Azure Monitor's Service Map is retiring on September 30th, 2025

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Azure Monitor's Service Map is retiring on September 30th, 2025

Deprecation ID: 2e5cd350-d587-406b-b576-b9043a4c9216
Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
Impacted Services:

• Azure Monitor

More information:

• Announcement
• Migration Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

On 30 September 2025, Azure Service Map will be retired. To monitor connections between servers, processes, inbound and outbound connection latency, and ports across any TCP-connected architecture, you'll need to migrate to Azure Monitor VM insights.

The map experience of VM insights includes all the same functionality of Service Map, plus:

• Improved scalability and support for more complex maps.
• Deeper metrics capabilities for connections.
• Support for grouping the machines you onboard to the map experience with subscriptions, resource groups, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and Azure Cloud Services.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 07, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Sep 30, 2025	Feature will no longer work.

Impact

Azure Monitor's Service Map is retiring on September 30th, 2025 and migration to Azure Monitor VM insights is required.

Required Action

A migration guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To continue monitoring processes and dependencies for your Azure virtual machines and on-premises machines, review pricing and migrate to Azure Monitor VM insights by 30 September 2025.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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