Configuration changes are one of the most common causes of issues in modern IT. Data Infrastructure Insights' (DII’s) new change analysis capability lets you clearly understand changes that cause issues in your environment. Accelerate troubleshooting time by showing all changes in devices and related infrastructure components that may have led to an issue. Additionally, when you or your team perform planned changes, you can validate those changes quickly and ensure there are no unexpected effects before service levels are impacted.

DII now fully supports KubeVirt, the Kubernetes-native virtualization solution used by platforms like OpenShift Virtualization and Harvester. Gain full visibility into the metrics, events, configuration changes, and network traffic of both Virtual Machines and Container workloads within your Kubernetes clusters.

Expressions enable you to perform arithmetic operations in Metric and Anomaly Detection Monitors. Here are some examples:

Maintenance Windows allow you to suppress alert notifications during scheduled maintenance periods, helping you avoid unnecessary disruptions.

With Maintenance Windows, you can schedule specific maintenance periods during which alert notifications are suppressed, for the objects and metrics you choose. For example, you can suppress alert notifications triggered by specific storage systems, when those storage systems are in a planned upgrade period.

Note that only alert notifications are suppressed (email, webhook); the alerts themselves are still shown on the Observability > Alerts > All Alerts page.

Alert Notification Rules simplify notification management across monitors and teams.

Control alert delivery across your organization's channels, ensuring the right information reaches the right team. No need to manage separate monitors for different teams; route alerts based on related object attributes (storage name, data center, application name) or monitor attributes (group, severity).

You can now include log events in your dashboards, to visualize event data and have more comprehensive and contextual understanding of your environment. Investigate logs and view related metrics without leaving the dashboard!

Proactively manage and troubleshoot your VMware environment with real-time events. VMware events provide insights on VM migrations, resource allocations, and host health. Now available for use in Queries, Dashboards, and Monitors. Requires VMware version 8 or higher. Simply select the logs.vmware.events source.

VMware Events are also used for DII's new Configuration Change Analysis noted above.

On Tuesday, September 24, 2024, NetApp has officially changed the name of Cloud Insights to Data Infrastructure Insights (DII). This has been announced during the Insight user conference by Haiyan Song in her main stage keynote presentation and in an Insight conference product press release.

The DII service remains the same; there are no feature changes or modifications. This is a name change to better align the service name with its capabilities for all IT infrastructure.

Investigating an alert? Zoomed in on a chart? These actions change the time range for those pages. Now you can lock that time range, navigate to other Cloud Insights pages, and see data specific to that locked time range. Investigating and troubleshooting just got a whole lot easier!

Change-ratio time aggregations aid you in identifying significant changes and trends in metric values over time.
Those insights are key to understanding what changed, such as considerable capacity growth for a specific time or a change in single port performance.

When viewing log query results, easily export up to 10,000 rows to .CSV by clicking the new "Export" button. This enhances data accessibility, eases data analysis and reporting, and facilitates seamless integration with other data processing tools.

Cloud Insights now gives you the option to resolve an alert when the monitored metric stays within the acceptable range for a specified duration. This lets you focus on genuine issues, reducing the noise associated with metrics repeatedly crossing defined thresholds by consolidating multiple alerts to one.

Cloud Insights uses machine learning to detect unexpected changes in the patterns of data in your environment, and provide proactive alerts to help you identify problems early.

A data center behaves in different ways at different times of the day, and on different days of the week. Cloud Insights uses weekly seasonality to compare historical behavior for each day and time.

Anomaly Detection Monitoring can provide alerts for situations such as when the definition of "normal" is unclear, where behavior changes over time, or when working with large amounts of data where manually defining thresholds is impractical.

New Anomaly Detection Monitors alert when anomalies such as this occur on object metrics you choose.

NFS 4.1 support

The SVM Data Collector now supports NFS versions up to and including NFS 4.1 with ONTAP 9.15.1 or later..

New Forensics Activity API

The Forensics Activity API has a new version. When calling the API for Forensics Activity, use the cloudsecure_forensics.activities.v2 API.

Note that if you are making multiple calls to this API, for best results ensure that the calls occur sequentially, instead of in parallel. Multiple parallel calls may cause the API to time out.

This feature is all about streamlining your operational workflows and making it easier to collaborate between teams.

Grouping your dashboards makes it easier to quickly get the visibility you need, and now with the new navigation menu, you can jump between different dashboards without losing your place, making it a breeze to explore and manage your infrastructure.
Align dashboard groups with your operational runbooks to further enhance your experience.

The following operating systems are supported with Cloud Insights Acquisition Units, in addition to those already supported:

Log alerts can now be resolved based on time; if the alert condition stops occurring, Cloud Insights can resolve the alert automatically after a specified time has passed. You can choose to resolve the alert in minutes, hours, or days.

Cloud Insights now has support to map the iSCSI storage associated with Kubernetes, allowing faster troubleshooting using the Kubernetes network map and the ability to provide chargeback or showback reports via Reporting.

The following operating systems are supported with Cloud Insights Acquisition Units, in addition to those already supported:

Each of your Workload Security Agents has its own landing page, where you can easily see summary information about the Agent as well as the installed Data and User Directory Collectors associated with that Agent.

When analyzing data on an asset's landing page, adding additional data to the Expert View charts is a snap. For each table on the landing page, if an object type has relevant data, hover over that object to display the "Add to Expert View" icon. Selecting this icon adds that object to the Additional Resources and displays it in the Expert View charts.

Or maybe you want to see a landing page table's data in its own chart. Simply select the Show Chart icon to open the chart below the table:

Save a snapshot of your current dashboard by selecting Export as Image from the right-corner drop-down. Cloud Insights creates a .PNG of the current widget states.

Object and Metric selection is easier than ever for Widgets, Monitors, etc. Choose the object type you want, and then select a metric relevant to that object in the separate drop-down.

Export Data Collector and Acquisition Unit lists to .CSV by selecting the icon at the top of those pages.

We’ve re-organized the Help > Support page so it’s easier to find what you’re looking for, and because you asked for them, we added direct links on this page to API Swagger and user documentation.

Links in the “triggeredOn” column on the Alerts list page will navigate to the appropriate Landing Page, if a Landing Page is available for that object.

Kubernetes Change Analysis now allows you to see a timeline of changes when selecting Cluster and Namespace. Previously, Workload must also have been selected. When filtering on Cluster and Namespace, the timeline of all workload changes in that namespace are shown on one line.

When viewing a log alert, related log entries are shown in a new table. A log entry is related if it occurs in the same source and timeframe as the alert, and is subject to the same conditions. Select “Analyze Logs” to explore further.

