New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Nothing

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Auto-discovery: Fixed a hang while performing discovery of a subscription

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Nothing

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Auto-discovery: Fixed a crash while performing discovery of Storage File System Shares

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Billing: Fixed Azure billing data fetch
- Azure Sensor Pack Performance sensor: fixed stuck states

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Added more verbose logging abilities 

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- New: Automonx Performance Sensor - monitors the performance aspects of the Sensor Pack for Azure

- AKS Profiles - fixed incorrect version values

- Subscriptions - Added support for subscriptions with special characters in their names

- Windows Guest Metrics - Removed interface and disk channels to reduce overall load on collector engine

- Azure Quotas - default polling was updated to every 4 hours 

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Fixed a crash during Auto-discovery of Azure Storage resources

- Unsupported resources report was updated

- Unsupported VM extensions - removed from auto-discovery

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- VM Windows Guest Statistics - fixed the polling method

- Azure DevOps - fixed polling method

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Fixed a crash when polling certain sensor types

- Include list validation was updated

- Added more sensors to a json-based repository

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- New ini value BACKUP_JOB_EMPTY_RESPONSE=WARN will set the sensor to Warning if a backup job was not found

- Azure Backup Job: value fluctuation was fixed 

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

Added warning on Azure Gateway timeout error

Fixed billing polling issues

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- New: Windows VM Guest metrics

- Billing: Updated API calls

- Multi-Disk sensor: Added a warning state when query fails

- Log Analytics: Better logging and query improvements

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Scheduler: auto-discovery functionality was fixed to avoid multiple discovery tasks

- Exclude/Include files handling: Fixed trailing space issue

- Additional logging was added for quicker troubleshooting

Automation

- Addition of empty groups was fixed

API

- Auto-discovery API: responses now reflect the correct status of auto discovery (HTML and JSON)

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Legacy EXEXML sensor - enhanced to support new sensor types

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Auto discovery: fixed certain metric values fluctuations during discovery

- Fixed crashes related to DataFactory auto-discovery

- Fixed crashes related to using a proxy to access the Internet

- Security:  All Azure IDs are now masked in debug and operational logs

- Security: The use of hardened Service Principal role (instead of built-in ReadOnly role) was tested and documented

https://www.automonx.com/post/harden-your-azure-service-principal-role-with-automonx

Automation

- Exclude by Tags functionality supports lines with multiple tags

- Exclude by Azure Subscription is now supported

API

- Auto-discovery API: responses now reflect the correct status of auto discovery (HTML and JSON) 

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- New Sensor: Entra Domain Services Health sensor was added

- Azure App Secret: fixed to support unnamed App Secrets

- Azure Load Balancer: fixed value fluctuation issue in Data Path Availability channel

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Reduced the time period to identify PRTG sensors that went from paused to un-paused state

- Multi-Tenant Licenses: fixed errors when first tenant license was not defined

- EXEXML Script capability - the legacy capability to use EXEXML script sensor instead of HTTP Advanced was fixed to handle path errors

Automation

- The automation module was updated to a new version

- Deletion: Block new automatic deletion or pause processes from running when an automatic deletion or pause of objects is in progress

- Deletion: Validate groups names for duplicates across PRTG and avoid deleting devices and sensors in groups that have identical names.

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- New Sensor: EntraID Service Health sensor was added

- Azure Service Bus: fixed to support special characters in its name

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Discovery: App Secrets white-list behavior was fixed

Automation

- The automation module was downgraded to the previous version

Installer

- Installer license evaluation details form was updated

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Preview metrics: Starting in version 4.3.43, all Azure preview metrics are disabled by default. Global switch was added to the INI file: ENABLE_PREVIEW_METRICS=FALSE

Existing PRTG sensors that have preview metrics, would still show them. Newly discovered sensors will not add any preview metrics.

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Discovery: Fixed errors during discovery of Logic Workflow

- Scheduler: Updated discovery script

- Secrets: Better handling of deleted secrets

- Fixed internal functionality

API

- API calls response was fixed to produce correct JSON output

- Discovery status API call response was improved

- Deletion of Tenant API call functionality was fixed 

Summary of fixes and features introduced in the 4.3.40, 4.3.41, 4.3.42 releases.

Important: Make sure to check the special installation instructions section below.

Fixed and Updated Sensors

- App Secrets - Fixed the handling of special characters.

- Azure Service Logic: was updated to fix possible crashes

- SharePoint: Custom lookup (OVL) file was removed. If you see warnings related to the OVL file, make sure to delete and re-discover the sensor

- Azure Backup Jobs: was updated to show error states as errors in PRTG (instead of warnings)

- AKS Upgrade Profiles: Preview versions are no longer shown in the list of possible versions to upgrade

- Azure Apps: fixed the handling of Apps with duplicate/empty display names - you need to delete the existing sensors that show errors in PRTG and re-discover them)

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Updated values in AutoMonX_AzureSensor.ini

- Fixed certain errors in logs

- Discovery: A crash was fixed that happens when new_resources verb was used

- Discovery: added log print-outs related to excluded resources

- Discovery: Fixed discovery of Apps that their secrets were configured without names and were not discovered

- The status of AutoMonX Backend service was added to the output of Config Check

Automation

- Adapted for the latest PRTG version (25.2.106.1114+)

Special Installation Instructions

- Review the content of AutoMonX_AzureSensor.ini. Make sure that the value of the key SENSOR_MODE is empty

- If you experience errors with App Secrets sensors, stop the AutoMonX Sensor Pack Services, delete all the files that their names are similar to <ID>_AutoMonX_Azure_types.json, start the AutoMonX services. Rediscover the App Secrets and add them to PRTG.

