vRealize Log Insight 4.5 is Now Live!

 

On June 13th, 2017, VMware released vRealize Log Insight 4.5! vRealize Log lnsight delivers heterogeneous and highly scalable log management with intuitive, actionable dashboards, sophisticated analytics and broad third-party extensibility. It provides deep operational visibility and faster troubleshooting across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Below, you can fins a list of what’s new in this release of vRealize Log Insight 4.5!

Server Features

• Added API to query alert execution and notification history
• Added ability to specify basic authentication for webhooks
• New product configuration APIs added
• The source field is maintained when forwarding from vRealize Log Insight forwarder to a vRealize Log Insight server
• Hosts on the /admin/hosts page can now be exported
• Support for external load balancers has been deprecated
• VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) is recommended for vRealize Log Insight. Native AD support is now deprecated. See the following Knowledge Base article for migration information: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2148976

General User Interface Items

• Dashboard legend mouse-over in one widget now highlights corresponding chart items across widgets
• Added ability to show a given time across all dashboard chart widgets simultaneously
• Separate options are available for descriptions and recommendations for user alerts.
• User alert history for aggregation queries now includes count

Agent Items

• Added ability to send unaltered raw syslog to destination server
• Added ability for agent syslog parser to parse structured data (SD), PRI, PROCID, and MSGID syslog fields
• Added auto-update checkbox option on MSI user interface
• Added support for sending logs to multiple destinations
• Added directory wildcard support
• Added support for Photon OS
• Support for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has been deprecated

Content Packs

• Updated General and vSphere content packs
• VSAN and vROps content packs included out of the box