Cloud Insights can collect data from the ONTAP system’s back-end switches; simply enable the collection in the data collector’s Advanced Configuration section, and ensure the ONTAP system is configured to provide switch information and has the appropriate permissions set.

In large environments, you can automate Workload Security collector creation using the new Data Collectors API. Navigate to Admin > API Access > API Documentation and select the Workload Security API type to learn more.

In addition to your initial trial of Cloud Insights, you may also take advantage of Module Evaluations. For example, if you are subscribed to Cloud Insights and have been monitoring storage and virtual machines, when you add Kubernetes to your environment, you will automatically enter into a 30-day trial of Kubernetes Observability. Kubernetes Observability managed unit usage will not count against your subscribed entitlement until after the trial period ends.

Workload health is available at a glance on the Kubernetes > Explore > Workloads page, so you can quickly see which workloads are performing well and which may need some help. Easily identify if the health issue is related to infrastructure, network, or configuration changes, and drill down to analyze the root cause.

Workload Security includes a new 2nd-generation ransomware detection ML algorithm to detect the most sophisticated attacks faster and more accurately.

"Seasonality" of behaviors: weekend behavior may follow different patterns from weekday, or morning behavior from afternoon. Workload Security algorithms take this seasonality into account.

Occasionally functionality is deprecated as features evolve. Here are some of the features and functionalities which have been deprecated in Cloud Insights:

Kubernetes Change Analytics provide you with an all-in-one view of recent changes to your Kubernetes environment. Alerts and deployment status are at your fingertips. With Change Analytics, you can track every deployment and configuration change, and correlate it with the health and performance of K8s services, infrastructure, and clusters.

Workload performance is available at a glance in the comprehensive Kubernetes Workload Performance dashboard. Quickly view graphs of Volume, Throughput, Latency, and Retransmission trends, as well as a table of workload traffic for each namespace in your environment. Filters allow easy focus into areas of interest.

In a query, selecting a row opens a side panel showing attribute, annotation, and metric details for the selected row, providing helpful information without needing to drill into the object's landing page. Links in the row or side panel allow for easy navigation.

In Workload Security, you can Pause a Data Collector if the collector is in Running state. Open the "three dots" menu for the collector and select PAUSE. While the collector is paused, no data is gathered from ONTAP, and no data is sent from the collector to ONTAP. Select Resume to begin collecting again.

On a storage node landing page, the User Data section provides at-a-glance information about your support offering, current status, support status, and warranty end date. Note that Cloud Insights currently only auto-publishes this information for NetApp devices. Note also that these support fields are annotations, so they can be used in queries and dashboards.

The VMWare data collector allows you to populate Cloud Insights text annotations with same-name tags that are configured on VMWare.

On some Brocade Fibre Channel switches running 9.1.1c firmware, certain CLI commands’ output may be prepended with the “motd” login banner text, or warnings for users to change default passwords. The Brocade CLI collector has been enhanced to ignore these two types of extraneous text.

Prior to this enhancement, only FOS 9.1.1c switches without Virtual Fabrics present were likely discoverable with this collector type.

Workload Security has been improved with the following:

In addition to your initial trial of Cloud Insights, you may also take advantage of Module Evaluations. For example, if you are already subscribed to Infrastructure Observability but are adding Kubernetes to your environment, you will automatically enter into a 30-day trial of Kubernetes Observability. You will only be charged for your Kubernetes Observability managed unit usage at the end of the evaluation period.

Admins and Account Owners now have the ability to restrict Cloud Insights access to email domains they specify. Go to Admin > User Management and select the Restrict Domains button.

The following Data Collector/Acquisition Unit changes are in place:

Log Query (Observability > Log Queries > +New Log Query) includes a number of enhancements to make log exploration easier and more informative.

When exploring logs using the Log Query, selecting an entry in the list opens a detail panel for that entry. You can now choose to display that slideout panel "Floating" (i.e. displayed over the rest of the screen) or 'In Page" (i.e. displayed as its own frame within the page). To switch between these views, select the "In Page / Floating" button in the upper-right corner of the panel.

You can collapse the left-side Cloud Insights navigation menu by selecting the "Minimize" button below the menu. While the menu is minimized, hover over an icon to see which section it opens; selecting the icon opens the menu and takes you directly to that section.

Cloud Insights has made it easier to show and find data collector information:

The Isilon REST and PowerScale REST collectors contain the following improvements:

These are enabled by default for users of the Isilon REST and/or PowerScale REST collectors. NetApp strongly encourages users of the Isilon CLI-based collector to migrate to the new REST API-based collector to receive enhancements such as the above.

The workload map is more usable and less noisy; it groups all similar external services into one node if they communicate with the same workloads, reducing the complexity of the graph and making it easier to understand how services are interconnected.

Choosing a grouped node will display a detailed table with the network traffic metrics for each external service relevant to that node.

In the event of a compute resource in your Kubernetes cluster environment being counted by both the NetApp Kubernetes Monitoring Operator and an underlying infrastructure data collector (for example, VMware), your usage of these resources will be adjusted to ensure the most efficient counting of managed units. You can view the Kubernetes MU adjustments on the Admin > Subscription page, in both the Summary and Usage tabs.

Summary tab:

Usage tab:

The following Data Collector/Acquisition Unit changes are in place:

We have updated the left hand navigation menu to better support our customers' workflows. New top level items such as Kubernetes provide accelerated access to what the customer needs, and a consolidated administrators console supports the tenant owner role.

Here are some additional examples of the changes:

Here is a brief list of the features you can find under each menu:

Observability:

Kubernetes:

Workload Security:

ONTAP Essentials:

Admin:

Data Collector landing pages now include a list of recent changes. Simply click the "Recent Changes" button at the bottom of any data collector landing page to display recent data collector changes.

The following improvements have been made to Kubernetes Operator deployment:

The Reclaim ONTAP Cold Storage Insight now supports FlexGroups, and is now available to all customers.

For customers who use a private repository for their NetApp Kubernetes Monitoring Operator, you can now copy the Image Signature Public Key during Operator installation, allowing you to confirm authenticity of the downloaded software. Select the Copy Image Signature Public Key button during the optional step to Upload the operator image to your private repository.

Aggregation, Unit Selection, Conditional Formatting, and Column Renaming are among the most useful features of a dashboard table widget, and now those same features are available for Queries.

These features are available now for integration-type data (Kubernetes, ONTAP Advanced Metrics, etc.), and will be coming soon for Infrastructure objects (storage, volume, switch, etc.).

