About Azure Update Manager

Important

Both Azure Automation Update Management and the Log Analytics agent it uses has been retired on 31st August 2024. Therefore, if you are using the Automation Update Management solution, we recommend that you move to Azure Update Manager for your software update needs. Follow the guidance to move your machines and schedules from Automation Update Management to Azure Update Manager. For more information, see the FAQs on retirement. You can sign up for monthly live sessions on migration including Q&A sessions.

Update Manager is a unified service to help manage and govern updates for all your machines. You can monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across your machines in Azure and on-premises/on other cloud platforms (connected by Azure Arc) from a single pane of management. You can also use Update Manager to make real-time updates or schedule them within a defined maintenance window.

You can use Update Manager in Azure to:

Key benefits

Update Manager offers many new features and provides enhanced and native functionalities. Following are some of the benefits:

Next steps