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What’s New in VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS - June 2023 Release
Our June 2023 VMware Aria Operations for Logs release brings two massive new features many customers have requested. We now support scheduling and running reports from dashboards, and we have enabled federated log querying as a beta feature for customers to try out and give us feedback on! Scheduled Reports If you’re familiar with our reporting capabilities for Aria Operations for Logs on-prem, our SaaS reporting feature is very similar.
Introducing ‘Aria Operations for Logs: Journey to Success’ Learning Path on VMware Tech Zone!
Share on: 0 The VMware Aria Operations tech marketing team has worked hard to deliver a full ‘journey to success’ learning path for Aria Operations for Logs. We have three sections, ‘Getting Started’, ‘Getting more out of’, and ‘Power user’.
Integrating Google VMware Cloud Engine with VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS
With our May release of VMware Aria for Logs SaaS, one of our principal new features is the ability to send logs from Google Cloud VMware Engine to Aria Operations for Logs. This integration allows you to leverage the power of our Aria Operations stack to monitor and troubleshoot all of our VMware cloud environments.
What’s New in Aria Operations for Logs SaaS - May Release
We have lots of great, new features for our May release of Aria Operations for Logs! More granular usage reports have been added, as well as an option to pause log ingestion. We have also made enhancements to our log explorer, continued our work to bring federated querying between on-prem and SaaS, as well as adding GCVE (Google Cloud VMware Engine) support, and updated some of our content packs to newer versions.
What’s New in Aria Operations for Logs 8.12
We have a new version of Aria Operations for Logs that has been released with a few cool new features to go over. Besides rebranding vRealize Log Insight to Aria Operations for Logs, we also have introduced a new configuration for future federated log querying between SaaS and on-prem, support for more index partitions, and some content pack updates.
What’s New in Aria Operations for Logs (Formerly vRealize Log Insight Cloud) - February 2023
In our February 2023 release of Aria Operations for Logs, we’re announcing the delivery of our Tanzu Kubernetes Grid content pack for FluentBit! FluentBit is one the most popular and utilized log processors for Kubernetes, and now with our TKG content pack, you can forward your Tanzu logs to Aria Operations for Logs and be ready to view your TKG events troubleshoot with the click of a button. This is just a small example of the dashboards from our TKG content pack.
Aria Operations for Logs (formerly Log Insight Cloud) & Oracle audits: Helping you stay compliant
Dealing with Oracle audits can be a complicated affair. When running Oracle on a VMware virtual environment, there are times that you need to prove to Oracle that your database virtual machines have not migrated to unlicensed ESX clusters. If you don’t have the data to show during an audit, things could get messy.
Aria Operations for Logs and PowervRLICloud Powershell Scripts
One of the newest features in Aria Operations for Logs is the ability to run queries and make changes to your instances via API calls. This is very useful for teams who want to leverage a DevOps mindset for Aria Logs and script as many day-to-day tasks as possible.
What’s New in Aria Operations for Logs - November 2022 Release
We have some huge feature announcements for our November 2022 release of Aria Operations for Logs! One of the most asked for features, dropping of logs before ingestion, has been implemented. We also have a new multi-availability zone architecture for improved resiliency, further integration with Aria Operations for Logs on-premises, and more.
What’s New in VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.10 (Formerly vRealize Log Insight)
We have some exciting new features for our latest release of Aria Operations for Logs! The new reporting capabilities have been a major ask since early versions of Aria Operations for Logs, and now they’re here and they look great. We also have a new API to manage reports, as well as usage reports and some new webhook features. Please read below for details on each new feature. Aria Operations for Logs now has the capability to email reports based on custom or out of the box dashboards.
Aria Operations Logs and Aria Operations Cloud Alert Integration
One of the most asked for features for our cloud version of Aria Operations Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight Cloud) is alert integration with Aria Operations Cloud (vRealize Operations Cloud). This capability already exists on the on-premises version of Aria Logs and Aria Operations, and now we have brought that capability to the cloud versions. Previously, the integration between Aria Logs Cloud and Aria Operations Cloud was the ‘Logs’ tab in Aria Operations Cloud.
What’s New in Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight Cloud) - October 2022
We have some great new features to talk about for vRealize Log Insight Cloud (soon to be renamed to Aria Operations for Logs). In the October release, we have added the much-requested feature of REST API calls to Log Insight Cloud! We have also added integration with Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations Cloud), so now we can send Log Insight Cloud alerts and notifications to Aria Operations Cloud to perform actions on.
What’s New in vRealize Log Insight 8.10
We have some exciting new features for our latest release of vRealize Log Insight! The new reporting capabilities have been a major ask since early versions of Log Insight, and now they’re here and they look great. We also have a new API to manage reports, as well as usage reports and some new webhook features. Please read below for details on each new feature. vRealize Log Insight now has the capability to email reports based on custom or out of the box dashboards.
Tech Preview: VMware Aria Business Insights
VMware Aria Hub – previously Project Ensemble – is VMware’s app-centric, common data platform for cloud management uniting different personas in a single collaborative user interface. Today, we are excited to announce the tech preview of a new capability within VMware Aria Hub called VMware Aria Business Insights.
What’s New in vRealize Log Insight Cloud - August 2022
Greetings everyone! We’re kicking off VMware Explore 2022 with some powerful new updates to vRealize Log Insight Cloud. As you may or may not have heard already, the vRealize Suite is being rebranded to ‘VMware Aria’, and vRealize Log Insight Cloud is being rebranded to ‘Aria Operations for Logs’. For simplicity’s sake, we’re going to still use the name ‘Log Insight Cloud’ for this blog, but further videos and publications will refer to the product by its new Aria name.
