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Welcome to the release notes for Virtana. The visible and not-so-visible parts of Virtana are updated regularly. This page highlights the new features and enhancements.

This month's release includes enhancements in the following products:

This month's release includes the following enhancements:

Show Logs in the Context of Alerts

Alert Details now include Logs alongside Topology, allowing users to view relevant logs and traces directly within an alert. This eliminates the need to switch tools, enables faster root cause analysis, reduces MTTR, and improves troubleshooting efficiency across supported entities such as VMware, network, storage, and syslog (where available).

To learn more, see Working with Alerts

Test Alert Intelligence and Response Policies (Sandbox)

A new Sandbox mode allows users to test alert policies against existing alerts before activation. Users can view matching alerts, validate action-specific criteria, and test alert responses (such as notifications). Sandbox testing is for validation only—policies apply only to new alerts once enabled.

To learn more, see Alert Intelligence Policies

Global View Alerts Dashboard – Widget Filtering by Integration

The Global View Alerts Dashboard now displays only the alert widgets relevant to the products integrated with Global View. For example, SO-only environments show only SO-related alert widgets, while IO- or CO-only environments display widgets specific to their respective integrations. This ensures a clearer, more relevant alert view without introducing new dashboards.

To learn more, see Alert Dashboard

SO Documentation Support in Copilot

Copilot is enhanced to answer user questions using Service Observability (SO) documentation. Existing SO docs are ingested into the Copilot knowledge base, enabling immediate support without waiting for the full documentation merge.

To learn more, see Service Observability Alerts by Systems

User Profile Default Landing Page Options for SO

Users can now configure a default landing page for Service Observability (SO) from their profile, selecting from supported static pages. Custom dashboards can also be offered as landing page options through a query-based mechanism. During onboarding, default landing page preferences can be synced from SO to Global View (GV) as part of customer migration.

To learn more, see Service Observability Alerts by Systems

Trace Topology Across Hybrid Infrastructure

Trace topology now supports visibility across hybrid environments, including both instrumented and un-instrumented services. Instrumented services provide detailed metrics, logs, and traces, while un-instrumented services are intelligently modelled within trace paths based on their interactions with monitored components. This delivers a more complete end-to-end view of service dependencies and system behaviour for improved troubleshooting and analysis.

To learn more, see Viewing Trace Services

Discover Jobs from Programs

This release introduces Discover Jobs from Programs, which provides centralised visibility into AI training workloads by automatically identifying and constructing training jobs from observed program activity. The feature discovers globally unique jobs when new programs are detected, copies relevant metrics from programs into the corresponding job, and establishes relationships with associated programs and GPU resources.

Custom Dashboards

This release introduces customizable dashboards that allow users to create and manage views of critical business performance, cost, and capacity metrics. Users can define dashboard names, select data sources (IO, CO, SO, GV), and configure filters, aggregations, and transformations to tailor insights to their needs.

To learn more, see Custom Dashboard

OVA-Based Deployment for Global View

This release adds support for OVA-based deployment of Global View to simplify onboarding for customers running virtualized environments. Users can now install and uninstall Global View as a virtual machine on OpenShift and Nutanix, reducing deployment complexity and accelerating time-to-value. The installation workflow automatically validates required prerequisites—such as namespaces and permissions—before proceeding, helping ensure a smooth and reliable setup.

To learn more, see Openshift Integration

This month's release includes the following enhancements:

Reports and Chart

In the Reports and Chart and UI areas, the following updates have been added:

  • Top N and Inventory Table charts: You can now filter data using a single metric. The supported filter operators are Above, Below, Equals, and In Between.

  • Entity Management: You can now delete custom properties. Before deletion, the system checks all instances to verify whether the custom property is currently in use.

To learn more, see Reports

Alarm

For the Alarm areas, the following updates have been added:

  • Single Metric Dynamic alarm rule type is now integrated with the new alarms engine. This rule type is available as a beta feature and is disabled by default. To enable it, install the histogramming service and turn on the feature using the appropriate UI service property. For detailed instructions, refer to the Single Metric Dynamic

  • Case Investigations: You can now manually delete old investigation documents and results. Additionally, a Delete if older than option has been added.

To learn more, see, Alarms and Cases

Pure Integration

The following enhancements have been added:

  • Network Interface Metrics: Ethernet CRC and Frame Error counts have been added.

  • Pure1 API: The Load Metric Max Value can now be retrieved from the Pure1 API.

