v.171 Release Notes
Last updated on 27 March, 2024Highlights
- Feature Highlights: Create new log pipelines and log alert conditions using log queries. New monitoring for service-level AWS ECS Container Insights metrics and Palo Alto SD-WAN sites and elements. New EA and GD Collector releases.
- General Updates: Expanded support for the PagerDuty EU API URLs. For LM Cloud, updated AWS CloudWatch metric timestamps.
- Updated Monitoring: New modules to monitor AWS Backups, to support Telnet in Common Configs, and to add self-monitoring for Kubernetes KSM, and more.
Feature Highlights
Log Pipeline and Log Alert Conditions Improvements
You can now use the Logs Query Language when creating log pipelines and log alert conditions. Log queries allow you to filter and parse events using logical operators and log metadata values. Log pipeline and log alert creation now opens in a panel at the bottom of the Logs page instead of in a popup modal.
AWS ECS ContainerInsights Updates
We moved the service-level AWS ECS ContainerInsights DataSource to a new multi-instance DataSource, AWS ECS ContainerInsights Service. We added Dynamic Thresholds on each of the complex datapoints, and enabled Dynamic Thresholds on the existing complex Datapoints in all existing ECS DataSources. For more information see LogicModule Releases.
New Palo Alto SD-WAN Monitoring
We released a new suite of modules for Palo Alto SD-WAN (formerly CloudGenix SD-WAN) monitoring sites and traffic they generate, as well as CloudGenix SD-WAN elements (or devices) and their statuses. For more information, see Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN Monitoring.
New Collector Releases
EA Collector 32.100
EA Collector 32.100 released on 3 June 2022. This collector release contains improvements to Netscan policies for scanning CIDR ranges. For the full list of updates, see EA Collector 32.100 Release Notes.
GD Collector 32.000
GD Collector 32.000 was released on 3 June 2022 and is based on the previously released EA Collector 31.200. For the full list of updates, see GD Collector 32.000 Release Notes.
General Updates
Alerting
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where multiple SMS notifications were being sent even though alerts were cleared.
Dashboards
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented the SLA Dashboard widget from rendering properly if it contained special characters.
LM Cloud
Enhancements
- For AWS CloudWatch data, updated metric timestamps to match the timestamps seen in AWS CloudWatch.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug in the Azure Integration setup that displayed a blank screen when users clicked the Get Subscription button on the permissions page.
LM Integrations
Enhancements
- We have expanded support for the PagerDuty EU API URLS. Now you can use a PagerDuty URL Region that you prefer for the integration.
LM Logs
Known Issues
- The Clear on Acknowledge function is not intuitive when adding log alert conditions. The Auto Clear after setting will clear alerts after the specified time in minutes, even if the toggle is off. Alerts will only be acknowledge if the toggle for the setting is on.
Push Metrics
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue in the OpenMetrics DataSource Wizard that prevented you from resizing columns.
LogicModule Releases
New and updated LogicModules are available for you to import from the LogicMonitor Public Repository. This section lists the LogicModules that are new in this release, updated in this release, or will be removed in a future release. Changes related to the LogicModule feature will be listed under General Updates.
