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2025 (12)

November (6)

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: [Launched] Generally Available: DNS flow trace logs for Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Firewall now generally available: DNS flow trace logs provide deep, end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution paths, delivering richer telemetry to help troubleshoot, validate, and secure DNS.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Object Replication Metrics

Azure Updates

2025-11-06

Azure Blob Storage object replication metrics for pending operations and pending bytes are now generally available in all regions, enabling customers to monitor replication status and act on delays.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Monitor end-to-end ExpressRoute connectivity with Connection Monitor

Azure Updates

2025-11-05

Azure has made Connection Monitor integration generally available for ExpressRoute, allowing end-to-end connectivity monitoring to be enabled directly when creating or updating ExpressRoute connections.

October (3)

aks: Release 2025-10-12

Release notes from AKS

2025-10-17

AKS release 2025-10-12 announces OS retirements and upgrades, new billing for AKS Automatic, LTS patch releases, feature additions (GPU skip drivers, Envoy filters for Istio, VPA mode), behavioral changes to autoscaling and node provisioning, and multiple component and image updates across Azure Linux and Ubuntu node images and CSI/CNI/monitoring components.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Observed capacity metric in Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric (Generally Available). The metric reports the number of capacity units actively utilized over time to help administrators understand how their firewalls are scaling in practice.

github: GitHub Enterprise Server 3.18 is now generally available

GitHub

2025-10-14

GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.18 is now generally available. The release focuses on improving deployment efficiency, monitoring, code security, and policy management, and introduces the ability for enterprise administrators to define custom properties.

September (3)

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: Retirement: The Insights blade in AKS is now called Monitor

Azure Updates

2025-09-25

The Insights blade in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has been renamed to Monitor and moved from the Monitoring section to the top-level navigation; monitoring data and features remain unchanged.

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.