  • Pure FlashArray: The Controller Mode attribute has been added.

  • Pure FlashArray Queues: Three new queue metrics have been introduced:

    • Queue_usec_per_mirrored_write_op

    • Queue_usec_per_read_op

    • Queue_usec_per_write_op

ProbeSW integration

The ProbeSW integration has been updated with new features:

  • A metric for the number of used and available ports per SAN Switch.

  • New Metrics added for SAN Switch Entity:

    • Total configured FC Ports

    • Online Ports

    • Free FC Ports

    • The above metrics are collected via SNMP.

  • An update to the All SAN Switch Entity Type to link the port usage metrics.

PowerMax integration

  • Starting with version 2026.4.1, PowerMax initiator names will be resolved to device alias or zone alias names.

  • This replaces the raw WWN-based identifiers with more meaningful names.

  • This name resolution is applied only when Cisco or Brocade switches are discovered in IO.

  • This name update happens every 24 hours. If the name is not updated on the day of install, then it will be updated the next day when the schedule runs again

Default WinRM Setting for Hyper-V

The com.vi.hyperv.winRM property is now enabled (true) by default. Since WinRM is required for the vast majority of Hyper-V installations, enabling it by default aligns with common deployment needs and helps reduce configuration issues and related support cases.

ProbeVM integration

In the ProbeVM integration for ESX, a Power-On status metric has been added for virtual machines and is now available at the ESX Host and ESX Cluster entity levels.

KVM Deployment Support

Added a supported deployment image for running Infrastructure Observability on KVM infrastructures. No functional changes were made to the existing KVM integration.

Nutanix integration

Support for Nutanix v4 (Prism Central) is provided as a beta release.

Security and Core Component Updates

With this release, several Infrastructure Observability core components have been updated to address security enhancements and align with the latest available versions. Updates to core components will continue across multiple release cycles. Core OS Upgrade: Starting with the 2026.4.1 release, the Core OS upgrade is generally available (GA). This is an in-place upgrade and is performed in the same way as a standard IO update, using a UPD bundle uploaded to the IO instance. All future update bundles will include and apply the Core OS upgrade by default.

Note

For this release, the Operating System Upgrade is contained in a separate release upgrade package that will upgrade the operating system and IO at the same time.

Automatic Job Discovery from AI Workloads

This release introduces unified “Job” visibility by automatically grouping related program executions into a single logical entity, enabling end-to-end tracking of AI training workloads. It provides consolidated metrics, timelines, and GPU associations at the job level to help you quickly identify failures, performance bottlenecks, and resource utilization trends.

Scheduling and Time Range Options for Reports

Added a new option as ‘Every Month First Day' in the ‘Run’ combo box. On selecting this, the reports will run on the first day of every month. Also, the “Previous Month’ option is added in the "Interval" combo box. On selecting this, the report time range will be the previous full month. Example: From 1st Day of Previous Month 12 AM to 1st day of current month 12 AM of appliance timezone.

To learn more, see Report

Power Your AI Agents with IO Data

  • New MCP Server: Integrate Infrastructure Observability with your AI workflows using the industry-standard Model Context Protocol (MCP).

  • Context-Aware AI: Securely expose real-time metrics, inventory, and schema data to your AI agents.

  • Quick Setup: Configure LLM access in seconds from Settings > AI Configuration.

To learn more, see AI Configuration

This month's release includes enhancements in the following products:

This month's release includes the following enhancements:

Dynatrace Integration Enhancements

You can implement the Dynatrace and Virtana Platform integration as a fully programmatic, API-driven connection, giving you flexibility and automation. This means you won't need to use a graphical user interface (GUI) during the initial configuration.

For more information, see: Configuring Dynatrace IntegrationsConfiguring Dynatrace Integrations

Cost Governance Enhancements

You can now further define Cost Meter Cards and resource groups based on:

  • Custom properties

  • Application-level associations

For more information, see: Editing Cost Meter Cards

Alerts generated in IO are not synced to GV.

For IO integrations in the 2026.2.1 release, VCS version 2.2.3 is required. The bundled VCS 2.2.2 in IO 2026.2.1 contains an alarm synchronization issue and must be upgraded to 2.2.3.

Welcome to the Virtana Infrastructure Observability (IO) 2026.2.1 release!

This release includes updates to several core components, providing security enhancements and bringing them to their latest versions. These core component updates will continue for several releases.

Additionally, this release includes the following enhancements:

Reports and Charts updates

In Reports, Stacked Bar charts are now available as a chart type for the Top N chart family. You can select a specific granularity for individual charts when rendering graphs. The selected granularity applies only to the configured chart, enabling multiple charts within the same report to use different granularity levels.

Alarm configuration updates

We've made two improvements to the Alarms > Rules feature:

  • Easier rule setup with duplication: If you need a new alarm rule that is similar to an existing one, you can now use the new Copy Rule option to instantly duplicate any rule. It automatically copies the entity, metric, and evaluation settings, allowing you to make small, necessary adjustments before saving the new rule.

  • A clearer, more informative interface: The Alarms > Rules screen has been updated for better readability and information display. You can now see details such as configured metrics, threshold values, and evaluation time windows on the main screen, which simplifies quick reviews. Additionally, you can easily export this rule data to a CSV file or copy it to your Clipboard.

Enhanced integrations

We've improved several integrations by adding new attributes and metrics:

  • NetApp ONTAP: Share-level inode metrics have been added.

  • Linux: Now includes a new Committed Memory metric and timeout flags for command sets.

  • The Version property is now available for the following integrations:

    • IBM Modular (Cluster, Node, Controller)

    • NetApp (Cluster, Array)

    • Dell PowerScale (Array, Cluster)

    • Dell PowerStore (Cluster, Appliance)

New Uptime metric

The Uptime metric has been added for:

  • Infinidat (Array)

  • Pure FlashArray

  • Dell PowerScale (Cluster, Array, Node)

Dell PowerStore improvements

We've added CPU Utilization and Caching Media metrics.

HPE Primera and Alletra updates

Capacity-related metrics have been updated, and aggregation logic has been refined for better alignment with native UI values.

Note for VMAX/PowerMax users:

When using VMAX/PowerMax Unisphere version 10.0 or later, the following property values are no longer available:

  • Total Allocated Capacity

  • SRP SLO Demands

  • SRP Storage Group Demand

This month's release includes the following enhancements:

Trace Topology

The new trace-based topology view lets you focus on a specific service and visualise its direct and indirect interactions across your hybrid environment (on-premises and cloud). This makes it easier to understand service dependencies, troubleshoot issues, and analyse request flows.

Trace RCA Alerts

Introduces a new alert type with built-in root cause analysis (RCA) for application performance issues. Trace RCA Alerts correlate distributed traces with related logs and infrastructure metrics to identify the root cause of application slowdowns accurately.

Idle Kubernetes Pods

Adds a new widget to the Cluster Overview Dashboard that highlights underutilised Kubernetes pods, helping optimise resource usage.

    This month's release includes enhancements in the following products:

    This month's release includes the following enhancements:

    Enhanced Copilot for Intelligent Alert Policy Generation

    • Improved NLP models for more accurate auto-generation of alert intelligence and response policies.

    • Copilot better interprets user intent, criteria, and entities, producing policies that closely match operational requirements.

    • Enhanced guidance and validation for higher-quality, ready-to-use policies with less manual adjustment.

    For more details, see Generate Policy with Copilot in Alert Intelligence and Generate Policy with Copilot in Alert Response.

    Dark Theme Support

    • Full Light and Dark theme support, including new design tokens for colors, typography, spacing, shadows, and component styles.

    • Theme toggle in the user menu, with user preference persistence across sessions.

    • Consistent, accessible, and UX approved visuals in both themes.

    Display IO Appliance Last Data Collection Time

    The Global View interface now displays the last data collection time for IO appliances.

    CO Alerts Metric Graph Unit Conversion Enhancement

    Improved unit conversion for metric graphs in Container Observability alerts.

    OOB Action Workflow

    Volume resizing through StackStorm action is now supported as an out-of-the-box workflow.

    Welcome to the Virtana Infrastructure Observability (IO) 2025.12.1 release!

    This release includes updates to several core components, providing security enhancements and bringing them to their latest versions. These core component updates will continue for several releases.

    Additionally, this release includes the following enhancements:

    New metrics for Hitachi Content Platform

    Several new properties and metrics have been added to the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Integration, focusing on the Node, Tenant, and Namespace areas.

    For more information, see the HCP 1.0 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal

    New metrics for Hitachi NAS System Integration

    Several new metrics have been added to the Hitachi NAS System Integration, focusing on Object Storage Replication.

