Azure Monitor is on the second version of its network monitoring, which covers all networking parts (no agent required for Azure cloud monitoring) such as subnets and vNets, VPN and performance, ...

Azure Automation Update management solution relies on this agent and may encounter issues once the agent is retired. It does not work with Azure Monitoring (AMA) Agent.

Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) now supports Windows 10 and Windows 11 through the Windows client installer and also has an agent migration tool, now in preview.

The Azure Monitoring Agent, used by Microsoft's Azure Security Center threat protection offering, can now collect security metadata from Windows Server 2016 virtual machines.

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana will allow customers to create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure portal without any additional cost and little administrative overhead.