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Azure Service Logic: was updated to fix possible crashes

- SharePoint: Custom lookup (OVL) file was removed. If you see warnings related to the OVL file, make sure to delete and re-discover the sensor

- Azure Backup Jobs: was updated to show error states as errors in PRTG (instead of warnings)

- AKS Upgrade Profiles: Preview versions are no longer shown in the list of possible versions to upgrade

- Azure Apps: fixed the handling of Apps with duplicate/empty display names - you need to delete the existing sensors that show errors in PRTG and re-discover them)

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Discovery: A crash was fixed that happens when new_resources verb was used

- Discovery: added log print-outs related to excluded resources

- Discovery: Fixed discovery of Apps that their secrets were configured without names and were not discovered

- The status of AutoMonX Backend service was added to the output of Config Check

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Azure Workflows: The status indicator of a workflow was fixed

- AutoMonX License: added a new channel "Configured Tenants" to reflect how many Azure tenants can be monitored with the existing license

- Azure Host Pools: Text messages were adjusted

- AKS: Removed duplicate channels

- VM Disk: Removed the default threshold for Disk Reads

- DevOps Pipelines: A new channel to monitor failures

- DevOps Pipelines: Channel exclusion option was added

- Topic Subscriptions: Updated internal functionality

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Discovery: Fix to add certain missing resources

- Discovery: Applications Insights was fixed

Installer

- Automatic firewall ACL (access list) rules were adjusted to allow quicker startup of the AutoMonX Azure Backend Service

API

- All the API calls were updated to generate their responses in a JSON format

Internal Functionality

- Crash due to special characters fix - make sure to stop the AutoMonX service and delete 0_Automonx_Azure_types.json before the upgrade

- Updated Danish characters translation

API

- A new API endpoint /api/discovery/status/json for generating the discovery results in a json format

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Billing Sensor crashes were fixed

- VM Disk - fixed empty values 

- Custom KQL Sensor - Better handling of queries and special characters

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Crash/hang situation was fixed

- Internal performance was improved

- Monitoring efficiency was improved

- Exclude functionality - fixed

- Automation - better handling of Azure tags, support of special characters, progress bar issues

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Billing Sensor was updated

- Health Status - Removed VM Status channel from non-VM service health status

- Available Memory metric (Multiple Sensors) - thresholds updated

- VM Health Sensor - Configuration INI variable name changed to SET_VM_SERVICE_HEALTH_SET_BY_USER for the user to customize how to display VMs status that are deallocated by the user

(HTTP-based sensors will still function in paralell to HTTPs)

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Auto Discovery - incremental discovery feature is available. Quicker on-boarding of Azure resources to monitoring

- Auto Discovery - Scheduled functionality fixed

- Auto Discovery - Fixed Quota sensors discovery errors

- Multiple Tenants - Tenant IDs are no longer re-used

- Automation - delete function updated, additional safeguards added

API

- The update_key verb was updated 

New, Fixed and Updated Sensors

- Azure Alerts Sensor fixed to show actual alert text

- Custom KQL Sensor parsing engine was fixed

- Azure DevOps Pipelines - added new INI variable to allow custom monitoring period of last successful runs per specific pipeline: PIPELINE_CHECK_HOURS=24

- PRTG communication with the Sensor Pack can be switched to HTTPs for newly created sensors on port TCP 8492. Backward compatibility is maintained (HTTP-based sensors will still function in paralell to HTTPs)

Internal functionality Fixes and Updates

- Auto Discovery performance was fixed vs. the previous preview release

- Polling engine performance was enhanced

- PRTG Hosted default lookup support was fixed

UI

- A new UI version was introduced

API

- The Sensor Pack API can now be secured via an HTTPs protocol

- Our API can be remotely accessed, controlled by an access list file

- New API verbs added to provide more clear functionality: check_config, thorough and filtered

- Auto discovery initiation via API functionality was fixed

New Sensors
- Application Gateway Backend Servers Health sensor

Fixed and Updated Sensors
- Data Factories v2 Pipelines:
-  New OVL file - you need to delete and rediscover these sensors

-  Updated Data Factories sensor to check pipelines runs from last day (was last hour)
-  New channel added  - minutes since last run
-  Billing sensor was updated - new channel added: Accumulatedcost (Monthly)
-  Devops Pipelines sensor - can handle more than 50 pipelines
-  Managed SQL database sensor - was moved under the SQL MI (Managed Instance) device
-  Enterprise Certificates sensor - better filtering out of Microsoft built-in certificates

Note: Please make sure to upload all the new and updated OVL files to PRTG.
FYI - It is also possible with PRTG Hosted edition to         upload custom OVLs. Please consult our deployment guide for details.

 Automation 
 -  Monitoring Automation - new debug file and delete function were improved
-  Monitoring Automation - new CSV report is generated  which devices/sensors were not added and why
 

Internal Functionality
- Polling engine - Performance improvements of were made for quicker polling

- Support for different Azure URLs was improved (i.e 21Vianet)

New Features
- New Sensor added: DevOps Pipelines

Fixed sensors
- All Certificate and Secrets sensors: additional filtering  was applied out so only
              user-created certificates are monitored
            - VM Memory channel was fixed
            - VM Multi-disk fixed
            - Workflow status fixed
            - UI was updated

3. Fixed internal functionality
              - Whitelist of channels - fixed