Geneos Release Summary

Overview

The release summary document shows the highlights of each major and minor Geneos release.

To learn more about the supported Geneos versions and new features in the most recent Geneos release, see the following documents:

• Geneos 6.x Release Notes
• Geneos 6.x Compatibility Matrix
• What’s New in Geneos

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.

Geneos 6.3.x

Released: March 2023

For detailed release notes, see 6.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Gateway configuration files can now be stored centrally in Obcerv. This simplifies the process for configuring Geneos as it removes the need to deal with storing and governing externally hosted Gateway configuration files.
• Obcerv now supports Single Sign On functionality for Geneos components. Obcerv installation includes Keycloak for identity management and access control. Geneos components such as Gateway, Active Console, and Web Dashboard can now integrate with Obcerv Keycloak for authentication and authorization. This is an alternative to the stand alone SSO Agent used in typical Geneos installations.

Geneos 6.2.x

Released: January 2023

For detailed release notes, see 6.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Active Console now supports Follow Selection mode for State Tree. This means the State Tree will automatically expand to select and identify items selected elsewhere in the Active Console. This makes it easier to find items in your State Tree without needing to search through a large number of items.
• Support integration with HashiCorp Password Vault that allows you to manage passwords in the Gateway configuration.
• Netprobe Helm Chart now supports additional configuration options.

Geneos 6.1.x

Released: December 2022

For detailed release notes, see 6.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• New Fluentd plugin to aggregate log data. Fluentd is an open-source highly scalable log event data collector. Similar to Prometheus for metrics, Fluentd has become a popular choice of tool for log collection and aggregation in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift. The new Fluentd plugin allows you to receive logs directly from Fluentd so you don’t have to deploy additional toolsets to aggregate log data for monitoring. The plugin supports inbound Fluentd protocol messages over secure TCP connection. The inbound messages are dynamically organised into streams of log data for monitoring using popular plugins like File Keyword Monitor and State Tracker. Geneos can also publish that data onwards to ITRS Obcerv platform, Splunk, or Elasticsearch for log search and analysis.
• Monitoring Kubernetes control plane components with Prometheus plugin. The Prometheus plugin is now enhanced to support collecting metrics from Kubernetes endpoints such as the control plane components. The key to providing a scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available Kubernetes service are the control plane components of Kubernetes such as the scheduler, etcd, api-server, and control-manager. In order to maintain a healthy Kubernetes cluster, monitoring these components is crucial. These components can expose internal performance metrics using Prometheus format. The Prometheus plugin can scrape the metric endpoints exposed by these components directly, without the need to install Prometheus server to aggregate this data.
• Other improvements:
  • AWS plugin now supports monitoring custom namespaces (custom metrics), EC2 network interfaces and security groups. The plugin configuration is also updated to allow a single collector (plugin) to monitor multiple regions to minimise configuration.
  • Gateway publishing now supports exclude filter when publishing data to other systems like ITRS Obcerv, Kafka and generic Http endpoints. This gives more control over the data published to other systems, helping to minimise downstream data requirements.
  • Market Data Monitoring (MDM) plugin now includes a new feed adapter for connecting to Refinitiv’s Real Time Optimized data feed accessible via the cloud. This is available as pilot feature in this release.
  • SQL-Toolkit plugin for SAP ASE (Sybase) now support Kerberos authentication.

