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slug: "azure-monitor-containerlog-table-retirement"
title: "Azure Monitor: Container insights ContainerLog table retirement"
summary: "Retirement date for the ContainerLog table in Azure Monitor container insights: 30 Sep 2026. Workloads that use it need to transition to the ContainerLogV2 table."
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service: "Azure Monitor"
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category: "feature"
type: "retirement"
announced_date: "2023-09-29"
effective_date: "2026-09-30"
effective_precision: "day"
replacement: "ContainerLogV2 table"
affected_versions: []
source_url: "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=transition-to-the-containerlogv2-table-by-30-september-2026"
extra_source_urls: ["https://aka.ms/containerlogmigration"]
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updated_at: "2026-11-13T13:36:44.208Z"
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# Azure Monitor: Container insights ContainerLog table retirement

Retirement date for the ContainerLog table in Azure Monitor container insights: 30 Sep 2026. Workloads that use it need to transition to the ContainerLogV2 table.

- Effective date: 30 Sep 2026
- Cloud: [Azure](https://eolwatch.dev/cloud/azure.md)
- Service: [Azure Monitor](https://eolwatch.dev/services/azure/monitor.md)
- Type: Retirement
- Category: [Feature](https://eolwatch.dev/categories/features.md)
- Replacement: ContainerLogV2 table
- Announced: 29 Sep 2023
- Official source: [azure.microsoft.com](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=transition-to-the-containerlogv2-table-by-30-september-2026)
- Last checked: 12 Nov 2026

## What breaks

The ContainerLog table in Azure Monitor container insights is retired on 30 Sep 2026. Alerts and dashboards that rely on ContainerLog need to be transitioned to ContainerLogV2 to keep working as expected. ContainerLogV2 offers all the functionality of ContainerLog, plus compatibility with the basic logs pricing tier, additional pod and container metadata, and support for multiline log entries.

## What to do

[Transition](https://aka.ms/containerlogmigration) to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 Sep 2026 so that alerts and dashboards continue to work as expected.

## Replacement

ContainerLogV2 table

## Sources

- [Official source](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=transition-to-the-containerlogv2-table-by-30-september-2026) (azure.microsoft.com, Official)
- [Additional source](https://aka.ms/containerlogmigration) (aka.ms, Official)

Last checked against the first source in this list on 12 Nov 2026.

Page: https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-monitor-containerlog-table-retirement | JSON: https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-monitor-containerlog-table-retirement.json

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