add deprecation page

Author: laujan

articles/cognitive-services/Translator/modifications-and-deprecations.md

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+---
+title: Modifications to Translator Service
+description: Translator Service changes, modifications, and deprecations
+services: cognitive-services
+author: laujan
+manager: nitinme
+ms.service: cognitive-services
+ms.topic: reference
+ms.subservice: translator-text
+ms.date: 11/15/2022
+ms.author: lajanuar
+---
+
+# Modifications to Translator Service
+
+Learn about Translator service changes, modification, and deprecations.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Looking for updates and preview announcements? Visit our [What's new](whats-new.md) page to stay up to date with release notes, feature enhancements, and newest documentation.
+
+## November 2022
+
+### Changes to Translator `Usage` metrics
+
+---
+ **Characters Translated** and **Characters Trained** are deprecated and have been removed from the Azure portal.
+
+---
+
+|Deprecated metric| Current metric(s) | Description|
+|---|---|---|
+|Characters Translated (Deprecated)|**&bullet; Text Characters Translated**</br></br>**&bullet;Text Custom Characters Translated**| &bullet; Number of characters in incoming **text** translation request.</br></br> &bullet; Number of characters in incoming **custom** translation request.  |
+|Characters Trained (Deprecated) | **&bullet; Text Trained Characters** | &bullet; Number of characters **trained** using text translation service.|
+
+## October 2022
+
+### Deprecated metric
+
+---
+**Characters Translated** and **Characters Trained** are deprecated and will be removed from the Azure portal in October 2022.
+
+---
+
+* In 2021, two new metrics **Text Characters Translated** and **Text Custom Characters Translated** were added to help the customers with granular metrics data service usage. These metrics replaced **Characters Translated** which provided combined usage data of the general and custom text translation service.
+
+* Similarly, the **Text Trained Characters** metric was added to replace the  **Characters Trained** metric.
+
+* **Characters Trained** and **Characters Translated** metrics have had continued support in the Azure portal with the deprecated flag in the Azure portal to allow customers to migrate to current metrics. These metrics are now scheduled for removal from the Azure portal.

articles/cognitive-services/Translator/toc.yml

@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ items:
     href: custom-translator/faq.md
 - name: Resources
   items:
+  - name: Modifications to Translator Service
+    displayName: deprecation, changes, modifications, usage, metrics
+    href: modifications-and-deprecations.md
   - name: Translator in sovereign clouds
     displayName: fairfax,compliant,secret,compliance,government,government cloud,dod,china,batch,region
     href: sovereign-clouds.md

articles/cognitive-services/Translator/translator-overview.md

@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ ms.topic: overview
 ms.subservice: translator-text
 ms.date: 07/11/2022
 ms.author: lajanuar
-ms.custom: cog-serv-seo-aug-2020
-keywords: translator, text translation, machine translation, translation service, custom translator
 ---
 
 # What is Azure Cognitive Services Translator?

articles/cognitive-services/Translator/whats-new.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ms.author: lajanuar
 
 # What's new in Azure Cognitive Services Translator?
 
-Bookmark this page to stay up to date with release notes, feature enhancements, and documentation updates.
+Bookmark this page to stay up to date with release notes, feature enhancements, and newest documentation.
 
 Translator is a language service that enables users to translate text and documents, helps entities expand their global outreach, and supports preservation of at-risk and endangered languages.