v.186 Release Notes

Feature Highlights

Azure Cost Management by Tag

You can now use custom tags (such as application, environment, createdBy) to monitor your Azure spend and identify opportunities for optimization. If you are using the Azure Rate Card Cost By Tag datasource, you will need to move to the Azure Cost Management datasources by the end of June. For more information, see Azure Billing Monitoring in the product documentation.

General Updates

Cloud Monitoring

Enhancements

• When adding a new AWS Account to LogicMonitor, you can now specify the location for the dashboards.
• Added support for Zoom OAuth for authenticating the LogicMonitor SaaS integration for Zoom. You must update your existing Zoom SaaS integrations to use this OAuth support before June 2023, when Zoom will retire the existing JWT authentication. For more information, see Updating Existing Zoom SaaS Monitoring to OAuth.
• Added support for discovering and monitoring Azure Front Door Standard/Premium SKU (CDN profiles).
• Added support for monitoring VPN Connections within an Azure VPN Gateway.
• Added support in GCP monitoring for regional and internal HTTP/HTTPS load balancers.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue where data collection on VMs did not resume when the VM transitioned from a stopped state back to a running state. 

Container Monitoring

Enhancements

• You can now monitor Kubernetes scheduler. Kubernetes scheduler watches newly created pods in the system and finds the best pod that they could run on.

Modules

Enhancements

• You can now preserve changes to alert thresholds when updating customized modules in My Module Toolbox. Previously, this was not a preservation option.
• Updated metatdata associations that previously caused incorrect metadata to be shown in some cases.
• Updated ConfigSource and TopologySource editors to use the New UI workflows in My Module Toolbox. For more information see the following articles in the product documentation:
  • ConfigSource Configuration
  • TopologySource Configuration

Settings

Enhancements

• Only non-administrative users have permission to generate API tokens. If you are a user with an administrator role, you will see a warning message if you try to create an API token.

Topology

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue where Dynamic Maps were not obeying RBAC settings.
• Updated the topology core icons to improve the user interface response times.

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
(1 DataSource) Microsoft_Azure_CostManagementByTag	New modules to monitor Azure Cost by Tag.
(1 DataSources) Kubernetes_Scheduler	New module to monitor Kubernetes scheduler.

Updated LogicModules

LogicModule Name	Details
(10 ConfigSources) SCP_Dynamic SCP_Standard SFTP_Dynamic SFTP_Standard SSH_Exec_Dynamic SSH_Exec_Standard SSH_Interactive_Dynamic SSH_Interactive_Standard Telnet_Interactive_Dynamic Telnet_Interactive_Standard (5 PropertySources) ConfigCheck_1_SFTP ConfigCheck_2_SCP ConfigCheck_3_Exec ConfigCheck_4_Interactive ConfigCheck_5_Telnet	Added support for a config.hostprops host property to specify an alternate host name for Common Configs to attempt collection from.
(5 DataSources) AWS_Billing_CostByAccount AWS_Billing_CostByOperation AWS_Billing_CostByRegion AWS_Billing_CostByService AWS_Billing_CostByTag	AWS Billing costs are modeled with decimals having a scale of 10 digits. Previously LogicMonitor was capturing the billing costs with a scale of 4 digits, which could lead to less accurate cost monitoring. This update includes support for 10 digits to the right of the decimal for AWS Billing Cost data sources.
(1 DataSource) Cisco_IPSec_AggregateTunnels	Default SNMP timeout for AD and collection scripts set to 20. The optional property cisco.ipsec.aggtun.timeout can be set to the requested amount of seconds.
(1 DataSource) Cisco_MemoryPools_SNMP	Changed the exception type that the AD try/catch logic was looking for.
(1 DataSource) Cisco_Transceiver_Sensors	Added missing quotes on hostProps for Cisco_Transceiver_Sensors
(1 DataSource) Citrix_XenApp_UserExperience	Updated the description of Citrix_XenApp_UserExperience datasource.
(14 DataSources) Dell_PowerVaultME4_ControllerCompactFlash Dell_PowerVaultME4_ControllerExpanders Dell_PowerVaultME4_ControllerPorts Dell_PowerVaultME4_Controllers Dell_PowerVaultME4_DiskGroups Dell_PowerVaultME4_Disks Dell_PowerVaultME4_Drawers Dell_PowerVaultME4_Enclosures Dell_PowerVaultME4_Fans Dell_PowerVaultME4_HostPorts Dell_PowerVaultME4_PSUs Dell_PowerVaultME4_Pools Dell_PowerVaultME4_VDisks Dell_PowerVaultME4_Volumes (1 EventSource) PaloAlto_FW_ThreatAnalysis_Events (1 PropertySource) addCategory_DellEMC_PowerVaultME4	Updated to ensure that credentials do not print to logs.
(1 DataSource) Docker_Containers_cAdvisor20	Updated diskio_bytes_read and diskio_bytes_write datapoints to read from the proper response field.
(3 DataSources) Email_RoundTrip Email_TransitTime VMware_NSX_EdgeIf	Set debug mode to false.
(1 DataSource) Kubernetes_ControlPlane	Modified appliesTo to exclude K8s managed service provider (eks, aks and gke).
(1 DataSource) Kubernetes_Helm_Status	Added Status graph to Helm Status DS along with a Datapoint to monitor unknown status of Helm Release.
(1 DataSource) Kubernetes_KSM_PodDisruptionBudget	Fixed an issue with the implementation not fetching data.
(1 DataSource) LLDP_Neighbors	Added null check in LLDP_Neighbors/ad.groovy.
(1 DataSource) Microsoft_Azure_BackupJobStatus	Updated description of Microsoft_Azure_BackupJobStatus to make it clear that the DS only pulls 7 days of history for Backup Jobs.
(2 DataSources) Microsoft_Azure_SQLDatabase Microsoft_Azure_SQLDatabaseNonDTU	Microsoft_Azure_SQLDatabase and Microsoft_Azure_SQLDatabaseNonDTU will now take into consideration the SQL Database’s edition when determining whether the SQL Database is DTU-based or not.
(2 DataSources) SilverPeak_Orchestrator_Appliance_Tunnels SilverPeak_Orchestrator_Tunnels	In Active Discovery, allow “passThrough” and “ptTunnel” tunnel instances.
(1 DataSource) VMware_VeloCloud_EdgeLinkMetrics	Implemented retry logic and hardcoded lookback period to 10 minutes to improve collection performance due to API limitations.
(1 PropertySource) addCategory_KubernetesKSM	Fixed detection of Argus KSM while using lm-container charts in case of multiple kube-state-metrics installations being present in cluster.
(1 PropertySource) addCategory_OverrideNoSnmpIf	Corrected typo in appliesTo preventing proper device matching for Dell PowerConnect devices.
(1 PropertySource) Microsoft_SQLServer_Connections	This update includes the following changes: * Added new property for SQL version and edition. * Added checks to prevent failure when WMI times out. * Will check for existing instances and preserve them if they work. * Changed the connection string to add encryption (*;encrypt=true;trustServerCertificate=true;*) to all connection strings for compatibilty with newer versions of the jdbc file from Microsoft. * Updated processing of the mssql.deletenames resource property.
(1 TopologySource) Networking_L2_snmpSwitch	Added support for custom properties “topo.timeout”, which applies to Networking_L2_snmpSwitch SNMP calls without a specific timeout (default 30000 ms) and “topo.interfacesTimeout”, which applies to the Networking_L2_snmpSwitch SNMP interface walk (default 10000 ms). Added documentation for custom “topo.” properties to tech notes.