data collection rules

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...

Vectra AI’s warning about Azure logging is more than another vendor alert; it is a reminder that cloud visibility can change when the platform underneath it changes. The company says Microsoft’s migration away from legacy Azure Diagnostics extensions toward the Azure Monitor Agent and Data...

Microsoft will pause uploads from the legacy Log Analytics (MMA) agents for 12 hours on January 26, 2026 as a validation test ahead of the permanent shutdown of legacy backend services in March 2026 — a move that raises immediate operational risk for any environment that still depends on the...