Azure Monitor Collection Agent Plugin 4.x Release Notes

Overview Copied

This page provides information about the Azure Collection Agent plugin version 4.x release, including new features and resolved issues.

For a detailed overview of the Geneos 7.x.x release, including key highlights for other components, see Geneos 7.x Release Notes.

Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.3.0 Copied

Released: 29 August 2024 Packaged with Geneos 7.0.0

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AZUREMON-522 The Azure plugin now supports password-less connection to Azure Event Hub for a more secure connectivity.
AZUREMON-536 Subscription-wide events can now be published by the Azure Event Hub collector, allowing for Azure monitor metrics to be accurately traced back to their respective subscriptions.
N/A Updated the Azure Marketplace deployment.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
COL-12154 Updated the Azure identity dependency to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2024-35255.

Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.2.2 Copied

Released:

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
COL-13017 Upgraded Netty to version 4.1.131.Final to resolve the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2025-24970 (BDSA-2025-1033)
  • CVE-2025-55163 (BDSA-2025-8614)
  • CVE-2025-58056 (BDSA-2025-10730)
  • CVE-2025-58057 (BDSA-2025-10732)
COL-13048 Updated the Collection Agent and certain Collection Agent plugins to the following versions:
  • Collection Agent 4.5.2
  • AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.3.2
  • Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.2.2
  • Fluentd Forward Collection Agent plugin 4.1.2
  • JDBC Collection Agent plugin 4.3.1
  • Kubernetes Collection Agent plugin 4.1.1
  • Prometheus Collection Agent plugin 4.1.1

Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.2.0 Copied

Released: 2 July 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.9.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
AZUREMON-460 In the Azure Collection Agent plugin, datapoints have been updated to reflect status metrics.
AZUREMON-535 Azure Eventhub Collector now uses observed timestamps to handle unknown timestamp formats.
AZUREMON-538 Fixed publicNetworkAccess issues in the Microsoft Azure Plugin. Additionally, the pom file was updated to use the geneos-netprobe-standard package instead of geneos-netprobe.

Issues fixed Copied

Issue key Release description
AZUREMON-529 Fixed an issue where Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB account (RU) was not displaying in the dataview. The Microsoft.Documentdb entity now displays correctly.
AZUREMON-530 The Azure plugin for Microsoft.Containerinstance now includes a state metric in the dataview.

Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.1.1 Copied

Released: 21 May 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.8.1

Issues fixed Copied

Issue key Release description
COL-12061 The Collection Agent and all associated Collection Agent plugins packaged in Netprobe have been updated to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2024-29025 (BDSA-2024-0720). The affected components have been updated to the following versions:
  • AWS plugin - 4.2.1
  • Azure plugin - 4.1.1
  • Collection Agent - 4.0.3
  • FluentD Forward plugin - 4.0.1
  • Google Cloud Platform plugin - 4.1.1
  • GRPC plugin - 4.0.1
  • JDBC plugin - 4.2.1
  • MongoDB plugin - 4.1.1
  • OpenTelemetry plugin - 4.0.1
  • Prometheus plugin - 4.0.1

Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.1.0 Copied

Released: 25 April 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.8.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
AZUREMON-362 The Azure Monitor Plugin now uses the latest Azure resource management libraries. 
AZUREMON-454 The Azure Monitor plugin can now accurately acquire the operating system and application count from Microsoft.Web/serverfarms. 

Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.0.0 Copied

Released: 15 February 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.7.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
AZUREMON-518 You can now access Azure cloud through a proxy host.
AZUREMON-519 The base image for Azure Marketplace image has been updated from Ubuntu 18.04-LTS to Ubuntu 22.04-LTS to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-48795.

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