    For more information, see the Hitachi NAS 1.1 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    Updated features for Hitachi VSP Integration

    The Hitachi VSP Integration has been updated to provide discovery and metric collection for Journal Groups and Consistency Groups.

    For more information, see the Hitachi VSP Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal:

    New entities added to Dell Unity Integration

    This update significantly expands the Dell Unity Integration by introducing several new entities: Disks, LUNs, Pools, VVols (both File and Datastore), NAS Server, and the array itself. Furthermore, metric updates have been implemented to include capacity, performance, and utilization data for specific entities, along with the addition of new properties.

    For more information, see the Dell Unity User Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal

    New metrics for Dell PowerMax Integration

    The Dell PowerMax Integration now includes updated metrics and properties, encompassing Disks, Disk Groups, Volumes, and SFPs. Because of the potentially large number of elements that might be configured on each array, the discovery and collection of metrics for Disks, Disk Groups, and Volumes is disabled by default.

    For more information, see the Dell PowerMax Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New properties for Cisco SAN Switches

    The SAN Switch Integration now collects additional SFP properties, specifically SFP Inventory and Part information, from Cisco SAN Switches. This collection is achieved using the NX-API interface, which must be enabled on the switches.

    For more information, see the Infrastructure Observability 2025.12.1 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New features in the Public API

    The Public API has been updated with several new features:

    • New filtering options, including Case Insensitivity, Starts With, Ends With, and Contains. Regex (regular expression) filtering is available, but disabled by default.

    • Output options for API Data Queries now includes a Top N Table option.

    • Credential Update endpoints for Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switches.

    New editing, importing, and exporting updates in Alarm Configuration

    You can now bulk-edit alarm rules and export/import alarm rules.

    You can now bulk-edit alarm rules in the user interface for the following areas:

    • Set Severity

    • Enable/Disable Rule

    • Enable/Disable SNMP Notifications

    • Add/Remove Email Notifications

    • Add/Remove Defined Actions

    Additionally, you can export and import alarm rules in the user interface. This is similar to the existing Export/Import feature in Report Templates.

    New options in Reports And Charts

    Reports And Charts features the following enhancements:

    • In reports, you can now select a custom time range, including a specific number of days, hours, and minutes. This custom time selection is applied across the entire report, including all charts in the report.

    • When scheduling a report, select the new 'Run Now' option to immediately generate and send a test report. This ensures the report is created and delivered correctly to all configured email recipients.

    New Property Added for VMware

    The system now discovers and captures MAC addresses for both Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports as a new property. This MAC address data is leveraged to visualise the complete end-to-end IP topology - from the ESX host to storage, traversing switches and switch ports - providing a comprehensive view of network connectivity.

    Security and Core Component Updates

    Several Infrastructure Observability core components have been updated to:

    • Apply security patches

    • Upgrade to latest versions

    These core updates will continue across multiple release cycles.

    This month's release includes the following enhancements:

    Confluent Cloud Support

    You can now extend your Azure Cloud integration to include observability for environments using Confluent Cloud. This enhancement enables you to monitor and analyze your Confluent Cloud workloads alongside your existing Azure resources, giving you a unified view of your streaming data infrastructure. For more information, see Collect Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure.

    New Dashboards for Kafka and JVM

    Virtana introduced new dashboards specifically designed for Kafka and JVM. These dashboards provide deeper insights into your Kafka clusters and JVM-based applications, helping you quickly identify issues, optimize resource usage, and ensure your applications run smoothly.

    • Visualize key Kafka metrics, such as broker health, topic throughput, and consumer lag.

    • Monitor JVM performance indicators, including memory usage, garbage collection, and thread activity.

    You can proactively address performance bottlenecks and maintain high availability for your critical services.

    GraphDB Shared Service

    The integration enhancements now include a shared GraphDB service, which reduces the footprint of the “South” collector. This means you benefit from improved resource efficiency and lower infrastructure overhead, making your monitoring environment lighter and more scalable.

    Self-Monitoring Improvements

    Virtana has enhanced cluster health monitoring to give you a clearer picture of how your Virtana instance is performing. Improved self-monitoring tools provide actionable insights into system health, helping you maintain optimal performance and quickly address any issues.

    Container observability in Dark Mode

    Virtana Container Observability now supports the new Virtana Dark Theme. You can switch to dark mode for a more comfortable viewing experience, especially in low-light environments.

