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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.