Hi, We're trying to integrate anomaly detection in our data pipeline but I can see that the Azure Anomaly Detection service is being retired and we cannot create any more new Anomaly Detection resources on Azure: Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/ What is the alternative service that we can start using now for detecting anomalies in our data? Thanks, Mo

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza Apologies for the late reply. Dear valued customer, As you might already know, Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor will be deprecated in Oct 2026, during which existing Azure Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor resources will continue to operate, but no new resources can be created. In terms of replacement, we are still finalizing the detailed guidance for the migration from Azure Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor to Azure Fabric. We understand that this may cause some inconvenience and uncertainty, but we assure you that we are working diligently to ensure a smooth and seamless transition. Please expect an update early next year. In the meantime, we highly recommend that you stay updated on the latest developments by regularly checking the official documentation and email from us. Additionally, you can reach out to Microsoft support for any specific questions or concerns you may have. Once the detailed guidance is available, we will share it with you and provide any necessary assistance in migrating to Azure Fabric. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Azure Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor team ** Please do not forget to " Accept the answer ” and “ up-vote ” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members

Azure anomaly detection is being retired, what are the alternative services provided by Azure?

Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza 10

Hi,

We're trying to integrate anomaly detection in our data pipeline but I can see that the Azure Anomaly Detection service is being retired and we cannot create any more new Anomaly Detection resources on Azure:

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Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/ai-services/anomaly-detector/

What is the alternative service that we can start using now for detecting anomalies in our data?

Thanks,

navba-MSFT 18,905 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-11-22T16:04:39.82+00:00

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!
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I understand that, Since anomaly detector is getting retired, you are exploring some alternatives to the Anomaly detector.
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Potential alternatives:

Azure Data Explorer and Stream Analytics for anomaly detection | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure

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Time series anomaly detection & forecasting - Azure Data Explorer | Microsoft Learn
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Hope this helps. If you have any follow-up questions, please let me know. I would be happy to help.

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Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza 10 Reputation points

2023-11-22T16:12:23.08+00:00

Thanks for the reply. We've already explored the anomaly detection using ADX and Stream analytics but they have their own limitations. We need to perform multi-variate anomaly detection on IoT devices but ADX and Stream analytics don't provide us the ability to do that. The only possibilities are to perform uni-variate anomaly detection or use third party packages such as sklearn to perform multi-variate anomaly detection.

I expected to see an alternative service being introduced in the Microsoft Ignite event but I didn't see anything. Also, I checked the Microsoft Fabric documentation and there is a Multi-variate anomaly detection article in the docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/fabric/data-science/multivariate-anomaly-detection) but it still needs us to create an anomaly detection resource which is not possible anymore.

Is there a service provided by Azure to perform multi-variate anomaly detection without using third party packages? is there something being built as a replacement in the background?

Thank you for your help
navba-MSFT 18,905 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-11-22T16:24:50.0333333+00:00

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza Thanks for your reply. I will check this further and get back to you with an update.
Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza 10 Reputation points

2023-11-22T16:26:31.5566667+00:00

@navba-MSFT thanks for the prompt responses. Looking forward to hearing back from you!
navba-MSFT 18,905 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-11-24T04:21:01.3166667+00:00

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza I am yet to hear from the product Owners. I will update this thread once I have more details.
Baranova, Marina (IBM ADC) 0 Reputation points

2023-11-24T12:25:51.52+00:00

Thank you for your answer. We are also searching for a ready-to-use solution for multivariate anomaly detection. However, if there will be no other option, would you recommend using Azure ML to create customised solution?
navba-MSFT 18,905 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-12-01T04:07:52.1966667+00:00

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza Just following up to check if the below answer helped. If that answers your query, do click "Accept the answer” for the same, which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. And, if you have any further query do let me know. I would be happy to help.
Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza 10 Reputation points

2023-12-01T11:20:04.61+00:00

hi @navba-MSFT thanks for getting in touch again. I'll wait until the documentation is updated and the new service is introduced. Could you please send an update in this thread once the new service is released?

Thank you
navba-MSFT 18,905 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-12-01T12:55:26.63+00:00

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza Thanks for getting back. We will update this thread once we have concrete plan about the transition.
mariflor vega 0 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-12-11T11:03:55.4666667+00:00

Hi, do you have a date for publishing the detailed guidance for the migration from Azure Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor to Azure Fabric? Thank you
Jakob Østergaard Nielsen 0 Reputation points

2024-05-24T09:38:27.3366667+00:00

Any update on current alternatives to "AI Anomaly Detector" ?
The emergence of AI and Copilot during the last part of 2024 could present new alternatives for performing multivariate Anomaly Detection.

Can you please update this thread with the most recent recommendation and transition path from the deprecated "AI Anomaly Detector" ?

Thanks
Sumeet Sandhu [ CONT-Type2-EXPERIS US INC ] 0 Reputation points

2024-06-14T15:55:51.63+00:00

Is there an update on MVAD multivariate anomaly detection?
I see some (simple?) time series analysis in Fabric at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/query/anomaly-detection which doesn't seem to offer (more sophisticated) MVAD.
Sumeet Sandhu [ CONT-Type2-EXPERIS US INC ] 0 Reputation points

2024-06-14T15:57:37.43+00:00

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navba-MSFT 18,905 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-11-30T11:48:58.32+00:00

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza Apologies for the late reply.

Dear valued customer,

As you might already know, Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor will be deprecated in Oct 2026, during which existing Azure Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor resources will continue to operate, but no new resources can be created. In terms of replacement, we are still finalizing the detailed guidance for the migration from Azure Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor to Azure Fabric. We understand that this may cause some inconvenience and uncertainty, but we assure you that we are working diligently to ensure a smooth and seamless transition. Please expect an update early next year.

In the meantime, we highly recommend that you stay updated on the latest developments by regularly checking the official documentation and email from us. Additionally, you can reach out to Microsoft support for any specific questions or concerns you may have.

Once the detailed guidance is available, we will share it with you and provide any necessary assistance in migrating to Azure Fabric. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Azure Anomaly Detector/Metrics Advisor team

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Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza 10 Reputation points

2024-01-02T09:48:21.78+00:00

Hi @navba-MSFT , happy new year. Has there been any updates on this?

navba-MSFT 18,905 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-01-02T09:51:43.97+00:00

@Pourtorkan, Mohammadreza Happy New Year. There is no update on this so far. We have kept this thread in our radar. We will update this thread once we have concrete details about the plan. Thanks for understanding. We appreciate your patience on this.

Mudassar A 486 Reputation points

2024-03-13T12:38:14.6366667+00:00

@navba-MSFT Any update on what is the replacement in Azure AI services for Anomaly detector as it will be retired ?
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