    This month's release includes enhancements in the following products:

    This month's release includes the following enhancements:

    Cost meter cards are improved

    These improvements make it easier for you to understand both raw and effective capacity usage so you can better track consumption, optimize resources, and plan more accurately.

    You can do the following with Cost meter cards:

    • Meter card management: You can define meter cards granularly based on Infrastructure Observability (IO) instances and hosts.

    • Enhanced storage capacity visibility: The newly expanded capacity reporting provides you with a clear picture of storage utilization. Along with Actual Used Capacity and Actual Free Capacity, you can view Compressed Values, which provides visibility into post-compression savings for environments using storage efficiency features.

    To learn more, see Creating Cost Meter Cards.

    Topology updates

    The Topology feature is updated with the following improvements:

    • Clustered resource view: You can now view resources in a clustered set on the Topology page, providing a more organized overview.

    • Expanded filters: You can now select up to 10 resources within the filter.

    • Entity-specific drill-down: You can now drill down into the topology of specific entities for more focused analysis.

    • Kubernetes resource hierarchy: You can now view Kubernetes (K8s) resources in a hierarchical structure, improving clarity and understanding of relationships.

    • Automated connectivity discovery: Connectivity between cloud and on-premise resources are automatically discovered, providing a more complete picture of your infrastructure.

    Root cause analysis in Global View

    You can now better perform root cause analysis for service level objectives (SLO) alerts in Global View by showing how services are communicating with each other.

    Welcome to the Virtana Infrastructure Observability (IO) 2025.9.1 release!

    This release includes updates to several core components, providing security enhancements and bringing them to their latest versions. These core component updates will continue for several releases.

    Additionally, this month's release includes the following enhancements:

    API updates

    Single API for inventory data

    Added a new API to provide inventory data for various compute and storage entity types, for example, All Compute Hosts, All IP Switches, and All Storage Arrays. This initial release makes available the same metrics currently displayed in Virtana IO.

    Virtana IO API improvement

    The Virtana IO API is now case-insensitive. Previously, the API contained upper and lower case sensitivity. This improvement now makes it easier to match on hostnames and new endpoints.

    For more information, see the Public API documentation.

    New metrics for Brocade Fiber Channel (FC) switches

    Additional and updated metrics and properties are now in the Fiber Channel Switch Integration for Brocade FC Switches. These changes include updates for environmental details, such as temperature and fan speed.

    The following metrics have been added to support Brocade FC switches. These include:

    • system.fan.speed: Monitors the current fan sensor reading.

    • brocade.san.switch.power.supply.value: Monitors the current power supply sensor reading.

    • system.temperature.value: Monitors the current temperature sensor reading.

    For more information, see the Infrastructure Observability 2025.9.1 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New environmental metrics for Cisco Fiber Channel (FC) switches

    Additional and updated metrics and properties are now in the Fiber Channel Switch Integration for Cisco FC Switches. These changes include updates for environmental details, such as sensor status, temperature, and fan speed.

    The following metrics have been added to support Cisco FC switches:

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_airflow: Represents an Entity Cubic Meters per minute (airflow) Sensor value.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_electric_current: Represents a Cisco Entity Electric Current Sensor value.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_electric_potential_ac: Represents a Cisco Entity Electric Potential AC Sensor value.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_electric_potential_dc: Represents a Cisco Entity Electric Potential AC Sensor value.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_frequency: Represents a Cisco Entity Frequency Sensor value.

    • cisco.fru.total.availablecurrent: Total current available for FRU usage.

    • cisco.fru.total.drawncurrent: Total current drawn by powered-on FRUs.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_relative_humidity: Represents a Cisco Entity Relative Humidity(RH) Sensor value.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_rpm: Represents a Cisco Entity RPM Sensor value.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_Rx_Tx_power: Provides the Rx_Tx power value.

    • cisco_entity_physical_sensor_temperature: Represents a Cisco Entity Temperature Sensor value.

    For more information, see the Infrastructure Observability 2025.9.1 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New environmental metrics for Linux OS Integration

    Additional metrics and properties have been added to the Linux Integration, including filesystem utilization, message queues, memory, swap, and semaphore properties and metrics.

