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Azure Monitor is Microsoft's platform for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments. Discussions on WindowsForum cover several upcoming retirement deadlines that affect Azure Monitor components, including the HTTP Data Collector API and AgentDirectToStore capability, both ending support on September 14, 2026, and July 31, 2026, respectively. Members share migration strategies for moving from legacy ingestion methods to the Logs Ingestion API and for replacing URL ping tests with Standard web tests before the September 30, 2026 retirement. Newer features like Dynamic Thresholds for log search alerts and the Azure Copilot Observability Agent are also discussed, offering automated anomaly detection and AI-guided troubleshooting. The tag reflects a focus on operational planning, dependency discovery, and cost-aware migration as Azure Monitor evolves.
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    Azure Functions 1.x and Data Collector API End Support September 14, 2026

    Azure Functions 1.x and the Azure Monitor HTTP Data Collector API share a September 14, 2026 support deadline, so teams should treat any workload that uses both as one dependency problem: identify the function, its sender, its log destination, and its owner before changing either runtime or...
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    Azure Monitor HTTP Data Collector API Support Ends September 14, 2026

    Azure Monitor’s HTTP Data Collector API reaches end of support on September 14, 2026, but that date is not a confirmed hard ingestion cutoff for clients using TLS 1.2 or later, according to a Microsoft Q&A response attributed to the Azure Monitor backend team. It remains the support-end date, so...
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    • azure monitor data collector api microsoft sentinel migration planning
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Application Insights URL Ping Tests Retire September 30, 2026

    Microsoft will retire Application Insights URL ping tests on September 30, 2026, but administrators should not automatically convert every free ping into a paid Standard web test. The right move is to inventory the existing estate, price each endpoint by frequency and location count, migrate...
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    • application insights availability testing azure monitor cloud finops
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Azure Monitor AgentDirectToStore Retires July 31, 2026: Migration Guide

    Microsoft will retire Azure Monitor’s preview “Send virtual machine client data to Event Hubs and Storage” capability on July 31, 2026, so operations teams should find every data collection rule whose kind is AgentDirectToStore, classify its purpose, and build a validated replacement before...
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    • azure data explorer azure monitor data collection rules log analytics
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Azure Monitor Data Collector API Support Ends September 14, 2026

    Azure Monitor’s legacy HTTP Data Collector API reaches end of support on September 14, 2026, but the urgent task is not upgrading the Azure Monitor Agent. It is finding every PowerShell script, scheduled task, IIS application, SQL job, Windows service, and line-of-business executable that still...
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    • azure monitor data collector api dcr migration logs ingestion api microsoft sentinel migration planning powershell
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Universal Print Observability Preview (June 2026): Azure Monitor Alerts & Purview Audit

    Microsoft has marked two Universal Print observability features as preview available in June 2026, with rollout start targeted for December 2026: diagnostic logs and alerts through Azure Monitor, and audit logging into Microsoft Purview’s Unified Audit Log. Admins should use the June preview...
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    Azure Copilot Observability Agent GA: AI-Guided Troubleshooting in Azure Monitor

    Microsoft announced on June 23, 2026, that Azure Copilot Observability Agent is generally available for Azure customers, adding an AI-driven troubleshooting layer to Azure Monitor that correlates logs, metrics, traces, topology, resource health and operational context across cloud environments...
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    Azure Monitor Dynamic Thresholds for Log Search Alerts (June 2026)

    Microsoft has added Dynamic thresholds for Azure Monitor Log Search Alerts in June 2026, bringing automated anomaly detection to log-based alert rules so administrators can alert on unusual behavior without manually choosing static limits for every query. The change matters because log alerts...
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    CVE-2026-41105 and Azure Monitor Action Groups: When alerts become a privilege risk

    Microsoft has assigned CVE-2026-41105 to an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Azure Monitor Action Group notification system, and as of May 8, 2026, the public MSRC entry identifies the affected cloud component but discloses little about the underlying flaw. That sparse disclosure is...
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    Azure Monitor Callback Phishing: Fake Microsoft Billing Emails via Legit Cloud Alerts

    Microsoft’s own cloud infrastructure is being abused in a way that should make every security team sit up straight: attackers are using Azure Monitor to send billing-themed phishing emails that look like genuine Microsoft notifications. The campaign stands out because it does not depend on crude...
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    Azure Monitor Pipeline Public Preview: TLS Ingestion, Pod Placement, and Transformations

    Microsoft’s recent push to expand Azure Monitor’s edge-to-cloud observability surface adds three practical capabilities to the Azure Monitor pipeline in public preview — TLS/mTLS secure ingestion, pod placement controls, and data transformations with automated schema standardization — features...
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    SCOM to Azure Monitor: 2027 End of Support timeline clarified for hybrid monitoring

    Microsoft’s decision to shift the Sentinel/telemetry migration timeline and related monitoring deprecations toward a January 2027 end-of-support window is the most consequential infrastructure calendar call many enterprise ops teams will face this year — and it arrived after a wave of customer...
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    SCOM MPs for SSRS PBIRS SSAS Deprecated: Move to Azure Monitor Arc Log Analytics

    Microsofto’s Jan. 19, 2026 announcement that it will deprecate the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) marks another clear pivot from on‑premises...
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    SCOM Deprecation: Move to Azure Monitor and Arc by 2027

    Microsoft’s announcement that the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management packs for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) are formally deprecated in January 2026 with an End of Support date of January 2027 is a...
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    SCOM MPs Deprecated for SSRS PBIRS SSAS: Shift to Azure Monitor Arc

    Microsoft’s announcement that the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) are deprecanted — with support ending in January 2027 — is a tectonic shift for enterprises...
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    • azure arc azure monitor log analytics monitoring migration scom deprecation scom migration
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    ADS Retirement and SCOM Deprecation Push SQL Tooling Toward VS Code and Azure Monitor

    Microsoft’s latest lifecycle moves have quietly — and in some cases not so quietly — tightened the noose on on‑premises SQL tooling and monitoring, forcing many organizations to rethink long‑standing architectures and operational contracts. Two separate but complementary actions define the...
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    • ai governance archival integrity azure arc azure monitor journalism ethics model hallucination sql server vs code
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    CVE-2025-62550 and Azure Monitor Agent: Urgent RCE Playbook

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE‑2025‑62550 as a Remote Code Execution (RCE) entry affecting the Azure Monitor Agent, but the vendor page is client‑side rendered and does not expose full advisory text without JavaScript, so the public technical details remain limited until the MSRC...
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    Modern Azure Development Toolkit 2025: From Legacy Tools to Official Solutions

    The short version: a decade-old roundup that lists “10 tools for Microsoft Azure development” still surfaces in search results, but the landscape has changed dramatically—some entries are useful historical pointers, a few are niche community utilities, and several are obsolete or superseded by...
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    Agentic Observability: New Relic MCP Server on Azure SRE Agent and Foundry

    New Relic’s latest push to wire intelligent observability directly into Microsoft Azure’s agentic surfaces promises to shorten troubleshooting loops, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and bring production-grade telemetry into the IDE and control-plane experiences developers and SREs use...
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    • agentic observability ai azure monitor azure sre agent mcp protocol microsoft foundry new relic mcp server observability
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Urgent Patch CVE-2025-62207 in Azure Monitor Agent Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft’s advisory tracker lists CVE-2025-62207 as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Monitor components, but public technical details are currently limited and the vendor entry does not disclose an exploit proof‑of‑concept; defenders should treat this as an urgent signal...