Azure Monitor

Generally Available: Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan in Azure Government and China regions

The Auxiliary table plan in Azure Monitor Logs is a cost-effective option for ingesting and retaining high-volume, verbose logs used for compliance and auditing. Auxiliary Logs is now generally available in the sovereign clouds: Azure Government (Fairfax) and China.

Generally Available: Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan support for Azure tables and plan switching

The Auxiliary table plan in Azure Monitor Logs gives you a cost-effective way to ingest and retain high-volume, verbose logs that you keep for compliance and auditing but rarely query. Two highly requested capabilities are now generally available.

Generally Available: Azure Copilot Observability Agent supports Basic and Auxiliary table plans

Azure Copilot Observability Agent, an AI-powered operational companion in Azure Monitor, is now covering Log Analytics data in Basic and Auxiliary table plans during interactive analysis and deep investigations.

Generally Available: Control plane metrics collection for AKS with Managed Prometheus

Control plane metrics collection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), powered by Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus, is now generally available.

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs mirroring into Microsoft Fabric

This capability shares telemetry from Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspaces into Microsoft Fabric, making observability data available in OneLake as Delta Parquet, the open format, without duplication and with near real-time availability.

Public Preview: Protect sensitive generative AI telemetry in Application Insights and Microsoft Foundry

Azure Monitor Application Insights now stores generative AI content in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics), making it possible to apply newly available access controls to sensitive AI telemetry.

Public Preview: Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor

Starting July 15, 2026, advanced platform metrics are available in Public Preview. This update provides enhanced visibility into platform performance, resource health, and operational trends across supported Azure services.

Public Preview: Export historical data from Log Analytics workspace with Export jobs

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Generally Available: Log Analytics Summary Rules experience

A new Azure portal experience for Summary Rules in Log Analytics is now available.

Public Preview: Ingestion Volume Change dashboard in Metrics Usage Insights

Metrics Usage Insights now includes an Ingestion Volume Change dashboard to help you compare ingestion volume over time.

Generally Available: Ingest OTLP signals into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Azure Monitor's support for native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals is now generally available. This enables you to send telemetry data directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications and platforms to Azure Monitor.

Generally Available: Azure Monitor Service Level Indicators (SLI)

Azure Monitor now includes Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), giving teams a clearer way to measure how customers actually experience their applications.

Generally Available: Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor, available starting today.

Generally Available: Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Dynamic threshold for Log search alerts! Using dynamic thresholds means you don't have to know the right threshold for each Log alert rule - Dynamic thresholds calculate the most appropriate thresholds for you.

Generally Available: OpenTelemetry Metrics, Visualizations, and Enhanced Monitoring in Azure Monitor for Azure VMs and Arc Servers

OpenTelemetry metrics and visualizations in Azure Monitor are generally available, delivering an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc Servers.

Generally Available: Application Insights Auto-instrumentation for Azure Kubernetes Service apps

Azure Monitor Application Insights auto-instrumentation for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) apps is now generally available, making it easier to monitor your applications without modifying source code.

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

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana are generally available, bringing the power of Grafana’s open and composable visualization platform directly into the Azure Portal.

Generally Available: Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Azure Monitor provides a complete set of services for monitoring the health and performance of different layers of your Kubernetes infrastructure and the applications that depend on it.

Generally Available: Azure Monitor pipeline

Azure Monitor pipeline is now generally available.

Public Preview: Azure Monitor supports native OTLP ingestion using the Azure Monitor Agent

Azure Monitor now supports native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals. Send telemetry directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications by using the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) to receive OTLP from your apps and export it to Azure Monitor.