New LogicModules
| LogicModule Name | Details |
| (2 ConfigSources) Telnet_Interactive_Dynamic Telnet_Interactive_Standard (1 PropertySource) ConfigCheck_5_Telnet | Added Telnet support for Common Configs. Added Telnet Common Config check and updated AppliesTo of other common config checks to take it into account. See Updated LogicModules for more Common Config improvements. |
| (3 DataSources) AWS_Backup_Protected_Resources AWS_Backup_Vaults_1h AWS_Backup_Vaults_24h | New monitoring for AWS backups. |
| (1 DataSource) AWS_ECS_ContainerInsights_Service | New module to provide service level metrics for AWS ECS Containers. See Updated LogicModules and Deprecated LogicModules for related changes to AWS_ECS_* DataSources. |
| (2 DataSources) Kubernetes_KSM Kubernetes_KSM_Resources (1 PropertySource) selfMonitor_KubernetesKSM | New Kubernetes self-monitoring for kube state metrics (KSM). See Updated LogicModules for related PropertySource. |
| (4 DataSources) PaloAlto_SDWAN_Elements PaloAlto_SDWAN_Site_Performance PaloAlto_SDWAN_Site_WANLinkQuality PaloAlto_SDWAN_WatchDog (1 EventSource) PaloAlto_SDWAN_SiteEvents (1 PropertySource) addCategory_PaloAlto_SDWAN | New coverage for Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN (formerly known as CloudGenix SD-WAN). |
Updated LogicModules
| LogicModule Name | Details |
| (8 ConfigSources) SCP_Dynamic SCP_Standard SFTP_Dynamic SFTP_Standard SSH_Exec_Dynamic SSH_Exec_Standard SSH_Interactive_Dynamic SSH_Interactive_Standard (13 PropertySources) ConfigCheck_1_SFTP ConfigCheck_2_SCP ConfigCheck_3_Exec ConfigCheck_4_Interactive Config_Arista_Generic Config_Aruba_Generic Config_Brocade_Generic Config_Fortinet_Generic Config_HPE_Generic Config_Juniper_Generic Config_Netscaler_Generic Config_PaloAlto_Generic Config_Sophos_Generic | Common Config improvements to Active Discovery. Improved Common Config filters for timestamps. Updated timeouts for all “common ConfigSources” to make better use of available execution time. |
| (3 DataSources) AWS_ECS_ClusterServices AWS_ECS_ContainerInsights_TaskFamily | Enabled dynamic thresholds and other general improvements. See New LogicModules and Deprecated LogicModules for related changes to AWS_ECS_* DataSources |
| (1 DataSource) Cisco_Multicast_Groups | Removed unused code. |
| (1 DataSource) Cisco_Wireless_AP | Added explicit timeouts to SNMP walks to prevent timeouts on slower devices. |
| (8 DataSources) Dell_Compellent_Controller_Fans Dell_Compellent_Controller_PowerSupply Dell_Compellent_Controller_Temperature Dell_Compellent_Controller_Voltage Dell_Compellent_SC_EnclosurePower Dell_Compellent_SC_Fans Dell_Compellent_SC_IOModules Dell_Compellent_SC_Temperature | Fixed an issue in Active Discovery regex filter that prevented instances from being discovered. |
| (17 DataSources) DellEMC_XtremIO_BBU DellEMC_XtremIO_Clusters DellEMC_XtremIO_ConsistencyGroups DellEMC_XtremIO_DAEControllers DellEMC_XtremIO_DAEPSU DellEMC_XtremIO_DataProtectionGroups DellEMC_XtremIO_InfiniBandSwitches DellEMC_XtremIO_Initiators DellEMC_XtremIO_SSD DellEMC_XtremIO_Snapshots DellEMC_XtremIO_StorageControllerLocalDisks DellEMC_XtremIO_StorageControllerPowerSupplies DellEMC_XtremIO_StorageControllerStats DellEMC_XtremIO_Targets DellEMC_XtremIO_Volumes DellEMC_XtremIO_XEnvironments DellEMC_XtremIO_XMS | Reduced overall API calls by switching to batch versions of calls. Updated graphs, general cleanup, and rewrote modules as snippets for maintainability. |
| (9 DataSources) HP_3PAR_CPG HP_3PAR_Controller HP_3PAR_Disk HP_3PAR_HardwareHealth HP_3PAR_Port HP_3PAR_VLUN_by_Host HP_3PAR_VLUN_by_Volume HP_3PAR_Volumes HP_3PAR_iSCSI | The HPE 3PAR suite has been rewritten to parse output dynamically to ensure correct data collection regardless of output formatting (hardcoded fallback remains for situations that cannot be parsed dynamically). Made improvements to graphs and maintainability using snippets. Note: Requires the collector to run groovy scripts in agent, groovy.script.runner=agent in collector configuration file agent.conf. For more information, see Editing the Collector Configuration Files. Data loss will occur for battery and PSU instances in HP_3PAR_HardwareHealth. Instances previously had naming collisions causing monitoring to be incomplete |