You can now use an API to query or export Audited events. Go to Admin > API Access and select the API Documentation link for information.

Cloud Insights now supports the Trident Economy Driver, realizing these benefits:

Beginning in June, 2023, Cloud Insights provides a breakdown of Managed Unit usage based on Feature Set. Now you can quickly view and monitor managed unit (MU) usage for your Infrastructure as well as MU usage tied to Kubernetes.

The Kubernetes Network Performance and Map simplifies troubleshooting by mapping dependencies between Kubernetes workloads, providing real-time visibility into Kubernetes network performance latencies and anomalies to identify performance issues before they affect users. Many customers found it helpful during Preview, and now it's available for everyone to enjoy.

The following Data Collector/Acquisition Unit changes are in place:

The following ONTAP Essentials dashboards have been available in Preview environments, and now they are available for everyone:

The following System Monitors are included with Cloud Insights:

Installation and configuration of the NetApp Kubernetes Monitoring Operator is easier than ever with the following improvements:

Cloud Insights can differentiate between a storage array having local storage or virtualization of other storage arrays. This gives you the ability to relate cost and distinguish performance from the front-end all the way to the back-end of your infrastructure.

When creating a Webhook notification, you can now include these parameters in your webhook definition:

Kubernetes data collected by Cloud Insights—​including Persistent Volumes (PV), PVC, Workloads, Clusters, and Namespaces—​is now available for use in Reporting, enabling chargeback, trending, forecasting, TTF calculations, and other business reporting on metrics for Kubernetes.

Many ONTAP System Monitors are enabled (i.e. Resumed) by default in new Cloud Insights environments. Previously, most monitors defaulted to Paused state. Because business needs vary from company to company, we always recommend taking a look at the system monitors in your environment and pausing or resuming each based on your alerting needs.

The Kubernetes Network Performance and Map feature simplifies troubleshooting by mapping dependencies between Kubernetes workloads. It provides real-time visibility into Kubernetes network performance latencies and anomalies to identify performance issues before they affect users.
This capability helps organizations reduce overall costs by analyzing and auditing Kubernetes traffic flows.

Key Features:
• The Workload Map presents Kubernetes workload dependencies and flows and highlights network and performance issues.
• Monitor network traffic between Kubernetes pods, workloads, and nodes; identifies the source of traffic and latency problems.
• Reduce overall costs by analyzing ingress, egress, cross-region, and cross-zone network traffic.

Workload Map showing "Slideout" details:

Kubernetes Performance Monitoring and Map is available as a Preview feature.

The Security Dashboard gives you an instant view of your current security situation, showing charts for hardware and software volume encryption, anti-ransomware status, and cluster authentication methods. The Security Dashboard is available as a Preview feature.

The Reclaim ONTAP Cold Storage Insight provides data about cold capacity, potential cost/power savings, and recommended action items for volumes on ONTAP systems.

With this Insight, you can answer such questions as:

Reclaim ONTAP Cold Storage is considered a Preview feature and is therefore subject to change.

Setting recipients for Subscription Notifications (Admin > Notifications) now also controls who will see subscription-related in-product banner notifications.

You will notice that Cloud Insights Reporting screens have a new look, and that some of the menu navigation have changed. These screens and navigation changes have been updated in the current Reporting Documentation.

For new Cloud Insights environments, be aware that system-defined monitors do not send alert notifications by default. You will need to enable notifications for any monitor that you want alerting you, by adding one or more delivery methods for the monitor.
For existing Cloud Insights environments, the default global notification recipient list has been removed for any system-defined monitors currently in Paused state. User-defined notifications remain unchanged, as do notification settings for currently active system-defined monitors.

API Metering has moved from the Subscription page to the Admin > API Access page.

The Cloud Connection for ONTAP 9.9+ data collector is being deprecated. Starting April 4, 2023, Cloud Connection data collectors in your environment will no longer collect data, and will instead present an error when polling. The Cloud Connection data collector will be removed altogether from Cloud Insights in a subsequent update.

Prior to April 4, 2023, it is mandatory to configure a new NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software data collector for any ONTAP systems currently collected by Cloud Connection. Learn More.

We've added almost two dozen additional system monitors to alert for broken interconnect links, heartbeat problems, and more. Additionally, three new Data Protection log monitors have been added, to alert on SnapMirror Auto Resync, MetroCluster Mirroring, and FabricPool Mirror Resync changes.

Note that some of these monitors will be enabled by default; you must pause them if you do not wish to alert on them. Also note that these monitors are not configured to deliver notifications; you must configure notification recipients on these monitors if you want to send alerts via email or webhook.

Ensuring accessibility to your data is essential, so we've made .CSV export available for all metric queries, dashboard table widgets, and object landing pages, regardless of the type of data (asset or integration) you're querying.

Data customizations like column selection, renaming columns, and unit conversions are also now included in the new export functionality.

Starting today, signing up for a new Trial of Cloud Insights allows you to explore Security features such as Ransomware detection and automated user-blocking response policy. If you haven't signed up for your Trial, do it today!

Workloads are a key part of your Kubernetes environment, so Cloud Insights now provides landing pages for those workloads. From here, you can view, explore, and troubleshoot issues that affect your Kubernetes workloads.

You asked us to provide you with checksum values during installation of the agent for Windows and Linux and we think that's a great idea. So here they are:

We've added almost a dozen new system monitors for SnapMirror for Business Continuity (SMBC), which alert on changes to SMBC certificates and ONTAP Mediators.

We've added dozens of new system-defined monitors to alert you to potential issues with Cloud Volumes, Security, and Data Protection. Read more about these monitors here.

Cloud Secure improves ransomware detection through integration with ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP).

Cloud Secure receives ONTAP ARP events on potential volume file encryption activity, and

ONTAP Default monitors now available to use in Cloud Insights Basic Edition. This includes more than 70 infrastructure monitors and 30 workload examples.

The dashboard gallery includes a new dashboard for ONTAP Power and Temperature as well as four dashboards for StorageGRID. If your environment is collecting ONTAP power metrics and/or StorageGRID data, import these dashboards by selecting +From Gallery.

Conditional Formatting allows you to set and highlight Warning-level and Critical-level thresholds in table widgets, bringing instant visibility to outliers and exceptional data points.

Cloud Insights can alert you when it detects that FIPS mode is disabled on the ONTAP system. Read more about System Monitors, and watch this space for more Security Monitors, coming soon!

Chat with a NetApp Support specialist from any Cloud Insights screen by selecting the new Help > Live Chat link. Help is available from the "?" icon in the upper right of the screen.

