Azure continues to embrace open standards by adding new capabilities to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro that powers Azure Monitor Application Insights.
New Capabilities:
Rate-limited sampling and
trace-based log sampling: New sampling options in
the Distro provide an alternative to the existing fixed-rate (percentage-based)
sampler. Rate-limited sampling helps you control data ingestion by capping the
number of traces collected per second and trace-based log sampling drops any
logs correlated with sampled out traces, providing predictable cost management
while maintaining reliable observability.Learn More.
Performance Counters:Azure Monitor’s OpenTelemetry Distro now automatically collects system and process metrics, known as performance counters, that power key Application Insights experiences. These metrics provide deeper visibility into application performance and help you quickly diagnose and resolve performanceissues.Learn More.
New Telemetry Attributes:We’ve worked with the OpenTelemetry community to addSynthetic Source, Device IP Address, and Device OS/Browser to the semantic model. By bringing these fields into the official OpenTelemetry data model and Azure Monitor Distro, you can now seamlessly filter by synthetic traffic indicators, enrich client-source context, and segment telemetry by platform—making monitoring smarter, investigations faster, and insights more actionable.Learn More.