What’s New? Unveiling the Latest Features of the Azure Native Dynatrace Service
Introducing Multi-Subscription Monitoring for Dynatrace on Azure We’re excited to announce the general availability of Multi-Subscription Monitoring (MSM) for the Azure Native Dynatrace Service (ANDS). This powerful new capability allows customers to monitor multiple Azure subscriptions through a single Dynatrace resource—significantly simplifying the setup of observability for multiple Azure subscriptions at scale. Organizations often operate across dozens—or even hundreds—of Azure subscriptions. Until now, when setting up observability with the Azure Native Dynatrace Service, customers had to create one Dynatrace resource per Azure subscription, leading to higher operational overhead and some redundant configurations. With Multi-Subscription Monitoring, customers can now consolidate monitoring of up to 20 Azure subscriptions into a single Dynatrace resource, streamlining their operations and reducing complexity. 🧩 How It Works The feature is available directly in the Azure portal: Navigate to your Dynatrace resource. Go to Environment Configuration > Monitored Subscriptions. Click Add Subscriptions. Select the subscriptions you want to monitor—Dynatrace will automatically detect those where your managed identity has the required permissions. Click Add. Once added, the subscriptions will appear with an “Active” status, and diagnostic settings will be applied automatically based on your tag rules. ⚠️ Note: You can link up to 20 subscriptions per Dynatrace resource. If you reach the 20 subscriptions linked to one Dynatrace resource, you have to create a new Dynatrace resource in the next Azure subscription you want to link. To use MSM, the managed identity associated with your Dynatrace resource must have Owner permissions on the target subscriptions. 📘 Learn More Check out the article here for step-by-step guidance and stay tuned for updates on the Azure Tech Community blog. We look forward to your feedback! Announcing Enhanced Customization for Dynatrace OneAgent Installation on Azure VMs We’re excited to introduce a powerful new capability in the Azure Native Dynatrace Service: The installation of Dynatrace OneAgent on Virtual Machines (VMs) now supports additional parameters. This enhancement adds flexibility and control to your observability workflows—directly from the Azure portal. Previously, customers installing Dynatrace OneAgent via the Azure portal needed to manually configure important options. This included enabling system logs, choosing infrastructure-only monitoring, or setting proxy configurations. These settings were only available through CLI-based setups or post-installation. This manual configuration created friction for certain use cases, including the following: Security-conscious teams wanting to pre-configure log ingestion, proxy settings and custom installation paths. SREs managing multiple subscriptions desiring to predefine host groups and network zones for better organization and routing. With this update, we’re providing advanced configuration and automation. What’s New: Full Parameter Control at Install Time You can now configure the following parameters during agent installation via the Azure portal or CLI: Parameter Description Monitoring Mode Enable full-stack or infra-only monitoring Host Group Assign host to a logical group Network Zone Route traffic through a specific network zone Proxy Define address of proxy server Custom Host Name Custom host name for agent Enable Log Monitoring Enable/disable log monitoring Enable Auto Update Auto-update agent version Access to System Logs Enable/disable system log collection Enable Automatic Ingestion Enable/disable auto-ingestion Extensions ingest port Set custom ingest port StatsD Port Set custom StatsD port These parameters are optional, giving you the freedom to tailor the installation to your environment’s needs. 🔍 Learn More To explore the full list of parameters and their usage, check out the official Dynatrace documentation: Customize OneAgent installation on Linux — Dynatrace Docs We look forward to your feedback!Now Generally Available: Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution
Co authored by: vjirovsky Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate Independent Software Vendors (ISV) SaaS with a unified billing on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, Pure Storage Cloud Service offers you the same trusted Pure Storage capabilities in the cloud, without the complexity of refactoring or rearchitecting your VMware environments. You can easily discover and sign up for this via the Azure Marketplace. Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate Independent Software Vendors (ISV) SaaS with a unified billing on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, Pure Storage Cloud Service offers you the same trusted Pure Storage capabilities in the cloud, without the complexity of refactoring or rearchitecting your VMware environments. You can easily discover and sign up for this via the Azure Marketplace. “We’re excited to announce Microsoft’s strengthened partnership with Pure Storage through the Azure Native Integrations program. With the service now generally available, customers can seamlessly deploy enterprise-grade block storage on Pure directly from the Azure portal. This seamless integration with Azure VMware Solution enables elastic capacity, flexible performance, and instant resizing – all while unlocking the full power of Azure’s cloud and AI capabilities.” - Scott Hunter, Vice President Product Management, Microsoft