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NG 2.15

🗓️ ⏱️ 29 min read

Overview​

The NG 2.15.0 release introduces new O11ySources, expanded observability capabilities, and key platform enhancements to improve monitoring, security, and user experience. Alert Pop-Ups and WhatsApp integrations now offer customizable notifications and alerts. For ITSM and MS Teams integrations, we now support multiple authentication methods, including OAuth2, Basic Auth, and No Auth, providing greater flexibility for integration setups. Browser RUM for monitoring real user experience and Synthetic Monitoring to improve performance baseline tracking. Hyperscale updates bring better transaction summarization and JSON data handling, while UTM enhancements now preserve node layouts during upgrades. Application vulnerability fixes enhance security and compliance. User login tracking and APM improvements ensure better visibility and monitoring of applications and user activity. These updates make vuSmartMaps more secure, efficient, and intuitive, delivering enhanced observability and proactive issue resolution across all critical areas.

Key Highlights​

  • Alert Pop-up: A new pop-up option is now available for alerts. Users can configure specific rules to trigger on-screen notifications, enabling immediate awareness and faster action. These rules can be set at system level (Global setting) and can be overridden by the user with user-specific pop-up settings in the profile section.
  • Configurations & Preferences: Configurations & Preferences Enhancements: Configuring global alert pop-up settings, support for WhatsApp custom integrations along with existing official Meta-API, OAuth2 support for Jira and ServiceNow integrations, and MS Teams integration with OAuth for seamless connectivity.
  • Accessing vuSmartMaps - Logging in: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support is now available in NG. This enhances login security with OTP verification via SMS, email, or authenticator apps.
  • Summary Storyboard: Provides CXO and IT Ops teams with a high-level view of Journey, Application, Infrastructure, and Network performance, featuring summary cards, business insights, and the vuRI Score for proactive alert management.
  • Definitions: Support for monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has been introduced, bringing an OCI Credentials section in Definitions. This enables users to centrally manage and integrate OCI credentials in vuSmartMaps, enhancing security, efficiency, and observability without manual configurations.
  • ContextStreams: ContextStreams debugging now offers improved log visibility with reverse ordering and color-coded log levels. Pipeline management has been enhanced with an Edit Pipeline button, Start/Stop controls, and critical bug fixes for better usability.
  • vuApp360: vuApp360 now offers enhanced application observability with automatic multi-service detection in a single JVM, enriched trace context through HTTP header capture, and configurable noise reduction to focus on critical traces and optimize performance analysis.
  • Browser RUM: This provides real-time insights into user interactions, tracking page load times, API performance, and Web Vitals to enable proactive issue detection and performance optimization for a seamless digital experience.
  • Synthetic Browser Journey Monitoring: Synthetic Browser Journey Monitoring simulates user interactions to track performance, errors, and response times, helping teams identify issues, optimize workflows, and ensure a seamless digital experience.
  • Alerts: Alerts notification channels will now use the System Default timezone (configured in the About page) instead of UTC, ensuring alert details are displayed in the customer-specific timezone for easier interpretation.
  • UTM: UTM now preserves node positions during upgrades and prevents graph resets when adding new nodes, ensuring a consistent layout and easier management of complex configurations.
  • O11ySource - Seamless Upgrades (Phase 1): Each O11ySource now displays a version number to help users easily track updates and changes.
  • WhatsApp Chatbot Integration: Enhancements to the WhatsApp Chatbot Integration now enable users to receive real-time transaction queries, dynamic responses, and alert analysis, ensuring faster insights and a better user experience.
  • Hyperscale: Hyperscale Enhancements improve transaction summarization with better duration and status tracking, while JSON data type support simplifies dynamic data storage and management for greater efficiency.
  • User Login Tracking Dashboard: This now includes detailed user activity insights, providing a comprehensive view of logins for better monitoring and management.
  • App Sec Vulnerabilities: This improves security and stability by upgrading Kubernetes and migrating key services to RHEL.

NG 2.14

🗓️ ⏱️ 21 min read

Overview​

We are excited to announce the latest release, which brings a wide range of enhancements to elevate user experience, expand capabilities, and improve system performance. This update includes new O11ySources, integration with Zoho Cliq for alert notifications, enhanced ticket management, and improved documentation with Docusaurus. The vuApp360 Trace Map offers clearer trace analysis, while ContextStreams introduces new features like the Clear button and export functionality. Additionally, updates to User Management simplify bulk permission assignments, and data storage enhancements provide better memory utilization insights. Other highlights include LDAP configuration improvements, custom dashboard visualizations, and the new Sizing Calculator for resource planning. With these updates, users can expect a more efficient, flexible, and insightful platform experience.

