2025 updates

Welcome to the 2025 update notes for Zenoss Cloud. The visible and not-so-visible parts of Zenoss Cloud are updated regularly. This page highlights the new features and enhancements.

April

This month's updates include the following enhancements:

Smart View > Component view

The new Component view provides an interactive list of component groups and their respective device component tables. This perspective offers a valuable overview of a device and its components.

Component groups in Collection Zones (CZ) organize device components into custom groups. The Component view is useful if you want to leverage these organizers for your devices in Smart View. You can view the device components in each group, inspect all the events for the group in this view, and navigate to Inventory for further details.

To learn more, see Smart view.

Dashboards

The Stoplight and Metric Outliers tiles now feature the Set target percent option so you can decide if you want to apply a target percentage of time or not when a metric exceeds the specified thresholds.

Previously, the Target percent was a required option. You can use it to specify the percentage of the dashboard's current time range during which the data points of a metric have to meet the specified threshold(s).

By default, the Set target percent option is turned off.

• When turned off, you can’t set Target percent and only the most recent metric value is considered for thresholds.

• When turned on, you must enter a Target percent value that determines if the most recent value exceeds the threshold for the specified percentage of the time range.

Note that the Set target percent is automatically enabled for existing dashboards so that they continue to work as expected.

To learn more, see Stoplight and Metric Outliers.

Smart View

Secondary metric cards now feature more graph details so you can better understand the information and its scale. Previously, the cards featured a sparkline graph. Now the graph includes a y-axis label and units.

To learn more about secondary metric cards, see Smart View.

Actions > Destinations

You can now add a custom message to your notification when creating a new Slack destination or editing an existing one. This is useful when you want to add more details to your message or take advantage of Slack customizations.

In the destination details, you can select the default Slack message format, plain text, markdown text, or JSON blocks for your message format. After selecting the message type, you can enter your custom message.

To learn more, see Destination fields for Slack.

Streaming data > Connectors

When adding or editing a connector, you can test your new or updated configuration for a connector before saving it. This is useful for troubleshooting configuration changes before they are saved. The TEST button is available for all connectors.

To learn more, see Connectors.

Streaming data > SAM collector

You can configure the Site Availability Monitor (SAM) collector to monitor both external and internal sites and endpoints. The SAM collector allows you to monitor the availability of internal sites, such as servers, network devices, and applications, from within your firewall.

To use the SAM collector, install the Linux agent and configure the http datasource.

To learn more, see Site Availability Monitor (SAM) collector.

March

This month's updates include the following enhancements:

Events

You can now filter the First seen and Last seen columns by date and time. Click the calendar option in the column header to apply a date range to search for events within your specified range. Alternatively, you can select a single date and corresponding time to search for events before or after the specified date. The filters work independently for each column, but you can use both together to create a custom range.

This feature is useful when you want to fine-tune the existing time range for the console. For example, you can include only events first seen in the last 24 hours instead of all open events in the default time range.

To learn more, see Events.

Smart View

You can now navigate back to recently viewed entities. This is useful when you have examined entities in Smart View in past sessions and would like an easy way to find them again.

There are multiple ways of navigating to Smart View, such as clicking an entity or link in Dashboards, Events, or Inventory. All instances where an entity serves as the anchor entity in Smart View are tracked. As a result, you can quickly select the most recently and frequently viewed entities when you open the Smart View landing page.

To learn more, see Smart View.

Inventory > Summary view

You can now view a visual summary of the entities included in your query. This is useful when you want a quick snapshot of key information about your query results.

To learn more, see View summary.

Dashboards > Save scope filters

When you are refining the scope of your dashboard using the expanded scope filter, you can now save that filter to the dashboard scope.

Click the Expand scope filter bar to open the query builder to specify the criteria of the entities you want to view. To keep this filter as part of your dashboard scope, click the Save icon in the query bar.

When you next open this dashboard, the filter is automatically applied to the dashboard scope. You can also select the scope control to view the scope and its filters.

To learn more, see Filter the dashboard scope.