Developer Division Key Benefits of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud on AVS Enterprise customers migrating VMware workloads to the cloud have long faced challenges with storage scalability, cost inefficiencies, and operational overhead. With this GA release, Pure Storage removes those barriers and delivers: Decoupled Scalability & Flexibility: across Compute and Storage solutions, so you pay only for what you need. Seamless Native Azure Experience: Provision Pure Storage Cloud resources via the client of your choice - Azure portal, CLI, PowerShell or SDK. Multi-Region support: Enjoy the support for your Pure Storage resource across East US, East US 2, West US 2, Central US and Australia East regions, with many more coming in shortly! Cost Efficiency: Achieve up to 40% Total Cost of Operations (TCO) savings through best-in-class data reduction and compression solutions. Streamlined VMware Migration: Simplify the transition of VMware workloads from on-premises or hybrid and multi-cloud environments onto Azure with consistent storage performance, nearly zero downtime, and minimal business disruption. Easy management: Perform all daily operations on AVS from a single VMware vSphere client directly via built-in plugin for Pure Storage Cloud Robust performance and reliability for mission-critical workloads with enterprise-grade Data protection and Data resilience support, with solutions such as Pure Snapshots and Hybrid Disaster Recovery in the pipeline. Fig 1: Pure Storage benefits of decoupled storage scalability. Why Pure Storage? Gartner report from Sept 2025 states that by 2029, consumption-based storage as a service (STaaS) will replace 50% of on-premises enterprise storage and data services infrastructure capital expenditure (capex), an increase from 15% in early 2025. Pure Storage® is a pivotal storage player among the Enterprise customers in revolutionizing the storage, management and resiliency while ensuring flexibility. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a seamless cloud migration experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service (STaaS) platform across on-premises, private and public cloud, and hybrid environments. Pure has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms, with highest rating in Execution & Vision. An enterprise-favorite, some key customers for Pure Storage include ServiceNow, NASA, Comcast and many more! Fig 2: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, Sep 2025, Gartner Inc. Get Started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud Getting started is simple and fully integrated into the Azure experience. You can now start your journey quick and easy, and you pay only for the storage you use. For a detailed step-by-step visual guide, check out this YouTube playlist. Search and Provisioning the Pure Storage Cloud Resource Look for “Pure Storage Cloud” in the Azure portal or Azure Marketplace and sign up to subscribe. Select the service and create a new Pure Storage resource. Follow the instructions in the QuickStart to easily spin up your Pure Storage resource. Fig 3: Searching for Azure Native Pure Storage via Azure portal Create Storage Pools Using your Vnet and a delegated subnet to PureStorage.Block/storagePools, use the Overview blade navigation or the Action tile in the bottom to create and configure your storage pools. Fig 4: Newly created Pure Storage resource Overview in Azure portal Fig 5: Create Storage pool blade in Azure portal Connect to an Azure VMware Solution (AVS) resource Once created, you can use the Connect button up top to link your storage pool to AVS. In a few minutes, your storage pool is coupled with your VMware resource and ready to use! Fig 6: Connect AVS button establishes connection between storage pool and AVS resource Also, it automatically installs the Pure Storage Cloud plugin into your VMware resource, so you can manage everything, including the storage, from a single place, vSphere Client. Fig 7: Creation of a Datastore within the vSphere Client – this maps to a Storage container on your Pure Storage Cloud resource We’re excited for you to try out our solution! If you have suggestions or questions, contact us at azurenative@purestorage.com Resources Sign up for the service via Azure marketplace here. For a detailed visual guide on the step-by-step process to create a Pure Storage resource on Azure, check out this YouTube playlist. To learn more about the service, FAQ, and how to create your resource, check out the Microsoft docs as well as the Pure docs. Learn about how to create datastores and volumes and manage your Pure Storage here. Check out Azure Storage's blog and Pure’s press release for more excitement around the Pure-Microsoft partnership.Azure Native Integrations: General Availability of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure
We're excited to announce the general availability of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure. This integration empowers Quality Assurance (QA) teams with a unified TestOps control plane embedded directly in Azure, enabling faster, more reliable, and scalable testing workflows. With the integration with Azure, customers can leverage KaneAI which is a GenAI-Native testing Agent. Cloud-Native + AI-Native: The Future of QA Layer Cloud-Native (HyperExecute) AI-Native (KaneAI) Combined Benefits Performance • Intelligent parallel orchestration across Azure regions • Fast environment spin‑up via reusable templates • Dependency caching for sub‑minute starts • AI‑driven test script generation • Automated maintenance and updates • Smart test orchestration with fewer manual triggers Up to 70% faster test cycles with AI-assisted authoring and seamless, scalable orchestration Reliability • Auto‑scaling infra with built-in failover • Consistent environments remove “works on my machine” • Retry logic & flaky test suppression • Predictive flaky test detection • Auto‑healing with ML-suggested fixes • Root cause analytics with learning feedback loops Near-zero flakiness and increased release confidence via intelligent infra + AI-powered recovery Precision • Granular test matrices for environment-specific runs • Broad platform coverage (OS, browsers, frameworks) • Controlled, versioned infra • Risk-based test prioritization • Predictive coverage analysis • Intelligent gap detection Maximized ROI by executing only the most critical tests with minimal noise and optimal coverage Together, they form a QA productivity engine that scales with your velocity, reliability, and precision needs. Next steps We would love for you to test out the experience and share your feedback! You can review our documentation, browse to the following link and create the Azure Native LambdaTest – HyperExecute resource right from the Azure portal. Do share you feedback here.Azure Native Integrations: General Availability of Arize AI on Azure
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Native integration with Arize AI, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2024. This integration brings advanced AI observability and evaluation capabilities directly into the Azure ecosystem, enabling data scientists and ML engineers to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve their models with ease. Why Arize AI? Arize AI addresses critical challenges in AI observability and evaluation, offering: Real-time model monitoring to detect performance degradation Automated root cause analysis for faster troubleshooting Bias detection and mitigation to ensure fairness Performance tracking across different segments and cohorts Seamless integration with Azure ML and other Azure services Azure Native Integration: Enterprise-Grade AI Observability Arize AI is deeply integrated into Azure across four key dimensions: Category Azure Native Capabilities Security & Compliance Azure AD, RBAC, and policy inheritance Deployment Provision and manage Arize AI applications using Azure portal, ARM templates, CLI and SDK Resource Management Instant provisioning, elastic scaling, cost-optimized infrastructure, single sign-on Procurement & Billing Available via Azure Marketplace with integrated billing Cloud-Native + AI-Native: The Future of AI Observability Arize AI delivers an intelligent observability platform: Auto-generate insights from model performance data Risk-based prioritization using historical performance and business impact Conversational debugging with natural language queries Predictive performance degradation detection and auto-healing Together, they form an AI observability engine that scales with your velocity, reliability, and precision needs. Next steps We would love to hear from you! You can go through our documentation, try out the experience and share your feedback.Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of Arize AI on Azure
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Azure Native integration with Arize AI, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2024. This integration brings AI agent observability and evaluation to Azure, empowering AI engineers and developers to build more scalable, reliable, and effective AI applications and AI agents The integration of Arize AI with Azure provides AI teams with the ability to detect issues, troubleshoot why they happened, and improve overall AI agent and application quality. Benefits of Arize AI Evaluate and Improve the Quality of AI Agents and Apps: Arize AI offers powerful tools to develop, evaluate, and monitor AI applications. It enables prompt optimization and management, supports real-time evaluations of live systems, and provides deep observability for end-to-end tracing. Improved Application Reliability: By continuously evaluating and monitoring generative app performance, Arize AI helps ensures AI applications are working with enterprise quality outcomes. Faster Development Cycles: Arize AI allows for rapid iteration using pre-production app evaluations and workflows to test models, prompts and agents. Automatically optimize prompts with auto-optimization services and test AI applications with CI/CD based experiment runs. Features of Azure Native Integration with Arize AI Seamless Development Experience: Azure Native Integrations facilitate a smooth onboarding process, allowing you to quickly integrate Arize AI into your existing Azure workflows while leveraging Azure’s secure and scalable infrastructure. Simplified Deployment: Easily provision and manage Arize AI applications using familiar tools such as Azure portal, ARM templates, CLI, and SDK. Ease of Billing: Control your third-party spends directly from the Azure Marketplace, simplifying the billing process. Single Sign-On: Seamlessly switch between Azure resources and Arize AI without needing to enter your credentials again. How it works? Next steps We would love to hear from you! Try out the public preview experience and give us feedback. For more information, you can refer to our documentation.Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure
Power of Azure Native Integration The native integration with Azure brings several key advantages to organizations already invested in the Microsoft ecosystem: Seamless Resource Management Provision HyperExecute resources directly from the Azure portal Unified billing and cost management through your existing Azure subscription Single-Sign on capability to the LambdaTest-Hyperexecute instance Streamlined CI/CD integration Native connectivity with Azure DevOps pipelines and integration with GitHub Actions running in Azure Built-in support for Azure Artifacts and container registries Automatic test result synchronization with Azure Test Plans Enhanced Security and Compliance Integration with Azure Active Directory for identity management Leverage existing Azure security policies and compliance certifications Data residency controls aligned with Azure regions Why LambdaTest HyperExecute? LambdaTest HyperExecute is an AI-native next-generation test orchestration platform designed to run automated tests at incredible speeds. It addresses common pain points in test automation: Test execution speed: Dramatically reduces test execution time by up to 70%. Flaky tests: Minimizes inconsistent test results by delivering stable, standardized, and consistent test environments Infrastructure management: Eliminates the need to maintain testing infrastructure, saving on hardware costs, and IT management overhead Scalability challenges: Provides instant access to thousands of browser and OS combinations without requiring you to provision, configure, or maintain these environments yourself enabling on-demand scaling for peak testing needs. Customers today can have 1000+ parallel sessions. LambdaTest HyperExecute's advanced Test Intelligence capabilities provide unprecedented visibility into your test suite performance, helping teams move beyond simple pass/fail metrics to truly understand test behavior patterns. Comprehensive Flakiness Management Automated Error Analytics HyperExecute doesn't just run tests faster—it fundamentally transforms how teams approach testing by combining acceleration with intelligence to help you ship better software with confidence. How it works? Next steps We would love for you to test out the public preview experience and share your feedback! Browse to the following link and create the Azure Native LambdaTest HyperExecute resource right from the Azure portal. Do share you feedback here.Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution. This Azure service offers native-like integration of Pure Storage's innovative enterprise-grade fully managed block Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) with Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) aiding seamless VMware migrations to the cloud along with scalability, simplicity and data resiliency. Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate independent software vendor (ISV) software and services on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, Pure Storage Cloud Service offers you many benefits, including scaling flexibility, native Azure experience, unified billing, and cost-effectiveness. You can easily discover and sign up for this via the Azure Marketplace. "We’re pleased to see Pure Storage’s integration with Microsoft Azure Native service. Through this collaboration, Pure and Microsoft can better serve customer needs by enabling them to provision, use and manage Pure Storage on Azure just like other Azure services. With this integrated offering, Pure and Microsoft are helping customers to quickly leverage Pure's enterprise-grade storage with Azure cloud services securely to open up a whole new set of possibilities for customers bringing enterprise-scale environments to the cloud. Together, Pure and Microsoft are helping customers save time and operational overhead while driving innovation." - Scott Hunter, Vice President Product Management, Microsoft Developer Division. Gartner report from Sept 2024 states that by 2028, consumption-based storage as a service (STaaS) will replace over 33% of enterprise storage capital expenditure (capex), up from less than 15% in 2024. Pure Storage® is a pivotal storage player among the Enterprise customers in revolutionizing the storage, management and resiliency while ensuring flexibility. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a seamless cloud migration experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service (STaaS) platform across on-premises, private and public cloud, and hybrid environments. They are a 11x consequent leaders in Gartner® Magic Quadrant report for Primary Storage Platforms, with highest rating in Execution & Vision. Thus proving why, they are undoubtedly the Enterprise favorites! Some key customers for Pure Storage include Meta, ServiceNow, AC Milan, Comcast and many more! Fig 1: Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage, Sep 2024, Gartner Inc. How will Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for AVS help me? Fully managed block-storage-as-a-service solution, providing decoupled scalability and flexibility across Compute and Storage solutions. Optimized Total Cost of Operations (TCO) up to 40% with data reduction and compression tools. Seamless data mobility and migrations of VMware workloads across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions to the Azure cloud. Enterprise-grade Data protection and Data resilience, with solutions such as Hybrid Disaster Recovery support in the roadmap. Get started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution Setup and subscribe to your Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud, available easily in the Azure Marketplace. You can start your journey free of cost and pay as you use the service. Look for “Pure Storage Cloud" in the Azure Marketplace and sign up via Contact Me button to show your interest for the preview. Fig 2: Contact Me offering on Azure Marketplace Once you have been allowlisted for the preview, you can also look for it using the search bar on Azure Portal or visit the marketplace on Azure portal to see the offer in your list of private plans. Fig 3: Searching for Azure Native Pure Storage via Azure portal Pure Storage in Marketplace private plans via Azure portal Provisioning a Storage Pool via Azure: Follow the instructions in the QuickStart to easily spin up your Pure Storage resource. Once you have created the Pure Storage resource on Azure, follow the simple steps in the Microsoft Learn docs, or navigate directly via the Overview blade to create Storage pools. 