| (4 DataSources) Kubernetes_KSM_Daemonsets Kubernetes_KSM_PersistentVolumes Kubernetes_KSM_Replicasets Kubernetes_KSM_Statefulsets | Updated display names to match style guidelines. |
| (1 DataSource) Microsoft_SQLServer_AlwaysOnAvailabilityReplicas | Updated status code mapping for operating_status datapoint. |
| (1 DataSource) PaloAlto_FW_IPSecTunnelStats | Fixed an issue in the query command. |
| (1 DataSource) PaloAlto_FW_Certificates | Added try and catch for certificate check. |
| (3 DataSources) Rubrik_Node_Drives Rubrik_Node_Statistics Rubrik_Storage_UnmanagedObjects | Fixed an issue in the parameters passed to HTTP function call which caused the script to fail. |
| (1 DataSource) SNMP_Network_Interfaces | Removed MAC address to prevent interfaces without associated MAC addresses from being excluded. Made Topology improvements. |
| (1 DataSource) VMware_VCSA_CPU | Removed debug print statement. |
| (1 DataSource) WinIf- (1 PropertySource) addERI_Windows | Made Topology improvements. |
| (1 PropertySource) addCategory_KubernetesKSM | Expanded Kubernetes monitoring to include self-monitoring for kube state metrics. See New LogicModules for related monitoring updates. |
| (1 PropertySource) addCategory_Ruckus_SZ | Expanded API version support. |
| (1 PropertySource) addCategory_snmpUptime | Expanded appliesTo to include Netscaler devices. |
| (2 PropertySources) addERI_Cisco addERI_F5 | Updated topology tags for F5 and Cisco devices. |
| (1 PropertySource) addERI_NetApp | Fixed a namespace script error. |
| (1 PropertySource) Microsoft_SQLServer_Connections | Fixed an issue that caused manual instances to be ignored. Added handling for blank or missing mssql.integrated_security device property. |
| (1 TopologySource) Networking_L2_snmpSwitch | Blocked applying a certain LLDP ID OUI matching routine to Araknis devices. |
Deprecated LogicModules
This table lists LogicModules that we are deprecating in this release. This means that these LogicModules will be removed in a future release. If available, a replacement LogicModule is listed. For the history of deprecated modules, see Deprecated LogicModules.
| LogicModule Name Deprecated/Replacement | Details | End of Support Date |
| Deprecated: AWS_ECS_ContainerInsights Replacement: AWS_ECS_ContainerInsights_NoService | Replaced the old module that did not filter services properly and reported intermittent or no data for a number of datapoints. | 06/17/2022 |
Looking Ahead
In this section, you will find announcements about upcoming beta features, updates about ongoing beta features, and information about the end-of-life of existing features.
Troubleshooting WMI Collection Notice
Microsoft published a Windows DCOM Server security feature bypass (CVE-2021-26414) to address vulnerabilities with WMI. You need to first patch the Collector device and then the monitored device to the latest updates to resolve the issue. For more information, see Data Collection Failure due to WMI Vulnerabilities.
MongoDB Collector Type Remove Notice
The future LogicMonitor EA Collector 32.200 release will no longer have MONGO as a separate collector type. Upgrading to this release will remove all “mongo” settings from agent.conf. You can still use other collector types, such as SCRIPT, and DataSources to monitor MongoDB instances. For more information, see MongoDB Monitoring.
Azure China Regions Monitoring Beta
Select users can opt-in and start monitoring their Azure China Cloud accounts. Contact LogicMonitor Support to enable this beta feature for your LogicMonitor portal. After the feature is enabled:
- Add a new Cloud account to be tied to your China-hosted region using the Cloud Account (Legacy) option.
- In the Permissions tab, select the China account checkbox.
- In the Services tab, select the China regions you want to monitor.
If you need additional assistance, contact LogicMonitor Support.
Old Alert Page Removal Notice
Support for the old Alert page (https://accountname.logicmonitor.com/santaba/uiv4/alert) has been removed. Issues related to the old Alert page are no longer being addressed and access to the page will be removed with an upcoming release.
To ensure that you are using the most up-to-date Alerts page, click Alerts in the LogicMonitor Navigation sidebar or append “/uiv4/alerts” to your LogicMonitor URL.