v.172 Release Notes
Last updated on 27 March, 2024Highlights
- Feature Highlights: Expanded coverage for Kubernetes KSM monitoring. EA Collector 32.200 release.
- General Updates: Added support for new OpenZFS and NetApp ONTAP AWS FSx file systems, tracking for website usage in Account Information, logs collection support to Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes-based OpenTelemetry Collector installations, and more.
- Updated Monitoring: New modules to monitor Azure Databrick, Azure resource health, and Kubernetes KSM-based jobs, cronjobs, and deployments.
Feature Highlights
Expanded Kubernetes KSM Monitoring
You can now use new Kubernetes monitoring modules that are based on the kubestatemetrics (KSM) service and the Summary API. This improves the performance of the monitoring services by offering a wider coverage. The new modules are prefixed by “Kubernetes_KSM” and replace existing modules for monitoring pods, deployments, and nodes. For more information, see New LogicModules
Recommendation: Install the new modules for enhanced coverage and performance. A sunset plan will be announced for existing modules in an upcoming release.
New Collector Release
EA Collector 32.200 was released on June 27, 2022.
- This Collector release expands the CyberArk credential vault integration to support CyberArk dual account, eliminating delays such as password rotation that may be encountered when using CyberArk single account.
- Upgrading to this release will remove all “mongo” settings from agent.conf because MONGO will no longer be supported as a separate collector type. You can still use other collector types, such as SCRIPT, as well as DataSources to monitor MongoDB instances.
For more information, see EA Collector 32.200 Release Notes.
General Updates
Alerting
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused suppressed alerts triggered multiple simultaneous notifications.
LM Cloud
Enhancements
- Added support for new OpenZFS and NetApp ONTAP AWS FSx file systems.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented Azure Backup Jobs from being discovered.
LM Logs
Enhancements
- Added support for logs collection on Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes-based OpenTelemetry Collector installations.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused the LM Logs Logstash plugin to ignore HTTP configuration items and run with default HTTP settings.
NetFlow
Enhancements
- The NetFlow Traffic threshold-based alerting feature is now available for beta participants in production environments; however, the feature must be enabled. If you would like to participate, contact your customer success manager (CSM) for more information.
OpenTelemetry
Enhancements
- Added a column to the OpenTelemetry Collectors page to display the Type, which can be Traces or Logs.
User Interface
Enhancements
- You can now track your website usage against the committed number of websites and view this information in your Accounts Information page. For more information, see Limits, Quotas, and Contraints.
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 |
| (3 DataSources) Kubernetes_KSM_Jobs Kubernetes_KSM_Cronjobs Kubernetes_KSM_Deployments | New monitoring coverage for Kubernetes KSM-based jobs, cronjobs, and deployments. |
| (3 DataSources) Microsoft_Azure_Databrick_App Microsoft_Azure_Databrick_AppExecutor Microsoft_Azure_Databrick_Cluster | New Monitoring for Azure Databrick. |
| (1 EventSource) Azure Resource Health | New monitoring for Azure resource health events. |
| (1 PropertySource) addCategory_EMC_VNX | New PropertySource to add system category automatically. Also adds a new property (auto.emc.cache) to identify which types of cache are used by the device and apply the appropriate module(s) accordingly. |
| (1 PropertySource) addCategory_OverrideNoSnmpIf | New PropertySource to override the previous NoSnmpIf system category. |
| (1 PropertySource) addERI_Meraki_Device | Expanded topology support for more granular identification of device types. |
Updated LogicModules
| LogicModule Name | Details |
| (5 ConfigSources) SCP_Standard SFTP_Standard SSH_Exec_Standard SSH_Interactive_Standard Telnet_Interactive_Standard | Common configs now use a time filter to try and catch prompt lines with embedded timecodes. |
| (1 DataSource) AWS_EBS | Added two complex datapoints – VolumeThroughputPercentage and VolumeIOPSPercentage. |
| (1 DataSource) AWS_Glue_Job | Made corrections to metric paths. |
| (1 DataSource) Cisco_DNAC_Devices | Updated to include additional handling for empty responses and more robust pagination support. |
| (1 DataSource) Cisco_IPSec_AggregateTunnels | Added optional host property – cisco.ipsec.aggtun.threadpoolsize – to allow for threaded SNMP walk execution (allowed range 1-10), and null value bailout for asciiConverterI(). |
| (15 DataSources) Cisco_Meraki_APIUsage Cisco_Meraki_AccessPoint_Interfaces Cisco_Meraki_AccessPoints Cisco_Meraki_DeviceCount Cisco_Meraki_Gateway_Interfaces Cisco_Meraki_Gateways Cisco_Meraki_Licenses Cisco_Meraki_Licensing Cisco_Meraki_OrgDeviceCount Cisco_Meraki_SecurityAppliance_Interfaces Cisco_Meraki_SecurityAppliances Cisco_Meraki_Switches Cisco_Meraki_Troubleshooter Cisco_Meraki_UplinkApplianceStatus Cisco_Meraki_UplinkLossAndLatency (4 PropertySources) addCategory_Meraki_API addERI_Device addERI_Meraki addERI_Meraki_Org (2 TopologySources) Meraki_Cloud_Topology Meraki_Org_Topology | Updated modules to use v1 of the Meraki API (except for Cisco_Meraki_Licensing which provides data that is not currently available in v1). Fixed a bad value range in the status datapoint in Cisco_Meraki_UplinkApplianceStatus. Added missing timing variables in the *Interfaces modules. |
