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2025 (12)

November (8)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Azure Updates

2025-11-20

Azure Monitor is available in public preview for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters running OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift. It provides a complete set of monitoring services to track the health and performance of Kubernetes infrastructure layers and the applications that depend on them.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Recommended alerts for Azure Monitor Workspace

Azure Updates

2025-11-19

Azure Monitor is in public preview with one-click enablement of recommended alerts in the Azure portal for Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus customers. These alerts monitor Azure Monitor Workspace ingestion limits to help prevent metric ingestion issues.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Advanced sampling and richer data collection in Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure has made generally available enhanced sampling and richer data collection capabilities in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro (which powers Azure Monitor Application Insights). The release introduces new sampling options including rate-limited sampling and trace-based log sampling to give teams finer control over telemetry volume and correlation.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor unified onboarding experience for AKS and VMs

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Monitor now provides a unified, single-click onboarding experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs), now generally available. The new experience simplifies setup by automatically deploying the latest Azure Monitor capabilities.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: OpenTelemetry visualizations and enhanced monitoring experience in Azure Monitor for Azure VMs and Arc Servers

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Monitor now offers OpenTelemetry-based visualizations in public preview and an enhanced, unified monitoring experience that consolidates key monitoring capabilities into a single view for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Monitor now supports dynamic thresholding for Log search alerts in public preview, automatically calculating appropriate alert thresholds so you don't have to set them manually.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Monitor is in public preview for query-based metric alerts that support all metric types — platform, Prometheus, and custom — and add query capabilities using PromQL to provide broader and more powerful monitoring coverage.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing SDK Stats to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure has announced a public preview of "SDK Stats" for the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro to give customers internal visibility into the Application Insights data collection pipeline, helping diagnose telemetry collection and delivery issues.

October (2)

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

Azure Updates

2025-10-07

Azure will retire legacy authentication for Azure Monitor - Container Insights on September 30, 2026; customers should migrate to Managed Identity authentication.

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

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance will be retired on September 30, 2026; customers will no longer be able to access the service after that date. Microsoft recommends transitioning to Operations Manager on-premises to continue monitoring on-premises workloads and consulting the retirement documentation for details.

September (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Visualize New Azure Resource Manager Metrics through Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2025-09-29

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is generally available with enhanced integration into Azure Monitor Metrics, enabling subscription-level visualization of new ARM metrics for deeper visibility and more granular monitoring of Resource Manager operations.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: High Scale mode for Azure Monitor – Container Insights

Azure Updates

2025-09-19

Azure announced general availability of High scale mode for Container Insights, Azure Monitor’s log-collection solution for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The new mode is designed to provide higher log collection throughput for customers with large or high-throughput clusters.