Dashboards > Add filters in dashboard scope

You can now add filters when defining or editing the scope for a dashboard.

When creating a new dashboard or editing an existing dashboard, you can add, edit, or delete filters. This is useful when you want to adjust the entities included in your current scope or if you want to modify or delete filters you have applied.

To learn more, see Create a new dashboard and Edit the dashboard scope.

Dashboards > Tile filters

You can now apply filters to individual tiles in your dashboard. This is useful if you need to compare different services side-by-side, for example, comparing the performance of services in different regions.

You can apply tile filters on all tile types except Clock, Emoji, and Notes. When you apply a tile filter, it will remain active for all future sessions.

You can add, modify, and delete tile filters in Tile Configuration.

To learn more, see Filtering dashboard tiles.

February

This month's updates include the following enhancements:

Actions > Destinations

You can now select a time zone and a time format for your destinations in Actions. This is useful when you want your notification summary to include days, dates, or timestamps.

To learn more, see Add a destination.

You can also insert the new {{{timestamp_local}}} template in messages. To learn more, see Message templates.

Dashboards > Service Health tile

You can now view availability and performance percentages in the Service Health tile. These percentages indicate the proportion of time that the service is considered available and performant. This information gives you a quick and easy way to assess the health of your services.

You can customize the types of events that are included in these classifications in the Tile Configuration panel for the tile. For example, you can decide to never show percentages, or to only show percentages when a service is below 100%. You can also set minimum states for services to be considered available and performant.

To learn more, see Service Health tile.

Administration > Event management

You can now use our code assistant to help you craft your Javascript code when customizing event ingest policies.

When you're checking out your events, you might want to adjust them a bit for the next time they pop up. For example, you might want to change the severity of an event or tweak the summary, but you don't know the exact Javascript to use in the Code Editor.

With the code assistant, you can just type what you want to do in plain English, and the AI assistant will generate some Javascript code for you. It offers a great starting point, but you might need to modify your instructions or the code itself to get it working just right.

To learn more, see Code assistant.

Inventory > Events column

In the Events column in Inventory, you can now view event information about entities, including the severity and event count scoped to the entity.

The row for each entity shows the icon for the highest severity level of its associated events, along with the total number of matching events. You can click the severity icon to go to the Events console and view details for critical, error, and warning events.

To learn more, see Inventory.

January

This month's updates include the following enhancements:

Actions > Destinations > PagerDuty

You now have the power to customize PagerDuty alert summaries to ensure that critical information is always front and center. When editing your PagerDuty destination, set a custom summary template or let Zenoss supply a default template that corresponds to the trigger type.

We've also expanded our documentation to include the Custom Payload option for the PagerDuty destination. This option gives you the ability to add additional context and data within the PagerDuty incident payload.

To learn more, see Add a destination and Destination fields.

Site Availability Monitoring (SAM) connector

Configuring your SAM connector is improved. When you set up your SAM connector, you can now add your configuration file in the new Code Editor and enter the credentials for your site or sites.

The Code editor includes options for building your configuration file using a sample YAML file, showing the credentials matcher for adding and editing site credentials, and copying your configuration file before saving the connector.

To learn more, see Set up a Site Availability Monitor (SAM) connector

Connectors and multiple credentials

A connector can be associated with multiple credentials, for example, a Site Availability Monitoring (SAM) connector might be configured for multiple sites, each with unique credentials. In such cases, the Credentials column in the Connectors table displays the link text multiple credentials for that connector. Click the link to open the Credentials service so you can view a filtered table of the associated credentials.

Credentials are only filtered for connectors created or edited after December 19th, 2024. When you create a new connector with multiple credentials or edit an existing connector, Zenoss automatically adds the connector name to the Tags field. Zenoss uses these tags to filter multiple credentials. If you don't have changes to make for your connector, you can manually add a tag (connector name) to your credentials for the connector. Then credentials filtering works.

To learn more, see Viewing connectors.

Past update notes

Looking for last year's feature releases? See 2024 update notes.