What's New in Cloud Management at VMware Explore
The growing complexity of multi-cloud environments has given rise to the need for an effective cloud operating model that can cut through the “noise”. Today, VMware Cloud Management is replacing that noise with cloud operations that is equal parts melody and harmony.
vRealize Reaches Major FedRAMP Authorization Milestone
We are super excited to announce that the vRealize Cloud Universal (vRCU) services have completed the internal FedRAMP gap analysis and AWS GovCloud (US) onboarding, a major step in our FedRAMP process! These services are now ready to start their third-party assessments, and on track for submission to the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB).
How to Exclude your VMs from consuming licenses with vRealize Operations
If you have recently found that your vRealize Operations license usage has shot up or if you feel you need a little bit more control over how your vRealize Operations licenses are being consumed in your vRealize Operations instance and would like to exclude your VMs or some of them from license counts then this information is very useful for your needs.
Forwarding vSphere Audit and Authentication Events from vRealize Log Insight to a SIEM
vRealize Log Insight makes it very easy to collect events from vCenter and ESX, and we even have a robust set of content packs for vSphere, but some customers require their auditing events to go to a 3rd party SIEM due to information security requirements. In that use case, we can forward our audit logs via vRLI event forwarding to a SIEM. Let’s look at how to do that here.
Azure VMware Solution and vRealize Log Insight Cloud
We are happy to announce that vRealize Log Insight Cloud has been tested and certified for the Azure VMware Solution (AVS)! Specifically, customers that are looking to move or extend on-premises VMware environments to Azure can now leverage their favorite suite of products to maintain consistent operations and unified visibility for deep operational insights and faster root-cause analysis.
Join the webinar on Business Benefits with Better Network Monitoring and Analytics
Register and join the webinar on June 29, 2022 at 12 PM Eastern (9 AM Pacific) 1 hour Join Argyle, VMware’s Shiv Agarwal, and two guest speakers Andre Kindness, Leigh Greene from Forrester for a webinar covering the latest market trends, why vRealize Network Insight, and benefits four different vRealize Network Insight customers has experienced.
What’s causing my overage charges in vRealize Log Insight Cloud?
With ingestion-based charges a fact of life in our new SaaS world, we constantly need to be aware if the logs and events that we are ingesting into vRealize Log Insight Cloud. A flood of one kind of stray event could be causing thousands of dollars of unnecessary ingestion costs, or even worse, causing overages if you purchased vRealize Cloud Universal.
Announcing vRealize Log Insight v8.8
With the release of VMware vRealize Log Insight v8.8, we are excited to continuously improve and innovate centralized log management across your private, hybrid, and multi-clouds with new features like direct log forwarding to vRealize Log Insight Cloud, webhook integrations, and a many user experience enhancements that’ll make it easier to visualize triggered alerts and notifications! Improved Stability and Query Performance To maximize performance and resolves issues in real-time, vRealize...
Managing VCF with vRealize Operations and the SDDC Health Management Pack
vRealize Operations is VMware’s leading cloud management system for the SDDC and beyond. It helps customers maximize their performance and efficiency and increased return on investment through advanced capacity and cost management. Whether you are running a complete VMware Cloud Foundation or just a few components of VMware’s SDDC and the vRealize Suite then you should be leveraging the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution for vRealize Operations.
Monitoring Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Clusters Using vRealize Log Insight
With the release of vRealize Log Insight 8.4, we added Log Sources which provides in-product documentation on how to configure container log sources to send logs to Log Insight. Some people have reached out with some questions around configuring logging for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters, so I wanted to write a quick blog to run through steps and expected results. There are already a few blogs out there on this, but in this post, I will focus on the setup for the on-prem version of Log Insight.
VMware vRealize Cloud Management tested and certified with Azure VMware Solution
The Multi-Cloud world just became a little more integrated as we are happy to announce that the VMware vRealize Cloud Management products have completed testing certification together with Azure VMware Solution. Azure VMware Solution is an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering from Microsoft Azure built on VMware Cloud Foundation verified by VMware. Azure VMware Solution runs on Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Monitoring a Cassandra Database Cluster with vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight/Fluentd – Part 2 - VMware Cloud Management
In part one of our blog, we configured the Fluentd agent to pulls Cassandra database logs into vRealize Log Insight. If we stopped there, we would only get a partial picture of Cassandra environment if anything were to go wrong.
Unified Visibility Across Clouds with vRealize Operations
Let’s face it, the modern datacenter is no longer this monolithic structure that’s immobile, heavy, and slow to scale as you search for more physical real estate to deploy your servers, applications and infrastructure. It’s quick, agile, flexible, and spread across private clouds, hybrid clouds, public clouds and multi-clouds. But this also presents visibility complexities which could lead to trouble for IT teams. How do you protect and scale what you can’t see?
Monitoring a Cassandra Database Cluster with vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight/Fluentd - Part 1
In this two part blog series, vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations come together to provide a one stop shop for event monitoring, alerting, and metrics. With the combination of these two powerful pieces of software, we can monitor all the way from the application itself, down to the physical hardware without having to rely on juggling multiple monitoring solutions to paint a complete picture.
Top 3 Reasons You Will Love Skyline Advisor
This is part one of a two-part series focusing on Skyline support capabilities. Our responsibility as VMware Technical Account Managers (TAMs) is to ensure our customers are getting the maximum value out of their VMware investments. We guide our customers through their toughest business challenges showing them paths to success not only from our personal experience but from the collective knowledge of all TAMs across VMware and the approaches other customers have been successful with.
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