| (1 DataSource) CiscoQoS- | Improved instances by adding descriptions and new instance properties. |
| (2 DataSources) Dell_PowerConnect_Interfaces SNMP_Network_Interfaces (1 PropertySource) addCategory_Dell_PowerConnect | Added a tech note to Dell_PowerConnect_Interfaces to warn that this module will be deprecated in the near future in favor of SNMP_Network_Interfaces. Changed datapoints inOctets and outOctets from counter to derive. Dell_PowerConnect_Interfaces was initially developed to address discovery-based indexing issues that were seen in PowerConnect environments and caused collection issues where duplicate interface descriptions existed. This has since been addressed in SNMP_Network_Interfaces which also includes stability fixes in larger environments. To transition from Dell_PowerConnect_Interfaces to SNMP_Network_Interfaces, you should import the latest versions of all 4 modules mentioned in this release so that the proper DataSources are applied. Once SNMP_Network_Interfaces is applied and data collection confirmed, Dell_PowerConnect_Interfaces should be disabled. For more information, see Disabling Monitoring for a DataSource. |
| (8 DataSources) EMC_DiskPerformance_NaviSecCli EMC_EnclosureEnvironment_NaviSecCli EMC_FastCache_NaviSecCli EMC_SPCache_NaviSecCli EMC_SPPerformance_NaviSecCli EMC_SPStatus_NaviSecCli EMC_StoragePool_NaviSecCli EMC_SystemPower_NaviSecCli | Updated appliesTo for EMC_FastCache_NaviSecCli and EMC_SPCache_NaviSecCli using new property. A fallback has been added to ensure that devices that have not had the new PropertySource run on them will not experience historical data loss when updating. Additional updates to bring all modules in package to current standards. |
| (1 DataSource) Kubernetes_KSM_Daemonsets | Added new datapoints for readyreplicas. |
| (1 DataSource) Kubernetes_Service | Fixed headless service alerts. |
| (1 DataSource) Microsoft_SQLServer_Databases | Updated to handle datapoints db_row_size, db_max_row_size and db_log_max_size correctly. Some datapoints remain for backwards compatibility with older versions of SQL server that do not have performance counters. |
| (1 DataSource) Microsoft_Windows_Cluster_Disks | Removed undefined cluster disks and duplicate disks. |
| (1 DataSource) NetApp_Cluster_Nodes (1 TopologySource) NetApp_Cluster_Topology | Fixed node topology for NetApp clusters. |
| (1 DataSource) PaloAlto_FW_Certificates | Added support for Azure certificates. |
| (1 DataSource) PaloAlto_SDWAN_Site_WANLinkQuality | Updated tags for improved searchability. |
| (5 DataSources) SaaS_Zoom_RoomIssues SaaS_Zoom_RoomStatus SaaS_Zoom_UserStats Saas_Zoom_MeetingQos Saas_Zoom_ServiceStatus | Updated display names and alert messages. |
| (6 DataSources) Ubiquiti_UniFi_AccessPoints Ubiquiti_UniFi_Clients_Wired Ubiquiti_UniFi_Clients_Wireless Ubiquiti_UniFi_Security_Gateways Ubiquiti_UniFi_Sites Ubiquiti_UniFi_Switches | Added support for user-defined port via the optional host property unifi.port. If you are using a port other than 8443 for API access and have been relying on HTTPS with no port specified in the URL to redirect API calls correctly, you will need to set this property before importing to prevent data loss. |
| (4 DataSources) VMware_VeloCloud_EdgeHealth VMware_VeloCloud_EdgeLinkEventQuality VMware_VeloCloud_EdgeLinkHealth VMware_VeloCloud_EdgeLinkMetrics | Updated tags for improved searchability. Changed Active Discovery to automatically delete instances that are not discovered. Data retention is set for 30 days, so will aliases (Edge Names) that are rediscovered within 30 days will have historical data populated. Edges and links that have not sent data for the last 30 days will not have historical data retained. |
| (6 DataSources) Win_HyperV_CPU Win_HyperV_VirtualMachines Win_HyperV_VirtualNetworkAdapter Win_HyperV_VirtualStorage Win_HyperV_VirtualSwitchPorts Win_HyperV_VirtualSwitches | Updated Powershell scripts to handle password strings better. |
| (1 EventSource) PaloAlto_SDWAN_SiteEvents | Removed testing group. |
| (1 PropertySource) addCategory_PaloAlto_SDWAN | Added NetSNMP to system.categories generated and expanded appliesTo to be case insensitive match. |
| (2 PropertySources) addERI_SilverPeak addERI_SilverPeak_Orchestrator (1 TopologySource) SilverPeak_Orchestrator_Topology | Updated tags for improved searchability. |
| (1 PropertySource) Config_Aruba_Generic | Added a new filter to Aruba configs. |
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 |
| Deprecation: CiscoMem- Cisco_FTD_Memory Replacement: Cisco_MemoryPools_SNMP | Created a new Cisco memory module that merges existing Cisco memory modules. Added support for monitoring cisco-enhanced-mempool MIB. | 07/08/2022 |
| Deprecation: EMC_SystemDiags_NaviSecCli Replacement: N/A | This module was creating instances to store system properties. The data provided by these instances is now available through addCategory_EMC_VNX. | 07/08/2022 |
| Deprecation: Cisco_Meraki_Switch_Interfaces Replacement: N/A | This DataSource experiences monitoring data gaps and API timeouts that affect the functionality of other Cisco Meraki DataSources and should be deleted or disabled. Switch connection status and client count remain available via the Cisco_Meraki_Switches Datasource. | 08/05/2022 |
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.
Azure Site Recovery and Backups Beta
You will be able to trial our expanded monitoring for Azure Site Recovery and Backups in an upcoming LogicMonitor release.
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.