What's new with Azure Operator Insights ingestion agent

The Azure Operator Insights ingestion agent receives improvements on an ongoing basis. To stay up to date with the most recent developments, this article provides you with information about:

  • The latest releases
  • Known issues
  • Bug fixes

This page is updated for each new release of the ingestion agent, so revisit it regularly. If you're looking for items older than six months, you can find them in archive for What's new with Azure Operator Insights ingestion agent.

Version 2.0.0 - March 2024

Supported distributions:

  • RHEL 8
  • RHEL 9

This release has been produced in accordance with Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle, including processes for authorizing software changes, antimalware scanning, and scanning and mitigating security bugs and vulnerabilities.

Known issues

None

New features

  • Simplified configuration schema. This is a significant breaking change and requires manual updates to the configuration file in order to upgrade existing agents. See the configuration reference for the new schema.
  • Added support for authenticating to the Data Product Key Vault with managed identities.

Fixed

None

Version 1.0.0 - February 2024

Supported distributions:

  • RHEL 8
  • RHEL 9

This release has been produced in accordance with Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle, including processes for authorizing software changes, antimalware scanning, and scanning and mitigating security bugs and vulnerabilities.

Known issues

None

New features

This is the first release of the Azure Operator Insights ingestion agent. It supports ingestion of Affirmed MCC EDRs and of arbitrary files from an SFTP server.

Fixed

None