2. Quick-and-easy Connect to AVS: You can now easily connect your Pure Storage with your Azure VMWare Solution (AVS) using the “Connect” button in Storage pool. Resources Subscribe to the “Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution” available as Pay as You Go via Contact me in the Azure Marketplace. Create an Azure Native Pure Resource and storage pools via the service, see QuickStart: Get started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud Service in Microsoft Docs. To learn more, check out the Pure blog and Pure’s Press release. Learn more about the Pure Cloud Block Store and how to use it with AVS here.Partner Blog | How software development companies are paving the way for AI transformation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it is a transformative force that is reshaping industries and redefining the future of software development. As AI continues to evolve, ISVs—as well as companies that develop software—are at the forefront of this revolution, leveraging AI to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and create the next generation of intelligent applications and solutions. Microsoft, with its extensive resources and deep domain knowledge, is playing a pivotal role in enabling software development companies (SDCs) to harness the power of AI and shape the future of software development. A recent report published by Microsoft provides comprehensive insights into the state of generative AI (GenAI) for business leaders, detailing its immediate impact, future potential, and best practices for implementation. The report highlights how partners that develop software leveraging Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI Service are achieving faster innovation cycles, greater operational efficiency, and new revenue streams. The AI Decision Brief details how Microsoft software development partners have already seen significant benefits from the adoption of generative AI technologies: Accelerating development cycles: AI-powered tools help developers code up to 55% faster, debug more efficiently, and automate repetitive tasks. For example, GitHub Copilot users complete coding tasks 46% faster on average, enabling teams to ship software more quickly and focus on innovation. Enhancing product innovation: AI enables companies to create smarter applications with predictive capabilities, personalized experiences, and dynamic automation. Dentsu, a multinational media company, used Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI Service to develop an AI-powered predictive analytics tool that reduced media planning time by 90%. The ability to analyze vast datasets and generate insights in real time is transforming industries. Driving operational efficiency: Generative AI is cutting operational costs by up to 30% for businesses leveraging automation. Easton, a global leader in intelligent power management, streamlined the creation of 1,000 standard operating procedures (SOPs) using Microsoft 365 Copilot, reducing the time required per SOP from one hour to just 10 minutes—an 83% efficiency improvement. Expanding customer impact: AI-powered applications are increasing customer engagement and satisfaction by delivering more personalized, responsive, and intelligent experiences. Properstar, a real estate technology company, leveraged generative AI to analyze unstructured real estate data and provide advanced filtering and search capabilities, helping customers find the perfect property faster and with greater accuracy. Continue reading herePartner Blog | What's new for Azure partner-led offerings: ISV Success and specialization updates
As a partner-first company, Microsoft is dedicated to investing in partner success and creating new opportunities to drive business and AI transformation. In this blog post, we'll share what's new for Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate as of January 1, 2025—including expanded AI benefits and incentives with ISV Success, updates to specializations, and the growing Azure Essentials momentum. Throughout the year, you can find key updates here on the partner blog as new scenarios and workloads are added. Overview of Azure partner-led offerings Azure partner-led offerings—which include Azure Innovate and Azure Migrate and Modernize—are built to work together to simplify the adoption of Azure. With comprehensive resources, extensive coverage across scenarios, and tailored incentives in one easy-to-navigate hub, accredited partners can access these offerings to better support customers from migration to innovation. To underpin these offerings, Azure Essentials equips partners with foundational guidance, best practices, and dedicated skilling to help you elevate security, reliability, and ongoing performance for cloud and AI workloads. What's new effective January 2025 Continue reading full blog here