If your environment is experiencing an Insight such as Shared resources Under Stress or Kubernetes Namespaces Running Out of Space, asset landing pages for resources affected now include links to the Insight itself, providing quicker exploration and troubleshooting.

All data sources are now optimized to resume performance polling after Acquisition Unit updates and/or patches.

The following operating systems are supported with Cloud Insights Acquisition Units, in addition to those already supported:

Starting this month, "Monitor and Optimize" has been renamed Observability. You'll find all your favorite features like Dashboards, Queries, Alerts, and Reporting here. In addition, look for Cloud Secure under the new Security menu. Note that only the menus have changed; feature functionality remains the same.

Looking for the Help menu?

Help now lives in the upper right of the screen.

ONTAP Essentials is a set of dashboards and workflows that provide detailed views into your NetApp ONTAP inventories, workloads, and data protection, including days-to-full predictions for storage capacity and performance. You can even see if any controllers are running at high utilization. ONTAP Essentials is your ideal place for all of your NetApp ONTAP monitoring needs!

ONTAP Essentials—​available in all Editions—​is designed to be intuitive to existing ONTAP operators and administrators, easing the transition from ActiveIQ Unified Manager to service-based management tools.

You asked for it, and now you've got it. Storage base-2 and base-10 data units are now combined into one family, from bits and bytes to tebibits and terabytes, making it easier to display data your way on your dashboards. Data Rates are also now one big family of their own.

Display and monitor your ONTAP storage shelf and node power consumption, temperature, and fan speed, using the netapp_ontap.storage_shelf, netapp_ontap.system_node and netapp_ontap.cluster (power consumption only) metrics.

The following features have moved out of Preview and are now available to all customers:

Cloud Insights provides two new heartbeat monitors for your Acquisition Units, as well as two monitors to alert you to data collector failures. These can be used to alert you quickly to data collection issues.

The following monitors are now available in the Data Collection monitor group:

Note that these monitors are in Paused state by default. Activate them to be alerted about data collection issues.

API Access Tokens can now be set for auto-renewal. By enabling this feature, new/refreshed API Access Tokens will automatically be generated for expiring tokens. Cloud Insights agents using an expiring token will automatically be updated to use the corresponding new/refreshed API Access Token, allowing them to continue to operate seamlessly. Simply check the “Renew token automatically” box when creating your token. This feature is currently supported on Cloud Insights agents running on the Kubernetes platform with the latest NetApp Kubernetes Monitoring Operator.

Your trial is ending but you're not yet sure whether a subscription is right for you? Basic Edition has always given you a chance to continue using Cloud Insights with your current ONTAP data collector, but now you can continue capturing VMWare version, topology, and IOPS/Throughput/Latency data as well. NetApp customers with premium support on their storage systems will also be entitled to support for Cloud Insights.

Check out the Learning Center section of the Help > Support page for links to NetApp University Cloud Insights course offerings!

The following operating system is supported with Cloud Insights Acquisition Units, in addition to those already supported:

Cloud Insights makes it easier than ever to explore your Kubernetes environment, with an improved cluster detail page that provides Saturation details as well as a cleaner view into Namespaces and Workloads.

The Cluster list page also gives you a quick view of saturation, in addition to Node, Pod, Namespace, and Workload counts:

Is your cluster just starting in the world, or has it experienced a long digital life? Age has been added as a time metric collected for Kubernetes Nodes.

Cloud Insights provides a dashboard to forecast the number of days until capacity runs out for each Internal Volume monitored. These values can help to significantly reduce the risk of an outage.

TTF counters are also available for Storage, Storage Pool, and Volume. Keep watching this space for additional dashboards for these objects.

Note that Time-to-Full forecasting is moving out of Preview and will be rolled out to all customers.

ONTAP change log entries can be viewed in the log explorer.

The following operating systems are supported with Cloud Insights Acquisition Units, in addition to those already supported:

The agent for ingestion of telegraf integration data has been updated to version 1.22.3, with performance and security improvements.
Users wishing to update can refer to the appropriate upgrade section of the Agent Installation documentation.
Previous versions of the agent will continue to function with no user action required.

Cloud Insights regularly highlights a number of exciting new preview features. If you are interested in previewing one or more of these features, contact your NetApp Sales Team for more information.

You can now chat live with NetApp Support personnel! On the Help > Support page, simply click the Chat icon or click Chat in the "Contact Us" section to start a chat session. Chat support is available US weekdays for Standard and Premium Edition users.

We’ve made it easier to get you up and running with Cloud Insights’ advanced Kubernetes monitoring and cluster explorer.

The Kubernetes Monitoring Operator (NKMO) is the preferred method for installing Kubernetes for Cloud Insights Insights, for more flexible configuration of monitoring in fewer steps, as well as enhanced opportunities for monitoring other software running in the K8s cluster.

Click the link above for more information and pre-requisites

You can now manage users and invites using Cloud Insights' powerful API. Read more in the API Swagger Documentation.

Don’t miss out on critical metrics due to a failed collector!

It’s easier than ever to keep track of your data collectors with new alerts for data collector and acquisition unit failures.
Note that these Monitors are Paused by default. To enable, navigate to your monitors page and locate and resume “Acquisition Unit Shutdown” and “Collector Failed”

Don’t let unexpected storage changes lead to outages!

You can now configure Cloud Insights to alert when modification or removal of FlexVols, nodes and SVMs are detected on ONTAP systems.

Cloud Insights regularly highlights a number of exciting new preview features. If you are interested in previewing one or more of these features, contact your NetApp Sales Team for more information.

We want your input to help shape Cloud Insights. Earn points and prizes by participating in NetApp's Insights to Action program. Sign up now!

We’ve overhauled our dashboard creation tools to make it easier for you to visualize your data even more quickly. Navigate to the “Dashboards” page of Cloud Insights to edit an existing dashboard, add one from our dashboard gallery, or create a new dashboard of your own to check it out.

A new Count aggregation method has also been introduced. When grouping data in bar chart, column chart, and pie chart widgets, you can quickly and easily show the number of relevant objects for the selected metric.

Additionally, line charts now allow you to select one of three interpolation methods:

Cloud Insights keeps you on top of changes in your Kubernetes environment by alerting you when pods, daemonsets, and replicasets are created or removed, as well as when new deployments are created. Kubernetes monitors default to paused state, so you should enable only the specific ones you need.

Cloud Insights regularly highlights a number of exciting new preview features. If you are interested in previewing one or more of these features, contact your NetApp Sales Team for more information.

