At Build 2026, we're announcing the general availability of OpenTelemetry (OTel) Guest OS metrics for Azure VMs and Arc-enabled Servers. OTel provides a standards-based foundation for VM monitoring w...

Azure Monitor SLIs are now generally available Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Azure Monitor are now generally available. Teams can now measure reliability ba...

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Export using data collection rules (DCRs). A scalable, flexible way to continuously export platform metrics with dim...

Following Microsoft’s recent GA announcement for OpenTelemetry (OTel) support, we are excited to announce support for Exemplars for customers instrumenting metrics with Prometheus or OpenTelemetry an...

Azure Monitor Health Model is a modern observability capability that brings together telemetry, architecture, and business context of your workloads to generate health insights. It continuously aggre...

At Microsoft Build 2026, we are announcing the public preview of multi-stage transformations for Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules (DCRs). Multi-stage transformations let you filter, aggregate, par...

What is Azure Monitor pipeline?  Azure Monitor pipeline provides centralized governance and a single point of control that runs close to your data sources, so you can filter, transform, aggregate, ...

Over the last six months, we have been listening to you and building new capabilities to help you observe your agents. You’ve been sharing with us that quality issues are tricky and evaluation is cri...

Monitoring is only useful when the right signals are collected, the right alerts are in place, and the data is actually flowing when teams need it. In large Azure environments, confirming all three a...