Monitoring

On 26 October 2026, Azure Updates announced that Network Watcher’s VNet flow logs filtering capability reached general availability. The feature lets operators log only the network traffic they actually need instead of capturing everything and filtering downstream. A discrepancy remains on the Microsoft Learn docs page, which still lists the feature as PREVIEW. The update timeline suggests a documentation lag rather than a reversal of status. What the filtering can do The filtering capability supports these fields: ...

On October 23, the ACR team published a technical deep-dive into the sharded metrics infrastructure behind Azure Container Registry’s new Transactions and Data Transfer metrics. These metrics went GA earlier this year, but the deep-dive explains the operational value — diagnosing traffic spikes, throttling, and regional workload shifts — and the engineering approach that made it possible. What the new metrics are ACR now publishes two platform metrics in Azure Monitor: ...