XpoLog 6 - Release Notes
Welcome to XpoLog 6
This article contains details on new features, enhancements, and general information related to the release of XpoLog Center 6
Contents
Planning a New Installation or Upgrade?
System Monitoring and Alerting
Apps - NEW*
Reports - End of life (replaced by Dashboards)
Enhanced Zoom In from Search Results
Planning a New Installation or Upgrade?
Setups are available at www.xpolog.com. Please review Plan a Deployment for details on system requirements, installation procedures, and getting started.
If you plan an upgrade from an earlier XpoLog version, please contact our support team at support@xpolog.com to get more details - we will be releasing the upgrade patch for existing environments shortly.
Documentation
All technical documentation is available at http://wiki.xpolog.com, and in our technical support site – http://support.xpolog.com. We are working hard to update the resources to provide as detailed and accurate documentation as possible.
General System Enhancements
Home page modifications
XpoLog homepage was replaced to present a quick actions panel and a selected dashboard. More>
SDK/API Enhancements
XpoLog System Status consoleXpoLog SDK and XpoLog API were enhanced to support more remote based operations. The SDK and API provide more methods for accessing and managing more features in the product.
System Monitoring and Alerting
XpoLog System Status console was enhanced to support SNMP trap based alerts to report NOCs on issues with XpoLog. XpoLog Alert MIB can be reviewed here.
XpoLog Apps (formerly Dashboards) - NEW*
An XpoLog App is a container that contains one or more dashboards. Each dashboard in the App is used to display visual or textual information from the logs that exist in the XpoLog environment.
The entire visualization layer of XpoLog was replaced and is now available under Apps context management. V6 introduces 50+ advanced visualization types that can be defined on the managed data in XpoLog.
Apps and Dashboards simplify and expedite analysis of an Application or Environment. The Dashboards provide live visualization of the data to quickly expose and understand faults and outages.
XpoLog has an engine that enables customizing multiple dashboards. For example, multiple dashboards can be defined under an App one for displaying application problems, performance problems, network issues, and security - see XpoLog Apps for more information.
For Administration related topics - see Apps Administration
XpoLog Manager
XpoLog Manager Tab
XpoLog Manager tab was moved to the right hand side of the Tab bar. The Manager tab is focusing on the platform's administration and management.
Remote XpoLog Enhancements
Remote XpoLog's accounts were enhanced to support automated synchronization of logs from a remote XpoLog instance to the center as well as time zone of the remote XpoLog's instance that can be automatically applied on all logs of a given Remote XpoLog instance.
Monitors Alerts Enhancements
XpoLog Monitors alerts were enhanced to support a REST call when a certain threshold is met.
Templates Enhancements
Templates management enhancements. More>
Reports End of Life - Replaced by Dashboards Enhancements
The previous reports section is no longer available. All capabilities are support in a much more efficient and advanced ways in the Dashboards. More>
XpoLog Search
New Search Functions
XpoLog's Search syntax was enhanced with implementation of more mathematical, statistical and complex functions. More>
Enhanced Zoom In from Search Results
XpoLog's Search zoom in was enhanced in a way that performing a zoom in from the search results will redirect the user to the log viewer in a non filtered view with the selected record highlighted.