Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019
Here are the Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019.
08/08/2019
General availability: Metrics in Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager provides metrics for monitoring the health status of endpoints in a profile and the amount of traffic that a profile receives. These metrics are now generally available.
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