December 2021

Your Serverless digest!

Azure Serverless Monthly is a quick read version that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Serverless Updates like blog articles, podcasts and videos from Microsoft Azure and the rich ecosystem built around this community.

It is aimed at Developer, Architect working in your Enterprise Application Integration projects involving Azure Serverless components trying to keep on top of the latest Azure serverless developments.

General availability: Audit Logs of Azure Monitor log queries

Posted on 01 December 2021

Azure Monitor logs allows you to collect data across your entire ecosystem including application and OS level telemetry, security logs, network logs, diagnostic logs from Azure resources, and custom logs. Read More

Public preview: Azure Monitor action rules are now 'alert processing rules'

Posted on 01 December 2021

Renaming Azure Monitor action rules to ‘alert processing rules’ which will continue to provide post-processing capabilities for fired alerts in Azure Monitor, such as scheduled suppression and at-scale actions management. Read More

Public preview: Measure product effectiveness with new user analytics experience in Application Insights

Posted on 01 December 2021

Azure Monitor Application Insights is a cloud native application monitoring offering which enables you to observe failures, bottlenecks, and usage patterns to improve application performance and effectiveness. Read More

Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now generally available

Posted on 08 December 2021

Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now generally available. Immutable storage provides the capability to store data in a write once, read many (WORM) state. Read more

General availability: Azure Communication Services interoperability with Microsoft Teams

Posted on 09 December 2021

Azure Communication Services can now be used to connect users of a custom-built app with users on Microsoft Teams via voice, video or chat. Read More

Azure Storage: Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) conditions with principal attributes now in public preview

Posted on 09 December 2021

Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is an authorisation strategy that defines access levels based on attributes associated with security principals, resources, requests and the environment. Read More

Azure SQL—General availability updates for December 2021

Posted on 15 December 2021

Enable long-term retention on your Azure SQL Managed Instance to store full backups for up to 10 years. Read More

Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault is now in public preview

Posted on 15 December 2021

With the Azure Key Vault automated key rotation feature, now in public preview, you can set a rotation policy on a key to schedule automated rotation and configure expiry notifications through Event Grid integration. Read More

Community Content

Here's a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted by community enthusiast over the last month.

1. DevOps – Multi environment variables/ groups
   By Sandro Pereira
2. Logic Apps: Sending Files Dynamically – A little Christmas gift
   By Sandro Pereira
3. Handling expired Azure Blob Storage links in a user-friendly way
   By Michał Żołnieruk
4. Azure AD app configuration for Web API - DEV Community
   By Kohei Kawata
5. Manage and monitor multiple Azure Data Factory with different pipelines
   By Dhanasuya Guruswamy
6. Visualizing Azure Data Factory Pipeline runs
   By Balasubramaniam Murugesan
7. How to connect Azure SQL database from Python Function App using managed identity or access token
   By Kevin Li
8. Azure Cloud Shell with Oh My Zsh and Oh My Posh
   By Justin Yoo
9. Native change data capture (CDC) - CosmosDB change feed is supported in ADF now
   By Ye Xu
10. Terraform integration with Azure VMware Solution
    By Juan Manuel Rey
11. Log Analytics experience improvements December 2021
    By Roy Gal
12. Power Automate Best practices - Copy to my clipboard
    By Sandro Pereira
13. Power Automate Best practices - Using Scopes
    By Sandro Pereira