being executed in your Azure Log Analytics Workspaces
  19. Log Analytics - share your insights with the world
  20. Azure Monitor Logs community links update
  21. Log Analytics new System Center configuration pane
  22. Line numbers in Log Analytics query editor
  23. Join Azure Monitor Monthly Connections on July 30 for live Q&A
  24. Join Azure Monitor 'Monthly Connections' on June 30 for live Q&A