Collection and display of performance data has been improved on the following data collectors:

These performance enhancements are already available in all NetApp data collectors as well as VMware and Cisco, and will be rolled out to all other data collectors over the next few months.

The NetApp Cloud Connection for ONTAP 9.9+ data collector eliminates the need to install an external acquisition unit, thereby simplifying troubleshooting, maintenance, and initial deployment.

Monitoring your FSx for NetApp ONTAP environment is easy with new system-defined monitors for both infrastructure (metrics) and workloads (logs).

Your environment is more secure than ever with the following Cloud Secure features now generally available:

The agent for ingestion of telegraf integration data has been updated to version 1.21.2, with performance and security improvements.
Users wishing to update can refer to the appropriate upgrade section of the Agent Installation documentation.
Previous versions of the agent will continue to function with no user action required.

Customer security is a top priority at NetApp. Cloud Insights includes updates to its software libraries to address the recent Apache Log4j vulnerabilities.

Please refer to the following on NetApp’s Product Security Advisory website:

CVE-2021-44228
CVE-2021-45046
CVE-2021-45105

You can read more about these vulnerabilities and NetApp's response at the NetApp Newsroom.

Exploring your Kubernetes environment is now better than ever, with informative detail pages for your cluster’s namespaces. The namespace detail page provides a summary of all the assets used by a namespace, including all the backend storage resources and their capacity utilizations.

Simplify alerting for ONTAP hardware failures and more with new integration with NetApp Event Management System (EMS).
Explore and alert on low-level ONTAP messages in Cloud Insights to inform and improve troubleshooting workflows and further reduce reliance on ONTAP element management tooling.

For ONTAP systems, Cloud Insights Queries include a powerful Log Explorer, allowing you to easily investigate and troubleshoot EMS log entries.

In addition to system-defined and custom-created Monitors for alerting, you can also set alert notifications for ONTAP data collectors, allowing you to specify recipients for collector-level alerts, independent of other monitor alerts.

Users can be granted access to Cloud Secure features based on roles set by an administrator:

CentOS 8.x support is being replaced with CentOS 8 Stream support. CentOS 8.x will reach End-of-Life on December 31, 2021.

A number of Cloud Insights data collector names have been added to reflect vendor changes:

New variables for attributes and the ability to use variables in widgets.

Dashboards are now more powerful and flexible than ever. Build adaptive dashboards with attribute variables to quickly filter dashboards on the fly. Using these and other pre-existing variables you can now create one high level dashboard to see metrics for your entire environment, and seamlessly filter down by resource name, type, location, and more. Use number variables in widgets to associate raw metrics with costs, for example cost per GB for storage as a service.

Enhanced capabilities for integration with third party reporting, ITSM, and automation tools: Cloud Insights' powerful API allows users to query the Cloud Insights Reporting database directly, without going through the Cognos Reporting environment.

Seamless navigation between VMs and the Kubernetes Pods using them: for improved troubleshooting and performance headroom management, a table of associated Kubernetes Pods will now appear on VM landing pages.

The Cloud Insights Acquisition Unit supports the following operating systems, in addition to those already supported:

Kubernetes Explorer page filters give you focused control of the data displayed for your Kubernetes cluster, node, and pod exploration.

Kubernetes data is now available for use in Reporting, allowing you to create chargeback or other reports. In order for Kubernetes chargeback data to be passed to Reporting, you must have an active connection to, and Cloud Insights must be receiving data from, your Kubernetes cluster as well as its back-end storage. If there is no data received from the back-end storage, Cloud Insights can not send Kubernetes object data to Reporting.

Many of you asked for a dark theme, and Cloud Insights has answered. To switch between light and dark theme, click the drop-down next to your user name.

We’ve made some improvements in Cloud Insights Data Collectors. Here are some highlights:

Monitors and Alerts have supplanted Performance Policies and Violations throughout Cloud Insights. Alerting with Monitors provides greater flexibility and insight into potential problems or trends in your environment.

When creating a monitor for alerting, typing in a filter is now predictive, allowing you to easily search for and find the metrics or attributes for your monitor. Additionally, you are given the option to create a wildcard filter based on the text you type.

The agent for ingestion of telegraf integration data has been updated to version 1.19.3, with performance and security improvements.
Users wishing to update can refer to the appropriate upgrade section of the Agent Installation documentation.
Previous versions of the agent will continue to function with no user action required.

We’ve made some improvements in Cloud Insights Data Collectors. Here are some highlights:

And since we’re always improving Data Collection, here are some other recent changes of note:

The Audit page provides a cleaner interface and now allows the export of audit events to .CSV file.

Cloud Insights now allows even greater freedom for assigning user roles and access controls. Users can now be assigned granular permissions for monitoring, reporting, and Cloud Secure separately.

This means you can allow more users administrative access to monitoring, optimization, and reporting functions whilst restricting access to your sensitive Cloud Secure audit and activity data to only those that need it.

Find out more about the different levels of access in the Cloud Insights documentation.

With this release of Cloud Insights, you no longer need to know all the possible names and values on which to filter in a query or widget. When filtering, you can simply start typing and Cloud insights will suggest values based on your text. No more looking up Application names or Kubernetes attributes ahead of time just to find the ones you want to show in your widget.

As you type in a filter, the filter displays a smart list of results from which you can choose, as well as the option to create a wildcard filter based on the current text. Selecting this option will return all results that match the wildcard expression. You can of course also select multiple individual values that you want added to the filter.

Additionally, you can create expressions in a filter using NOT or OR, or you can select the "None" option to filter for null values in the field.

Read more about filtering options in queries and widgets.

Cloud Insights' powerful APIs are more accessible than ever, with Alerts APIs now available in Standard and Premium Editions.
The following APIs are available for each Edition:

Cloud Insights provides visibility into the back-end storage for your Kubernetes environments, giving you insight to your Kubernetes Pods and Persistent Volumes (PVs). You can now track PV counters such as IOPS, latency, and throughput from a single Pod’s usage through a PV counter to a PV and all the way to the back-end storage device.

On a Volume or Internal Volume landing page, two new tables are displayed:

Note that to take advantage of these new tables, it is recommended to uninstall your current Kubernetes agent, and install it fresh. You must also install Kube-State-Metrics version 2.1.0 or later.

On a Kubernetes Node page, you can now click to open the Node's VM page. The VM page also includes a link back to the Node itself.

To enable the added benefits of multiple thresholds, webhook and email alert delivery, alerting on all metrics using a single interface, and more, Cloud Insights will be converting Standard and Premium Edition customers from Performance Policies to Monitors during the months of July and August, 2021. Learn more about Alerts and Monitors, and stay tuned for this exciting change.

