Azure Monitor changelog 2025

Supports OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift with Container Insights and Managed PrometheusPreview

One-click recommended alerts in the portal to monitor Azure Monitor Workspace ingestion limitsPreview

Adds rate-limited and trace-based log sampling, performance counters and new telemetry attributesGA

AI-driven investigations of anomalies across Azure resources including Application Insights, VMs and AKSPreview

Machine learning calculates thresholds for Log search alert rules, per dimension combinationPreview

Single-click onboarding for AKS clusters and VMs with default alertsGA

OpenTelemetry-based visualizations and unified monitoring view for Azure VMs and Arc ServersPreview

Query-based alerts cover all Azure metrics and support PromQL conditions on Prometheus and OTel metricsPreview

New per-process metrics track sends, drops and retries with reason codes, plus an SDK Stats workbookPreview

Retiring September 30, 2026; migrate to Managed Identity authenticationDeprecation

Retiring September 30, 2026; move to on-premises Operations Manager or Azure MonitorDeprecation

Traffic, latency and throttling metrics with new dimensions such as operation type and status codeGA

Renamed Monitor and moved to top level; Insights blade retires January 1, 2026

High Scale mode gives higher log collection throughput from AKS clustersGA

Native Grafana dashboards in the Azure portal at no additional costPreview

Routes container logs from different namespaces to separate Log Analytics workspaces per team on shared AKS clustersGA

Maximum results per job raised from 1 million to 100 million recordsGA

Alert rules scoped to the whole tenant, not just individual subscriptionsPreview

ARM API requests quota increase up to 20 M events per minute or 20 M active timeseriesPreview

Summarize high-ingestion streams across Analytics, Basic and Auxiliary plans; limit raised to 100 rules per workspaceGA

Simpler UI, cost estimation preview and higher concurrency for Search JobsGA

Retiring June 30, 2028; no new VM onboarding from portal after September 30, 2025Deprecation

Query Prometheus metrics with PromQL in Metric Explorer through Azure Monitor workspaceGA

Ingestion errors for Prometheus metrics can be viewed in platform metricsPreview

Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs, collecting data every 5 secondsPreview

Custom events can now be sent from the OpenTelemetry Distro to Application InsightsGA

Limit raised from 30,000 to 100,000 records per queryGA

Cross-regional replication ingests logs in two regions and allows switching over; billed per replicated GBGA

One-click enablement of Prometheus community alerts in the Azure PortalGA

One-click Prometheus community alerts for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clustersPreview

Container insights visualizations can use managed Prometheus data, with multi-cluster viewGA

Arc-enabled Kubernetes visualizations can use managed Prometheus data instead of Log Analytics metricsPreview

Row-level and table-level access control using Azure ABAC conditions in role assignmentsGA

AI analyzes telemetry to troubleshoot health degradation, for Application Insights resourcesPreview

Evaluates each log row individually for low-latency alerts, including Basic LogsPreview

Customizable alert email subjects with dynamic values, via ARM template in MayPreview

Create and edit Grafana dashboards in the Azure Portal at no additional costPreview

Analyzes metrics ingested in Azure Managed Prometheus workspaces to find unused metrics, free of chargePreview

Sends container logs from AKS namespaces to separate Log Analytics workspaces per teamPreview

Support the Basic log plan, which can cut logging costs by 80%GA

HELM chart-based agent onboarding retires October 1, 2025; migrate to Azure Arc extensionDeprecation

Codeless monitoring for Java and Node microservices on Linux node poolsPreview

Redesigned Insights view with free basic tier and detailed Prometheus-based insightsPreview

Continuous and on-demand VM diagnostics added to VM Overview Monitoring tab and VM InsightsPreview

Storage pool and disk metrics collected with Azure Monitor Managed Prometheus, viewable in Managed GrafanaPreview