FoglightEvolve_7.1.5_ReleaseNotes

Foglight^® Evolve 7.1.5

Developed for Foglight Management Server 7.1.5

Release Notes

October 2024

Contents

Contents

Welcome to Foglight Evolve

New in this release

Resolved issues and enhancements

Compatibility

Deprecated components

Known issues

Third party known issues

Upgrade and compatibility 

System requirements

Product licensing

Getting Started with Foglight Evolve

About Us

Welcome to Foglight Evolve

Welcome to Foglight Evolve

Foglight^® Evolve simplifies application performance monitoring and reduces the skills and effort required to manage applications, the user experience, and the supporting infrastructure. Unlike other solutions, Foglight Evolve uses a single code base, and has a model-driven design that couples fast deployment and accelerated time-to-value. It offers the modular flexibility required to deliver a range of capabilities and sophistication to meet the needs of any organization—from those still focused on technology-centric monitoring to those that have completed the transition to application-centric or transactional monitoring.

Foglight Evolve performs equally well in physical, virtual, and mixed infrastructure environments, providing visibility into issues affecting the application and end-user experience. Intuitive workflows help you quickly move from the symptom to the root cause in the application, database, infrastructure, or network to resolve issues, reducing mean time to resolution. Predefined and drag-and-drop dashboards provide insight that is tailored to each stakeholder. By offering comprehensive visibility into your monitored environment, Foglight Evolve helps ensure that cross-functional teams collaborate on and prioritize issues that matter most to the business.

Foglight Evolve introduced FIPS Compliance mode starting from 9.2. FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 is a U.S. government security standard for hardware and software cryptography modules. Modules validated against the standard assure government and other users that the cryptography in the system meets the standard. For more information about the NIST FIPS 140-2 program, see Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) validation.

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New in this release

New in this release

Version 7.1.5 of Foglight contains updates to version 7.1.x as described in the Resolved issues and enhancements section.

In addition, version 7.1.5 of Foglight contains the following:

Security Enhancements

• Updated Java JRE used by Foglight to version 17.0.11

• Updated third-party libraries

• Addressing issues with supporting HTTPS traffic when the FMS is running in FIPS mode

Foglight Agent Manager Enhancements

• Update the SSH library used by agents to provide support for newer encryption and signature algorithms.

User Experience Enhancements

• Fixed date format inconsistency in timeframe selector

• Timeframe reset when zoom-in on a wcf chart and set

Previously released version 7.1.1 of Foglight contains the following features and updates:

• Provide new signed installers for Foglight server and Foglight Agent Managers

Version 7.1 of Foglight contains the following new features and updates:

Security Enhancements

• Updated third-party libraries

• Addressing issues with supporting HTTPS traffic when the FMS is running in FIPS mode

Foglight Agent Manager Enhancements

• FglAM HA partitions will now automatically fail back to the highest priority FglAM

User Experience Enhancements

• Revised the header across all foglight dashboards to include new breadcrumbs, timeframe selector, and reports
• Open source and No-SQL database menus are now conveniently located under the “Databases” menu on the left for easy navigation
• Change the location of the “Pin” button for the left navigation bar
• Improve Query Insight layout to allow change of width between the two parts of the screen

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