Cloud Secure now supports NFS for ONTAP data collection. Monitor SMB and NFS user access to protect your data from ransomware attacks.
Additionally, Cloud Secure supports Active-Directory and LDAP user directories for collection of NFS user attributes.

Cloud Secure automatically deletes snapshots based on the Snapshot Purge Settings, to save storage space and reduce the need for manual snapshot deletion.

A single data collector agent system can now post up to 20,000 events per second to Cloud Secure.

The agent for ingestion of telegraf integration data has been updated to version 1.17.3, with performance and security improvements.
Users wishing to update can refer to the appropriate upgrade section of the Agent Installation documentation.
Previous versions of the agent will continue to function with no user action required.

You can now add an optional description as well as additional insights and/or corrective actions when creating or modifying a Monitor by filling in the Add an Alert Description section. The description will be sent with the alert. The insights and corrective actions field can provide detailed steps and guidance for dealing with alerts and will be displayed in the summary section of the alert landing page.

API access is now available in all editions of Cloud Insights.
Users of Basic edition can now automate actions for Acquisition Units and Data Collectors, and Standard Edition users can query metrics and ingest custom metrics.
Premium edition continues to allow full use of all API categories.

For details on API usage, please refer to the API documentation.

Monitor Grouping simplifies the management of monitors in your environment. Multiple monitors can now be grouped together and paused as one. For example, if you have an update occurring on a stack of infrastructure, you can pause alerts from all those devices via one click.

Monitor groups is the first part of an exciting new feature bringing improved management of ONTAP devices to Cloud Insights.

Many commercial applications support Webhooks as a standard input interface. Cloud Insights now supports many of these delivery channels, providing default templates for Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, and Discord, in addition to providing customizable generic webhooks to support many other applications.

To improve monitoring and troubleshooting as well as deliver accurate reporting, it is helpful to understand the names of devices rather than their IP addresses or other identifiers. Cloud Insights now incorporates an automatic way to identify the names of storage and physical host devices in the environment, using a rule-based approach called Device Resolution, available in the Manage menu.

A popular ask by customers has been for more default options for visualizing the range of data, so we have added the following five new choices that are now available throughout the service via the time range picker:

Starting April 2, Cloud Insights supports multiple subscriptions of the same edition type for a customer in a single Cloud Insights instance. This enables customers to co-term parts of their Cloud Insights subscription with infrastructure purchases. Contact NetApp Sales for assistance with multiple subscriptions.

While setting up Cloud Insights, you can now choose whether to start with Monitoring and Alerting or Ransomware and Insider Threat Detection. Cloud Insights will configure your starting environment based on the path you choose. You can configure the other path at any time afterward.

And it is easier than ever to start using Cloud Secure, with a new step-by-step setup checklist.

As always, we love to hear your suggestions! Send them to ng-cloudinsights-customerfeedback@netapp.com.

The agent for ingestion of telegraf integration data has been updated to version 1.17.0, which includes vulnerability and bug fixes.

Experience the power of Spot by NetApp with Cloud Cost, which provides a detailed cost analysis of past, present, and estimated spending, providing visibility into cloud usage in your environment. The Cloud Cost dashboard delivers a clear view of cloud expenses and a drill down into individual workloads, accounts, and services.

Cloud Cost can help with these major challenges:

Cloud Cost is focused on monitoring. Upgrade to the full Spot by NetApp account to enable automatic cost saving and environment optimization.

Cloud Insights now allows searching for attributes and metrics having null/none values through the use of filters. You can perform this filtering on any attributes/metrics in the following places:

To filter for null/none values, simply select the None option when it appears in the appropriate filter drop-down.

Starting today we offer the Cloud Insights service in different regions across the globe, which facilitates performance and increases security for customers based outside the United States. Cloud Insights/Cloud Secure stores information according to the region in which your environment is created.

Click here for more information.

As part of our continuing effort to improve efficiency of data-gathering from ONTAP systems, the following ONTAP metrics have been renamed.

If you have existing dashboard widgets or queries using any of these metrics, you will need to edit or re-create them to use the new metric names.

The Kubernetes Explorer provides a simple topology view of Kubernetes Clusters, allowing even non-experts to quickly identify issues & dependencies, from the cluster level down to the container and storage.

A wide variety of information can be explored using the Kubernetes Explorer's drill-down details for status, usage, and health of the Clusters, Nodes, Pods, Containers, and Storage in your Kubernetes environment.

Kubernetes Agent installation has been streamlined to require fewer user interactions. Installing the Kubernetes Agent now includes Kubernetes data collection.

The following new ONTAP-focused dashboards have been added to the gallery and are available for import:

You can rename columns in the Metrics and Attributes section of a table widget by opening the widget in Edit mode and clicking the menu at the top of the column. Enter the new name and click Save, or click Reset to set the column back to the original name.

Note that this only affects the column's display name in the table widget; the metric/attribute name does not change in the underlying data itself.

Table widget grouping now allows for default expansions of Kubernetes, ONTAP Advanced Data, and Agent Node metrics. For example, if you group Kubernetes Nodes by Cluster, you will see a row in the table for each cluster. You could then expand each cluster row to see a list of the Node objects.

Technical Support is now available for subscribers to Cloud Insights Basic Edition in addition to Standard and Premium Editions. Additionally, Cloud Insights has simplified the workflow for creating a NetApp support ticket.

Cloud Secure supports REST APIs for accessing Activity and Alert information. This is accomplished through the use of API Access Tokens, created through the Cloud Secure Admin UI, which are then used to access the REST APIs. Swagger documentation for these REST APIs is integrated with Cloud Secure.

The Cloud Insights Query page supports integration data (i.e. from Kubernetes, ONTAP Advanced Metrics, etc.). When working with integration data, the query results table displays a "Split-Screen" view, with object/grouping on the left side, and object data (attributes/metrics) on the right. You can also choose multiple attributes for grouping integration data.

Unit display formatting is now available in Table widgets for columns that display metric/counter data (for example, gigabytes, MB/second, etc.). To change a metric's display unit, click the "three dots" menu in the column header and select "Unit Display". You can choose from any of the available units. Available units will vary according to the type of metric data in the display column.

Acquisition Units now have their own landing page, providing useful detail for each AU as well as information to help with troubleshooting. The AU detail page provides links to the AU's data collectors as well as helpful status information.

Cloud Secure's dependency on Docker has been removed. Docker is no longer required for Cloud Secure agent installation.

