The team catches up with Daniel Taylor and Bradley Ball of the Azure Fast Track team and learns about how Database Watcher can help customers better manage and debug their Azure SQL, Elastic Pools, SQL Managed Instances, and Hyperscale and the replicas. 

Daniel and Bradley also share the really cool work they are doing helping Azure customers learn about Azure with their Tales from the Field YouTube channel, plus we hear about some upcoming events where you can see Daniel and Bradley in person!!!

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode500.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z_jBWLUBY9g

Resources: 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database-watcher-overview?view=azuresql

https://youtu.be/qr1Qxwao68M?si=mO24KZF3PAvTnnmn

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Guest-OS-Family-Retirement

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/cmk-for-backup-vaults-ga/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Elastic-SAN-Feature-Updates

Azure classic resource providers will be retired on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cale, Evan and Sujit discuss the often-overlooked Network Watcher service in Azure and how it can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting and logging of network operations in your VNETs.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode482.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/CYLtFrbXGck

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview

Other updates:

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Service Bus | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Store and manage medical imaging data with Azure Data Lake Storage (Preview) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-free-sql-managed-instance/

The team talks with Pujitha and Sidhanshu about Project Flash, an initiative to improve VM availability monitoring that allows for immediate actions and trend analysis at scale.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode421.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7vXz-tjQAA

Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-azure-virtual-machine-availability-monitoring-with-project-flash/ 

https://aka.ms/flashblog

Other updates:

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-sql-database-hyperscale-reverse-migration-to-general-purpose-tier/

General availability: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-zone-redundancy-for-azure-sql-database-general-purpose-tier/

Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-purview-is-now-microsoft-purview/

Getting rid of credentials in Azure (multi-part)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/getting-rid-of-credentials-in-azure-part-1/ba-p/3265205

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2022 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-sql-public-preview-updates-for-midapril-2022/

Generally available: IBM WebSphere on Azure with evaluation licensing

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ibm-websphere-on-azure-with-evaluation-licensing/

Evan and Sujit talk to Nick Burling who is VP of Product Management at Blue Stripe Software http://bluestripe.com a Microsoft Gold Partner that builds products to support and monitor Azure deployments.

Nick shares his views on the adoption of Azure, some of the challenges that companies face in moving to the cloud and the surprising success of Azure Pack.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode65.mp3

White paper from Blue Stripe on monitoring Azure Pack. 

http://bluestripe.com/whitepapers/application-monitoring-inside-windows-azure-pack/