Analytics

Elasticsearch and Kibana users can now easily migrate to Azure Data Explorer (ADX) while keeping Kibana as their visualization tool, alongside the other Azure Data Explorer experiences.A new version…

You can now scan your Snowflake artifacts including streams, columns, stored procedures, and functions/pipes.

Transition to the new Azure 'HDInsight API 2021-06-01' before 30 November 2024.

Expanded options for autoscale for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse are now available through dynamic allocation of executors.

HDInsight is now available in more European regions, Sweden Central.

Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale…

Speed up big data processing in Azure Synapse with hardware-accelerated Spark pools.

Azure Data Explorer always supported to cache the latest ingested data for best performance. It now supports selectively caching older data which is ideal when auditing a given time period.

We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This…

This new output plugin allows you to write telemetry collected by any of the input plugins of Telegraf directly into Azure Data Explorer e.g. it makes SQL monitoring at scale…

Azure Synapse data explorer is optimized for efficient log analytics, using powerful indexing technology to automatically index structured, semi-structured, and free-text data commonly found in telemetry data.

Save time and reduce risk when batch scoring in Azure Synapse Analytics with the new PREDICT keyword.

Prioritize sensitive data in cloud workloads using Azure Purview’s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Database templates in Azure Synapse enable you to integrate and shape data from across multiple internal and external sources. This helps you eliminate data silos and accelerate building analytics-infused applications…

Azure Purview will enable data owners to use a simple intuitive experience to centrally manage access to data in Azure Storage

Azure Purview, the unified data governance solution, expands its multi-cloud coverage with support for Amazon RDS.

Partition your data in analytical store using keys that are critical for your business logic to achieve better query and data load performance.

Event Hubs Premium comes with reserved compute, memory, and storage resources, which increases the performance and minimizes cross-tenant interference in a managed multi-tenant PaaS environment.

Azure Availability Zones enabled Stream Analytics allows you to run mission-critical applications with higher availability and fault tolerance to datacenter failures. 

Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more.

Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you…

You can now create Azure HDInsight with restricted public connectivity resulting in a more secure networking infrastructure.

Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure Private Link to connect to your HDInsight cluster privately across networks over Microsoft backbone network

You can now save up to 28 percent on Azure Synapse workloads without sacrificing flexibility with Azure Synapse pre-purchase plans.

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build…

The Azure Purview Data Map and Data Catalog are generally available.

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build…

The latest version of the open-source Apache Spark is now available in Azure Synapse Analytics Apache Spark pools.

You can now write cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer, to access relevant data where you need it.

Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024.

Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024.

HDInsight is now generally available for Australia Central customers.

Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code is for developers to easily author, test, debug, and manage Azure Stream Analytics jobs.

HDInsight is now generally available for West US 3 customers.

Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from Erwin, BigQuery and Looker soureces to extract schema and lineage between data.

The Azure Purview product glossary provides comprehensive set of product terms and definitions used in Azure Purview features and functionality.

Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data.

The new support for H3 based geospatial clustering in KQL enables users to visualize and explore spatial data stored in Azure Data Explorer.

Injecting an Azure Data Explorer cluster into a virtual network has never been easier.

SQL Server is now available as a data flow source sink from your on-premises and VM-based instances in ADF and Synapse Analytics.

Use T-SQL in Azure Synapse to read Delta Lake format.

Blob inventory allows you to get a full listing of all blobs within a storage account or container. This can be used in conjunction with Synapse to calculate per container…

Power your business applications data with analytical and predictive insights.

Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from a Hive Metastore Database to extract schema and lineage between data.

Access unused Azure compute capacity at discounted rates using Spot VMs on Azure Databricks

Event Hubs Premium is a new product SKU that is tailor-made for high-end event streaming scenarios that require elastic, superior performance with predictable latency.

Beginning today, this GPU acceleration feature in Azure Synapse is available for private preview by request.

The public preview announced today starts with the foundation based on the open-source Apache Spark 3.0 branch with subsequent updates leading up to a Generally Available version derived from the…

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build…

Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Australia East and UK South region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview…