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2026 (12)

May (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana in Public, Government (Fairfax) and China

Azure Updates

2026-05-12

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana are now generally available in Azure Public, Government (Fairfax), and China. The feature brings Grafana-based dashboard creation, editing, and sharing into the Azure Portal.

April (7)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Azure Updates

2026-04-23

Azure Monitor is now generally available for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters running OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift. It extends monitoring for health and performance across Kubernetes infrastructure and dependent applications.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Logical replication slot sync Status metric for Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Azure Updates

2026-04-22

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now includes a new Azure Monitor metric, logical_replication_slot_sync_status, in public preview. It reports the synchronization status of logical replication slots.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor pipeline

Azure Updates

2026-04-21

Azure Monitor pipeline is now generally available. It provides a centralized control point for telemetry ingestion and transformation for secure, high-throughput, enterprise-scale scenarios.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Monitor supports native OTLP ingestion using the Azure Monitor Agent

Azure Updates

2026-04-20

Azure Monitor now has public preview support for native OTLP ingestion through the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA). OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications can send telemetry directly to AMA, which exports it to Azure Monitor.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Monitor AKS applications with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2026-04-13

Azure Monitor now supports monitoring applications running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with OpenTelemetry. The preview includes autoinstrumentation to deploy the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry distribution to workloads.

azure: Retirement: Azure Managed Grafana Essential SKU will retire on March 30, 2027

Azure Updates

2026-04-13

Azure Managed Grafana Essential SKU will retire on March 30, 2027. Customers are advised to move to Azure Managed Grafana Standard SKU or Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana before that date to avoid service disruption.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Observability in AKS Namespace and Workload Views

Azure Updates

2026-04-08

AKS Namespace and Workload views now include observability data from Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus. This adds cluster and workload health, troubleshooting, and resource utilization details directly in those views.

March (4)

azure: Retirement: Deprecation of sidecar for remote-write for Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Azure Updates

2026-03-30

Azure Monitor will deprecate the sidecar used for remote-write of Prometheus metrics to Azure Monitor Workspace on March 31, 2027. Microsoft recommends moving to a self-hosted configuration and notes the change is intended to improve reliability and reduce complexity.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: AKS managed GPU metrics in Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

AKS public preview adds managed GPU metrics for NVIDIA GPU-enabled node pools. The metrics are exposed automatically into managed Prometheus, giving teams GPU performance and utilization visibility alongside Kubernetes metrics.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor Prometheus community recommended alerts for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure Monitor now lets you enable Prometheus recommended alerts with one click in the Azure Portal for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters. The alerts are based on enhanced Prometheus community rules and expand monitoring coverage for cluster scenarios.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Ingest OTLP data into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure Monitor now has public preview support for native OTLP ingestion. You can send telemetry from OpenTelemetry-instrumented apps and platforms directly to Azure Monitor using the OpenTelemetry Collector.