What’s new in Azure Monitor @ Build 2023

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Azure Monitor offers a rich set of enterprise-ready capabilities to increase observability of your hybrid environment, enabling high availability, reliability, and performance. Recently, we launched several capabilities in the cloud-native space to enhance Kubernetes monitoring. Watch the video below to learn about these new capabilities, how to get started with Azure Monitor’s unified cloud-native offering for Kubernetes, and for a demo of how to troubleshoot a memory leak in Grafana and Azure Portal.

 

 

Today at Microsoft Build 2023, we are announcing more capabilities that will help you gain streamlined visibility into your application and infrastructure workloads.

 

General availability of Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus brings the best of what you like about the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention. It is available to use as a standalone service from Azure Monitor or as an integrated component of container insights and Azure Managed Grafana. Read our blogAdditionally, Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc (in preview).

 

Our customers are already reaping the benefits of Managed service for Prometheus, evidenced below:

 

"DocuSign needed an observability solution that ticked all the boxes: user-friendly, low maintenance, scalable, and extensible. Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus & Azure Managed Grafana emerged as the ideal choice. By using these solutions, DocuSign not only streamlined monitoring and observability, but also effortlessly scaled to meet expanding requirements. Managed service for Prometheus and Azure Managed Grafana revolutionized our operations, delivering a powerful and cost-effective observability solution." – Ankit Srivastava, Product Lead Manager at DocuSign

 

“Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has enhanced our operational efficiency, reduced maintenance needs and increased the stability of our monitoring platform. With the ability to centralize our monitoring through the seamless integration to multiple AKS Kubernetes clusters, we have gained a holistic view of our infrastructure health. Combined with Azure Managed Grafana, it’s an indispensable monitoring solution we wouldn’t want to be without.” – Hamza Tumturk, Head of DevOps at Wejo

 

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Figure 1: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus overview diagram

 

Public preview of Cluster Optimization workbook for Azure Monitor container insights

Cluster Optimization workbook for Azure Monitor Container insights allows you to optimize your cluster. Salient capabilities include the ability to detect liveness probe failures and their frequencies, identify and group event anomalies that indicate recent increases in event volume for easier analysis, and identify containers with high or low CPU and memory limits and requests, along with suggested limit and request values.​ Learn more here.

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Figure 2: Cluster optimization workbook report

 

Public Preview of Azure Monitor network observability AKS add-on

The new network observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster. This capability seamlessly integrates with Azure Managed Service for Prometheus and Azure Managed Grafana, providing improved observability in a unified experience. Read our blog.

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Figure 3: Network observability metrics dashboard

 

Public preview of Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, Node.js, Python

Our new Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry distros for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), and Python​ (Java is already GA), bundle OpenTelemetry components together so you can instrument with a single line of code. We import a “thin layer” of Azure-specific components to ensure you get the best experience on Azure that includes AAD Auth, correlated traces when using Application Insights SDKs in other parts of your service, Application Insights Standard Metrics, and Automatic detection of Azure Resources to auto-populate. Read our blog.

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Figure 4: Application map powered by OpenTelemetry

 

Revisit customizable cost optimization settings on Azure Monitor container insights

With the public preview of cost optimization settings on Azure Monitor container insights, you can optimize costs by adjusting your data collection settings for frequency and namespace. By filtering out data collected, you can consequently reduce your Azure Monitor ingestion costs. Learn more here.

 

Finally, here are some additional resources that you can leverage:

  • Read our dedicated guidance cookbooks to learn about monitoring best practices for your cloud and edge environments.
  • Catch up on our webinar, available on-demand now, to learn tips and tricks to optimize Azure Monitor costs.
  • Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date on all things Azure Monitor.
  • Reach out to us with any questions or feedback on our Tech Community.

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