    The following metrics have been added to support Linux OS integration:

    • system.disk.inode.utilization

    • system_linux_individual_SwapArea_Utilization

    • system_linux_loggedInUsers_Pct

    • system_linux_messageQueueIDs_Utilization

    • system_linux_openFileDescriptors_Utilization

    • system_linux_runningProcesses_Pct

    • system_linux_Semaphores_UsedCount

    • system_linux_Semaphores_Utilization

    • system_linux_sharedMemoryIDs_Utilization

    For more information, see the Linux Operating System 3.2 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New metrics for Hitachi Content Platform

    New properties and metrics have been added to the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Integration. These additions enhance the Node, Tenant, and Namespace areas.

    The following metrics have been added to support HCP:

    HCP Node

    • type

    • hardware_type

    • failure_status

    • Label

    • Volume

    • System Name

    • Serial Name

    • Compression %

    • version

    • replication_enabled

    • search_enabled

    • indexed_Volume_Capacity

    • shared_volume_capacity

    • Licensed_Capacity

    HCP Tenant

    • Allow_search

    • allow-versioning

    • allow_replication

    • allowRetentionModeSelection

    HCP NameSpace

    • Soft Quota

    For more information, see the HCP 1.0 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New metrics for Hitachi NAS System Integration

    Several new properties and metrics have been added to the Hitachi Network Attached Storage (NAS) System Integration. These additions focus on networking status and metrics, and include metrics for File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Server Message Block (SMB), Network File System (NFS), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and ethernet.

    For more information, see the Hitachi NAS 1.1Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New metrics for Windows OS Integration

    New properties and metrics have been added to the Windows OS Integration, including Memory, Event Log Counts, and Volume Serial Number.

    For more information, see the Windows Operating System 3.1 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New SFP metrics for Cisco SAN switches

    The SAN Switch Integration now support Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) metric data on Cisco Storage Area Networking (SAN) switches, including light levels, power, and temperature. To collect these metrics, you must enable the NX-API interface on the switches.

    For more information, see the Infrastructure Observability 2025.9.1 Metrics Guide, which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New! Dell PowerProtect Integration

    The new Dell PowerProtect Integration supports customers who use the Dell PowerProtect line of systems in their infrastructure. You can use this integration to help discover hardware components, construct topology views, and deliver data on the health, utilization (including capacity), and performance of these components.

    This release supports properties and metrics for hardware configuration, health, utilization performance and capacity of the systems.

    For more information, see the new Dell PowerProtect guides which you can download in the Virtana Support Portal.

    New! Alarm engine redesigned

    The redesigned Infrastructure Observability Alarm Engine is now available for testing. This updated engine can be installed and run in parallel with the current alarm system, which you can turn on using a specific property. This alarm engine focuses on Single Metric alarms that can use Properties as an evaluation source.

    As a best practice, only use this updated alarm engine in lab or testing environments.

    This month's release includes the following enhancements:

    Amazon CloudWatch for Amazon FSx integration

    The Amazon CloudWatch for Amazon FSx integration automatically discovers Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP instances using AWS credentials. It then ingests CloudWatch metrics into Global View, where they appear alongside existing IO-collected NetApp metrics.

    Here's how it works:

    • Automated discovery: Cloud Gateway uses your AWS credentials to automatically find all FSx instances in your AWS environment, eliminating the need for manual setup.

    • Comprehensive metrics: We combine IO's in-depth NetApp expertise (ONTAP-level metrics) with CloudWatch's infrastructure metrics (cache hit ratios, AWS-specific performance data) for a complete, unified view.

    • Centralized alerting: FSx alerts from both sources are consolidated in Global View's alert dashboard, ensuring proper correlation and context.

    • Seamless integration: The solution uses your existing IO-to-Global View connectivity, requiring no changes to your current workflows.

    This feature is available to existing Virtana customers with AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP deployments who can provide AWS credentials for CloudWatch access and configure the integration using Cloud Gateway.

    Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot cluster support

    Virtana is now recognized as a Google Autopilot partner, so you can deploy Virtana Container Observability on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot clusters. This deployment provides comprehensive visibility into dynamic, containerized workloads running on GKE Autopilot.

    For more information, see Deploy Virtana CO South on GKE Autopilot clusters.

    Improved download support

    You can now export your Kubernetes data to a PDF or CSV file. Previously, you could only export the data that was displayed in the window.

    This month's release includes the following enhancements:

    Virtana Web Analytics

    Admins can now access a unified dashboard that delivers deeper insights into how teams are using the Virtana Platform, including Container Observability. This dashboard tracks user logins, time spent within the platform, and the most frequently accessed features, so decision-makers can assess adoption and measure return on investment.