If you have Cloud Insights Premium Edition with Reporting, every Cloud Insights user in your environment also has a Single Sign-On (SSO) login to the Reporting application (i.e. Cognos); by clicking the Reports link in the menu, they will automatically be logged in to Reporting.

Their user role in Cloud Insights determines their Reporting user role:

Cloud Insights has added a Data Ingestion API category, giving you greater control over custom data and agents. Detailed documentation for this and other API Categories can be found in Cloud Insights by navigating to Admin > API Access and clicking the API Documentation link. You can also attach a comment to the AU in the Note field, which is displayed on the AU detail page as well as the AU list page.

In addition to the current ability to set performance policies for storage objects, VMs, EC2, and ports, Cloud Insights Standard Edition now includes the ability to configure monitors for thresholds on Integration data for Kubernetes, ONTAP advanced metrics, and Telegraf plugins. You simply create a monitor for each object metric you want to trigger alerts, set the conditions for warning-level or critical-level thresholds, and specify the email recipient(s) desired for each level. You can then view and manage alerts to track trends or troubleshoot issues.

Cloud Secure protects your data by automatically taking a snapshot when malicious activity is detected, ensuring that your data is safely backed up.

You can define automated response policies that take a snapshot when ransomware attack or other abnormal user activity is detected.
You can also take a snapshot manually from the alert page.

Automatic Snapshot taken:

Manual Snapshot:

The following capacity counters are available for use in Cloud Insights UI and REST API. Previously these counters were only available for the Data Warehouse / Reporting.

Cloud Secure now detects potential attacks such as ransomware. Click on an alert in the Alerts list page to open a detail page showing the following:

Alerts page showing potential ransomware attack:

Detail page for potential ransomware attack:

During your trial of Cloud Insights, you can self-subscribe through AWS Marketplace to either Cloud Insights Standard Edition or Premium Edition. Previously, you could only self-subscribe through AWS Marketplace to Standard Edition only.

The dashboard/asset page Table widget includes the following enhancements:

In addition to filtering on an object's attributes in a widget, you can now filter on metrics as well.

When working with integration data (Kubernetes, ONTAP Advanced Data, etc.), metric filtering removes the individual/unmatched data points from the plotted data series, unlike infrastructure data (storage, VM, ports etc.) where filters work on the aggregated value of the data series and potentially remove the entire object from the chart.

Cloud Insights takes advantage of NetApp's ONTAP-specific Advanced Counter Data, which provides a host of counters and metrics collected from ONTAP devices. ONTAP Advanced Counter Data is available to all NetApp ONTAP customers. These metrics enable customized and wide-ranging visualization in Cloud Insights widgets and dashboards.

ONTAP Advanced Counters can be found by searching for "netapp_ontap" in the widget's query, and selecting from among the counters.

You can refine your search by typing additional parts of the counter name. For example:

Please note the following:

Cloud Insights comes with a variety of pre-designed dashboards to help get you started on visualizing ONTAP Advanced Counters for topics such as Aggregate Performance, Volume Workload, Processor Activity, and more. If you have at least one ONTAP data collector configured, these can be imported from the Dashboard Gallery on any dashboard list page.

More information on ONTAP Advanced Data can be found at the following links:

Performance Policies and Violations are now found under the Alerts menu. Policy and Violation functionality are unchanged.

The agent for ingestion of telegraf integration data has been updated to version 1.14, which includes bugs fixes, security fixes, and new plugins.

Note: When configuring a Kubernetes data collector on the Kubernetes platform, you may see an "HTTP status 403 Forbidden" error in the log, due to insufficient permissions in the "clusterrole" attribute.

To work around this issue, add the following highlighted lines to the rules: section of the endpoint-access clusterrole, and then restart the Telegraf pods.

Reporting a data collector error is easier with the Send Error Report button on the data collector page. Clicking the button sends basic information about the error to NetApp and prompts investigation into the problem. Once pressed, Cloud Insights acknowledges that NetApp has been notified, and the Error Report button is disabled to indicate that an error report for that data collector has been sent. The button remains disabled until the browser page is refreshed.

The following improvements have been made in dashboard widgets. These improvements are considered Preview functionality and may not be available for all Cloud Insights environments.

The following roles have been added for Reporting:

Cloud Insights includes the following recent Cloud Secure changes.

In the Forensics > Activity Forensics page, we provide two views to analyze and investigate user activity:

Additionally, the Alert email notification now contains a direct link to the alert page.

Dashboard grouping allows better management of dashboards that are relevant to you. You can add related dashboards to a group for "one-stop" management of, for example, your storage or virtual machines.

Groups are customized per user, so one person's groups can be different from someone else's. You can have as many groups as you need, with as few or as many dashboards in each group as you like.

You can pin dashboards so favorites always appear at the top of the list.

TV Mode and Auto-Refresh allow for near-real-time display of data on a dashboard or asset page:

Combined, TV Mode and Auto-Refresh provide a live view of your Cloud Insights data, perfect for seamless demonstrations or in-house monitoring.

Time range choices for dashboards and other Cloud insights pages now include Last 1 Hour and Last 15 Minutes.

Cloud Insights includes the following recent Cloud Secure changes.

Cloud Secure monitors and audits all user access operations on files and folders. Activity auditing allows you to comply with internal security policies, meet external compliance requirements such as PCI, GDPR, and HIPAA, and conduct data breach and security incident investigations.

The default time range for dashboards is now 3 Hours instead of 24 hours.

Optimized time aggregation intervals in time-series widgets (Line, Spline, Area, and Stacked Area charts) are more frequent for 3-hour and 24-hour dashboard/widget time ranges, allowing for faster charting of data.

You can still override the optimized aggregation by setting a custom interval.

In most widgets, Cloud Insights knows the base unit in which to display values, for example Megabytes, Thousands, Percentage, Milliseconds (ms), etc., and now automatically formats the widget to the most readable unit. For example a data value of 1,234,567,890 bytes would be auto formatted to 1.23 gibibytes. In many cases, Cloud Insights knows the best format for the data being acquired. In cases where the best format is not known, or in widgets where you want to override the automatic formatting, you can choose the format you want.

With Cloud Insights Premium Edition's powerful API, you can now import annotations and assign them to objects using a .CSV file. You can also import applications and assign business entities in the same way.

Adding widgets to dashboards and asset landing pages is easier with a new widget selector that shows all widget types in a single all-at-once view, so the user no longer needs to scroll through a list of widget types to find the one they want to add. Related widgets are color-coordinated and grouped by proximity in the new selector.

