Microsoft's Windows Azure storage service went down worldwide just before 4 p.m. ET/9 p.m. UTC, apparently due to an expired HTTPS certificate. Here's what the Windows Azure status dashboard is ...

Going forward, the company will redesign the Windows Azure Dashboard, the interface that communicates the functionality of the cloud service to customers.

A quick link to the Azure Service Dashboard tells the story, and though it is up this morning, at the time of this writing (GMT 5:51 p.m.) the outage continued with comments from the Microsoft ...

Microsoft is taking further steps to help users of its Azure public cloud platform decarbonise their IT infrastructure estates by releasing a dashboard that helps them track the carbon emissions ...

Grafana, the analytics tracking tool, now has a native home within Microsoft Azure. You can try out Azure Managed Grafana in preview.