Out of date content regarding initiative under Azure policy

LakshmiNarasimhan-9845 0

The initiative mentioned in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-features-tools-azure-for-governance-compliance/3-describe-purpose-azure-policy seems to be out of date.

Security center is renamed to defender for cloud. I am not able to find the "Enable Monitoring" initiative under Azure Policy in the portal.

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Rakesh Gurram 15,715 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-05-29T15:53:42.7433333+00:00

Hi LakshmiNarasimhan-9845,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Regarding Azure Policy initiatives—particularly your reference to the "Enable Monitoring" initiative and the mention of "Security Center" (now known as Microsoft Defender for Cloud)—we’d like to clarify that the initiative previously labeled "Enable Monitoring" is no longer available under that name in the Azure Policy portal. Microsoft now provides more targeted initiatives for enabling monitoring, mainly through Azure Monitor and VM Insights. We have reached out to our internal team and will get back to you as soon as we have a resolution.

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