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vuSmartMaps
NG 2.16.12

Released 04 July 2025Follows NG 2.15.0vuSmartMaps NG 2.x track

19O11y Sourcesexpanded in NG 2.16

4Stability Fixesalerts, pipeline, retention

6Platform Updatessearch, dashboards, guardrails

NG 3.1Upcoming Releasenext planned release

Updated feature documentation for NG 2.16.12 capabilities.

Step-by-step guide for fresh installations from scratch.

In-place upgrade guidance from NG 2.15.0 to NG 2.16.12.

Walkthroughs of new features and O11y source configurations.

What's In This Release

NEW

Cloud and firewall coverageAdded Azure Firewall, Checkpoint Firewall, Azure CDN WAF Policy, and broader firewall observability coverage.
Kafka and KubernetesAdded Kafka Data Collector and OCI Kubernetes Engine monitoring for stream and cloud-native workloads.
Database and storage monitoringAdded SAP ASE, Apache Solr, Azure MySQL, Azure Redis, Azure SQL, Azure Storage Blob, NetApp Storage, and Hitachi Storage coverage.
Oracle Cloud and network eventsAdded OCI Autonomous Database, OCI Compute, and SNMP Trap event monitoring.

IMPROVED

Federated SearchAdded unified Log Analytics search across multiple vuSmartMaps clusters with site-level result visibility.
Platform self-observabilityAdded ingestion pipeline and workflow health alerts for Kafka, ContextStreams, HyperScale, and related services.
HyperScale guardrailsAdded query execution controls, memory utilization limits, and guardrail dashboards for resource protection.
Monitoring enhancementsImproved F5 WAF metrics, WebLogic ThreadDetails, HP-UX socket metrics, Cisco Switch support, and Cisco Firepower monitoring.
Stability fixesFixed user deletion data protection, retention archival handling, alert timestamp mismatch, pipeline CrashLoopBackOff, and large alert update handling.