Cloud Insights Premium Edition comes with a powerful API that can be used to integrate Cloud Insights with other applications, such as CMDB’s or other ticketing systems.

Detailed, Swagger-based information is found in Admin > API Acccess, under the API Documentation link. Swagger provides a brief description and usage information for the API, and allows you to try each API out in your environment.

The Cloud Insights API uses Access Tokens to provide permission-based access to categories of API, such as ASSETS or COLLECTION.

Previously, after configuring a new data collector, Cloud Insights would poll the data collector immediately to gather inventory data, but would wait until the configured performance poll interval (typically 15 minutes) to gather initial performance data. It would then wait for another interval before initiating the second performance poll, which meant it would take up to 30 minutes before meaningful data was acquired from a new data collector.

Data collector polling has been greatly improved, such that the initial performance poll occurs immediately after the inventory poll, with the second performance poll occurring within a few seconds after completion of the first performance poll. This allows Cloud Insights to begin showing useful data on dashboards and graphs within a very short time.

This poll behavior also occurs after editing the configuration of an existing data collector.

It is easier than ever to create a copy of a widget on a dashboard or landing page. In dashboard Edit mode, click the menu on the widget and select Duplicate. The widget editor is launched, pre-filled with the original widget's configuration and with a “copy” suffix in the widget name. You can easily make any necessary changes and Save the new widget. The widget will be placed at the bottom of your dashboard, and you can position it as needed. Remember to Save your dashboard when all changes are complete.

With Cloud Insights Premium Edition, administrators can enable Single Sign-On (SSO) access to Cloud Insights for all users in their corporate domain, without having to invite them individually. With SSO enabled, any user with the same domain email address can log into Cloud Insights using their corporate credentials.

Swagger explains each available REST API in Cloud Insights, as well as its usage and syntax. Information on Cloud Insights APIs is available in documentation.

The feature tutorials checklist has been moved to the top banner and now features a progress indicator. Tutorials are available for each user until dismissed, and are always available in Cloud Insights documentation.

When installing an Acquisition Unit (AU) on a host or VM that has the same name as an already-installed AU, Cloud Insights assures a unique name by appending the AU name with "_1", "_2", etc. This is also the case when uninstalling and reinstalling an AU from the same VM without first removing it from Cloud Insights. Want a different AU name altogether? No problem; AU's can be renamed after installation.

In widgets, you can choose between an Optimized time aggregation interval or a Custom interval that you set. Optimized aggregation automatically selects the right time interval based on the selected dashboard time range (or widget time range, if overriding the dashboard time). The interval dynamically changes as the dashboard or widget time range is changed.

The process for getting started using Cloud Insights has been simplified to make your first-time setup smoother and easier. Simply select an initial data collector and follow the instructions. Cloud Insights will walk you through configuring the data collector and any agent or acquisition unit required. In most cases it will even import one or more initial dashboards so you can start gaining insight into your environment quickly (but please allow up to 30 minutes for Cloud Insights to collect meaningful data).

Additional improvements:

Business Entity annotations can be used in filters for queries, widgets, performance policies, and landing pages.

Clicking the value in a single-value or gauge widget opens a query page showing the results of the first query used in the widget. Additionally, clicking the legend for any widget whose data is rolled up by "All" will also open a query page showing the results of the first query used in the widget.

New users who sign up for a free trial of Cloud Insights now have 30 days to evaluate the product. This is an increase from the previous 14-day trial period.

The calculation of Managed Units (MUs) in Cloud Insights has been changed to the following:

This change effectively doubles the environment capacity that you can monitor using your existing Cloud Insights subscription.

Cloud Insights Reporting is a business intelligence tool that enables you to view pre-defined reports or create custom reports. With Reporting you can perform the following tasks:

Cloud Insights Reporting can generate custom reports for areas like chargeback, consumption analysis, and forecasting, and can help answer questions such as the following:

Reporting is available with Cloud Insights Premium Edition.

Active IQ Risks are now available as objects that can be queried as well as used in dashboard table widgets. The following Risks object attributes are included:
* Category
* Mitigation Category
* Potential Impact
* Risk Detail
* Severity
* Source
* Storage
* Storage Node
* UI Category

Two new widgets are available for displaying single-value data on your dashboards in eye-catching colors based on thresholds you specify. You can display values using either a Solid Gauge or Bullet Gauge. Values that land inside the Warning range are displayed in orange. Values in the Critical range are displayed in red. Values below the Warning threshold are displayed in green.

You can now display the Single-Value widget with a colored background based on thresholds you set.

At any point during the onboarding process, you can click on Admin > User Management > +User to invite additional users to your Cloud Insights environment. Be aware that users with Guest or User roles will see greater benefit once onboarding is complete and data has been collected.

The data collector detail page has been improved to display errors in a more readable format. Errors are now displayed in a separate table on the page, with each error displayed on a separate line in the case of multiple errors for the data collector.

When adding data collectors to your environment, you can set a filter to show only the data collectors available to you based on your subscription level, or all data collectors.

Cloud Insights collects data from NetApp ActiveIQ, which provides a series of visualizations, analytics, and other support related services to NetApp customers and their hardware / software systems. Cloud Insights integrates with ONTAP Data Management systems. See Active IQ for more information.

Dashboards and Widgets have been improved with the following changes:

Downgrade to Basic Edition fails with an error message if there is no available NetApp device configured that has successfully completed a poll in the last 7 days.

The Kubernetes Data Collector now collects objects and counters from the kube-state-metrics plugin, greatly expanding the number and scope of metrics available for monitoring in Cloud Insights.

Cloud Insights is available in different Editions to fit your budget and business needs. Existing NetApp customers with an active NetApp support account can enjoy 7 days of data retention and access to NetApp data collectors with the free Basic Edition, or get increased data retention, access to all supported data collectors, expert technical support and more with Standard Edition. For more information on available features, see NetApp's Cloud Insights site.

Note that the HCI data collector acquires from the HCI Virtual Center only. To collect data from the storage system, you must also configure the NetApp SolidFire data collector.

In addition to acquisition of data from infrastructure devices such as switches and storage, Cloud Insights now collects data from a variety of Operating Systems and Services, using Telegraf as its agent for collection of integration data. Telegraf is a plugin-driven agent that can be used to collect and report metrics. Input plugins are used to collect the desired information into the agent by accessing the system/OS directly, by calling third-party APIs, or by listening to configured streams.

Documentation for currently supported integrations can be found in the menu to the left under Reference and Support.

When configuring the following data collectors, you can filter to include or exclude virtual machines from data collection according to their Tags or Labels.