Announcements and new and updated features in VMware Aria Operations for Applications (formerly known as Tanzu Observability by Wavefront).

This page lists new and updated features for the VMware Aria Operations for Applications service.

Announcements

Onboarding Original VMware Aria Operations for Applications to VMware Cloud Services

In October, 2023, we start to incrementally onboard all original subscriptions to VMware Cloud services. You will receive a notification in your Operations for Applications UI with the date scheduled for your service onboarding to VMware Cloud services. Make sure that you get familiar with the VMware Cloud services platform and prepare for the onboarding. See What Should I Do Before the Onboarding?.

Free Trial of VMware Aria Operations for Applications on VMware Cloud Services

Starting September 20, 2023, all new trial instances of Operations for Applications are onboarded to VMware Cloud services. You can start a free trial directly from the VMware Cloud Services Console.

VMware Aria Operations for Applications on VMware Cloud Services

Starting July 3, 2023, VMware Aria Operations for Applications is a service on the VMware Cloud services platform. After this date, we support two types of subscriptions:

  • Onboarded Subscriptions: Operations for Applications subscriptions that are onboarded to the VMware Cloud services platform.

  • Original Subscriptions: Existing subscriptions which remain as is until onboarded to VMware Cloud services.

    We are in the process of incrementally onboarding all original subscriptions to VMware Cloud services.

For information about the two subscription types and how they differ, see Subscription Types.

2023-38.x Release Notes

Onboarded Subscriptions

New Admin Permission and Service Role: With this release, we introduce the Admin permission and service role. Admin users can manage the Operations for Applications organization settings.

Original and Onboarded Subscriptions

Cloud Integrations Page Improvements: We improved the user experience of the Cloud Integrations page. To navigate to this page:

  1. In your service instance, click Integrations on the toolbar.
  2. Click a cloud integration tile, for example Amazon Web Services.
  3. On the Setup tab, click Advanced.

An annotated screenshot of the Cloud Integrations list page. The information is listed below

On the Cloud Integrations page, now you can:

  • Apply various filters and hide or show the filters listed on the left.
  • Search for integrations, save and share searches.
  • Hide or show the filters on the left.
  • Click the Add Cloud Integration button and select a new integration to add.
  • Select to display all active or only the deleted integrations.
  • Sort the cloud integrations by name, time of the last data fetch, or number of ingested metrics.
  • Use the ellipsis icon menu to:
    • Enable or disable an integration instance, edit it, or delete it, when all integrations are displayed.
    • Restore an integration instance or select to permanently delete it, when only deleted integrations are displayed.

2023-34.x Release Notes

Original and Onboarded Subscriptions

Kubernetes Alerts Templates: We included new alerts templates for the Kubernetes integration. See the Integrations Release Notes for details.

2023-33.x Release Notes

Original and Onboarded Subscriptions

  • Alerts Improvements: When the Resolve Window for an alert is deleted by using an external tool, in the Operations for Applications UI, the Alert will now properly display that the Resolve Window matches the Trigger Window.

  • Sources Browser Page Improvements: The Sources browser page is now improved and allows you to:

    • Hide and show details for all sources or for a specific source.
    • Apply various filters and hide or show the filters listed on the left.
    • Hide a single source or create a maintenance window for the alerts with a particular source.

    In addition, the page on which you can examine a single source is also improved for better user experience.

2023-31.x Release Notes

Original and Onboarded Subscriptions

  • Logs GA release: With this release, we launch the General Availability of our Logs feature. You can:

    A screenshot of the logs browser.

  • Logs Alerts: You can create alerts for your logs data and see the firing events of the logs alert. See Manage Logs Alerts for details.

    In this release, you can create logs alerts only when the default query language for your user account is WQL and Chart Builder is the default way for building queries. This limitation will be removed in an upcoming release.

    A screenshot of the alert browser on the logs alerts tab.

  • Maintenance Window Browser Page Improvements: The Maintenance Window browser page is now improved and allows you to:

    • Hide and show details for all maintenance windows or for a specific maintenance window.
    • Sort the maintenance windows by name, state, start or end time.
    • Apply various filters and hide or show the filters listed on the left.

  • New Field in the Generic Webhook Alert Template: We added the contributingKVs iterator, which returns the keys and values of each source and point tag used in the time series of a failed alert whose condition uses a single top-level aggregation function.

  • Support for Alerting on ~alert.webhooks: With this release, you can alert on cs(~alert.webhooks.*). See Query Responses of Webhook Alert Targets for details.

Onboarded Subscriptions Only

  • Support for Kubernetes Integration Setup: We added support for setting up the Kubernetes integration when your Operations for Applications service is onboarded to VMware Cloud services. See the Integrations Release Notes for details.

  • Support for Tanzu Application Service Integration Setup: We added support for setting up the Tanzu Application Service integration when your Operations for Applications service is onboarded to VMware Cloud services. See the Integrations Release Notes for details.

Past Release Notes