Azure Database for MariaDB feature releases and blog posts over the past year

[Jim Toland]

We’ve been hard at work on Azure Database for MariaDB over the past several months, with several new feature/functionality releases. We have also published numerous blog posts related to the service.

Features and functionality

Regarding our releases over the past several months, we’ve announced several new capabilities that provide critical steps toward enabling customers to more easily leverage the service, including:

• General Availability
  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • VNET Service Endpoint
  • New compute options
  • Slow query log integration with Azure Monitor
  • Storage auto-grow option
  • Support for MariaDB 10.3
  • Availability in South Africa regions
• Public Preview
  • Database engine auditing
  • Same region Read Replica
  • Intelligent Performance

Blog posts

Below is a consolidated list of the blog posts we published over the last year, in reverse chronological order:

• Apr 2019
  • Deploying Grafana for production deployments on Azure
• Mar 2019
  • Secure server access with VNet service endpoints for Azure Database for MariaDB
• Jan 2019
  • Best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for MariaDB monitoring
• Dec 2018
  • Announcing the general availability of Azure Database for MariaDB

Note: For all blog posts related to Azure Database for MariaDB, see the following links:

• Azure Blog posts
• Tech Community posts

With several new features and additional service functionality in the pipeline, be sure to stay tuned for the latest updates!

The Azure Open Source Database Team