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slug: "azure-monitor-vm-insights-map-dependency-agent-retirement"
title: "Azure Monitor: VM Insights Map and Dependency Agent retirement"
summary: "Retirement date for VM Insights Map and the Dependency Agent in Azure Monitor: 30 Jun 2028. After that date, the Map tab, the Service Map API and new Dependency Agent data are no longer available."
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service: "Azure Monitor"
service_slug: "monitor"
category: "feature"
type: "retirement"
announced_date: "2025-07-02"
effective_date: "2028-06-30"
effective_precision: "day"
replacement: null
affected_versions: []
source_url: "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=491629"
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created_at: "2026-11-13T13:36:44.208Z"
updated_at: "2026-11-13T13:36:44.208Z"
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# Azure Monitor: VM Insights Map and Dependency Agent retirement

Retirement date for VM Insights Map and the Dependency Agent in Azure Monitor: 30 Jun 2028. After that date, the Map tab, the Service Map API and new Dependency Agent data are no longer available.

- Effective date: 30 Jun 2028
- 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: Not stated by vendor
- Announced: 2 Jul 2025
- Official source: [azure.microsoft.com](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=491629)
- Last checked: 12 Nov 2026

## What breaks

All functionality associated with VM Insights Map and the Dependency Agent is retired on 30 Jun 2028, and both are no longer supported. After the retirement date, customers cannot access the Map tab in VM Insights or the Connections Overview workbook, cannot install the Dependency Agent on new VMs from the Azure portal, cannot send new data to Azure Monitor Log Analytics using the Dependency Agent, and cannot query the Service Map API. Existing data stays in the Log Analytics workspace according to the configured retention policy. No new operating system versions are supported from June 30, 2025, and new VMs cannot be onboarded from the Azure portal after September 30, 2025.

## What to do

1. Read the [retirement and migration guidance](https://aka.ms/DependencyAgentRetirement).
2. To keep collecting data about processes running on virtual machines and external process dependencies, consider a replacement solution from the Azure Marketplace.

## Replacement

Not stated by vendor.

## Sources

- [Official source](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=491629) (azure.microsoft.com, Official)
- [Additional source](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/vm/vminsights-dependency-agent-maintenance) (learn.microsoft.com, Official)
- [Additional source](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/vm/vminsights-maps) (learn.microsoft.com, Official)
- [Additional source](https://aka.ms/DependencyAgentRetirement) (aka.ms, Official)

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

Page: https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-monitor-vm-insights-map-dependency-agent-retirement | JSON: https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-monitor-vm-insights-map-dependency-agent-retirement.json

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