Key Highlights​

  • Alerts: Zoho Cliq is now integrated with vuSmartMaps to send alert notifications with key details, easily configurable through the Preferences module.
  • Alert Console: Enhanced ticket management now allows users to create and view tickets directly from the Alert Listing and Details pages, improving workflow and usability.
  • Docusaurus Integration for Documentation: The user guide is now integrated with vuSmartMaps using Docusaurus, offering offline access, version control, and seamless access during deployment, improving documentation reliability and usability.
  • vuApp360: The new Trace Map replaces the Flame Graph, List View, and Database View, offering a clearer and more efficient way to analyze trace data, while the vuApp360 Dashboards now include pre-sampling for focused performance insights.
  • Dashboard: The Custom Dashboard List Visualization organizes dashboards into category-based cards, offering sorting options and personalized panels for quicker access and smoother navigation.
  • ContextStreams: ContextStreams debugging is enhanced with a Clear button for manual data clearing, capped logs at 500 entries, repositioned loading messages, and updated button labels and colors for improved usability and clarity.
  • User Management: Bulk Permission Management lets the admin assign permissions to multiple objects at once, with implicit permissions and improved control.
  • User Federation: LDAP configuration fields have been moved from the Identity Provider UI to the User Federation UI, streamlining the process and improving federation settings management.
  • Data Retention: Data retention management in HyperScale now supports NFS-based storage for simplified data archival, along with improved retention policies, automated scheduling, and enhanced auditing features for more efficient data management.
  • Data storage: Enhancements to the Hot, Warm, and Archive data storage tabs now display memory utilization with color-coded levels and a new Show System Tables option to view hidden internal tables.
  • Data Model: The vuSmartMaps Metric API offers a unified interface for efficient data retrieval, supporting flexible time range queries, dynamic filtering, and column-specific queries, tailored for use cases like LAMA (Log Analytics and Monitoring Application).
  • Journey Workbench (JWB): Journey Workbench (JWB) 1.0 offers a centralized dashboard for business observability in Payment Journeys, with customizable attributes, drill-down storyboards, dynamic UTM generation, and multi-tenancy support for secure, tailored views.
  • Sizing Calculator: The Sizing Calculator helps users estimate the required vCPUs, memory, storage, and pricing for vuSmartMaps, enabling better resource planning and cost management.
  • Streamlined Data Summarization and Roll-Ups: The TTL Roll-Up Methodology summarizes historical data at regular intervals to reduce storage needs, speed up queries, and simplify analysis, with an automated script for easy setup.

NG 2.13

🗓️ ⏱️ 17 min read

Overview​

We are thrilled to introduce our latest release, packed with updates that improve security, usability, and performance across vuSmartMaps. This sprint focuses on enhanced data access control, streamlined configurations, improved log analytics, and advanced debugging tools. Key highlights include Captcha for secure login, refined password management, upgraded alert workflows and enhanced observability with OTEL integration. Additionally, We fixed security issues, improved file checks, added rate limits, and enhanced security. Users can enjoy a more secure, efficient, and insightful experience with these updates.

Key Highlights​

  • Configurations & Preferences: Enhanced Email, ITSM, and integration settings with new test features, real-time configuration feedback, and upfront validation of credentials and target system access before initiating data ingestion and distribution.
  • Application Security and VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing) fixes: We conducted a security scan on vuSmartMaps services, fixed vulnerabilities and updated libraries. VAPT fixes - added file upload checks, rate limiters, CSP headers, and anti-hijacking measures to enhance system security and performance.
  • NoC Storyboard: The improved NoC Storyboard in vuSmartMaps™ ensures faster issue resolution with real-time Infra O11ySource insights.
  • UTM: Updated with relevant product icons for easier understanding of running services and optimized query execution to show map insights in seconds.
  • vuApp360: Added column filtering for Trace Details and integrated OTEL for real-time monitoring of RED metrics.
  • Log Analytics: Introduced a feature to restrict table visibility, ensuring access is limited to authorized users for enhanced security and control.
  • Accessing vuSmartMaps: Implemented Captcha for secure login. Strengthened user authentication by requiring the current password during the password change process.
  • Alerts Configuration: The Microsoft Teams Groups field is now a multi-select dropdown with prepopulated distribution groups, eliminating the need for manual entry, simplifying alert configuration, and reducing the risk of errors.
  • Alert Console: The Ticket ID on the alert details page in the Alert Console is now a clickable link, providing quick access to the ticket in the ITSM tool.
  • ContextStreams: Enhanced debugging features with a new interface, integrated WebSocket support for real-time data streams, and simplified resource management to improve performance and scalability.
  • O11ySources: Pipeline data is now managed in a well-formatted JSON format, improving readability, troubleshooting, and organization while maintaining compressed exports.
  • Data Retention: Simplified data retention with clearer categories and improved UI for easier configuration.