Geneos 6.0.x

Released: September 2022

For detailed release notes, see 6.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Ingest OpenTelemetry data for complete observability is an open, vendor-neutral toolset, and standard for instrumenting your applications and services. With the increased use of highly distributed microservice architectures, has become a popular standard for collecting observability data. We are excited to introduce the new plugin supporting the Protocol (OTLP) for collecting metrics, logs, and traces (partially supported). This gives you full-stack monitoring of your systems and applications alongside your other monitoring using the extensive range of plugins in Geneos. While metrics and logs are fully supported, we currently extract important metrics from the trace data. We intend to fully support trace data in future releases. Geneos can be configured to dynamically create the monitoring entities and data structures so your monitoring can automatically scale with your application deployment.
• Improved visibility and management of Geneos and its plugins, first introduced in 5.x, gather data points (metrics, logs, and events) and report them to Geneos Netprobe. Collection Agent can be deployed alongside Netprobes and managed by Netprobes or installed and managed independently from Netprobe. For most host-based monitoring, it is useful to deploy Collection Agent managed by Netprobe. For containerised environments like Kubernetes, Netprobe and Collection Agent are typically managed using Kubernetes objects. This release introduces improvements to the Collection Agent and its plugins (or Collectors) managed by a Netprobe.
  • Collection Agent configuration (collection-agent.yml) can now be managed centrally in Gateway via the Gateway Setup Editor alongside your other configuration. This removes the need to manage YAML files on the host where Collection Agent is running. Support for variables and validation reduces complexity and improves the user experience. This feature requires Gateway and Netprobe version 6.x. It is also recommended you upgrade Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor to version 6.x.
  • The lifecycle of the Collection Agent can be managed by the Netprobe, giving you more visibility and control of the Collection Agent and its plugins. Self-monitoring views and easy access to logs, errors, and configuration files from within mean you can easily diagnose any issues without needing access to host machines.
• Easily migrate AES keys for more secure password management supports private AES keys for encrypting sensitive data in configuration. When AES keys are changed, all encrypted data must be updated to use the new key. Gateway Setup Editor now supports a migration option to easily update the configuration to use the new key.

Geneos 5.14.x

Released: May 2022

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Geneos and Obcerv connectivity is the platform to take performance monitoring to the next level. With scalable architecture and data storage, it is a platform to take control of the complex IT infrastructure and application monitoring. Geneos real-time monitoring, together with ITRS Obcerv, allows you to store, collate, contextualise, and visualise your data, giving you end to end visibility for operational resilience.
  • Gateways can publish all your metrics and events to Obcerv for storage and analysis. Data filtering at with efficient data compression and scalable storage in delivers a reliable platform for operational data.
  • Netprobes can publish log data to Obcerv, so you have metrics and logs together in a single platform. This allows you to build a workflow that takes you from a real-time log monitoring view in Geneos Active Console to Log Investigation in Obcerv.
  • Active Console users can build history charts by querying the data stored in Obcerv. For more information on how can help improve your operational resilience, see use case scenarios.
• Easy access to Geneos data. For many of our customers, Geneos is a critical component of the operation landscape, so having easy access to data is important to building well-integrated workflows. We are introducing two new ways to access the real-time data in Geneos Gateways. This is in addition to the already supported publishing method to Kafka and the new ITRS Obcerv platform.
  • Gateways can publish data to an HTTP/HTTPS endpoint. This is a generic lightweight method to publish (POST) metrics and events to other systems. Filtering at Gateway lets you control what you publish to minimise downstream data requirements.
  • Gateway REST service now supports a new endpoint to request a snapshot of a dataview. This is ideal for reporting and visualisation tools to request a snapshot view of a specific dataview from .
• Kubernetes plugin can now collect metrics describing the state of namespaces, nodes, pods, and the workload resources such as deployments, daemon sets, replica sets, stateful sets, and jobs. We will continue to focus on the Kubernetes plugin in the next release to add more metrics describing the state of control plane objects such as API Server, control manager, and scheduler.

Geneos 5.13.x

Released: March 2022

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Geneos AWS plugin now supports over 20 new AWS services, including Kinesis, Lambda, SNS, VPN, Load Balancers, DynamoDB, and many more. The AWS plugin collects AWS CloudWatch metrics, logs, and events to provide unified information across your AWS resources. Data is collected with minimal configuration and Geneos entities are created dynamically as you deploy more AWS services.

• Improved Geneos plugin to monitor Azure resource logs and activity logs alongside metrics. The Azure plugin can now read log data through the Azure Event Hub in order to dynamically enable File Keyword Monitor (FKM) on the stream of data. The log data collected by the Azure plugin can also be published to other platforms such as Elasticsearch, Splunk, and ITRS Obcerv for log investigation and long-term storage. See Monitor Azure Platform Logs using FKM.

• Uptrends is an end-user experience monitoring solution for your websites, APIs, and web applications. This release enhanced the Geneos Uptrends plugin, allowing you to visualise the status of your Uptrends Real User Monitoring (RUM) data alongside your Geneos application monitoring. The integration also allows you to click through from a dataview in the Active Console to the Uptrends UI for more detailed investigations.

• Improvements to Dynamic Entities feature:

  • Allow mapping configuration at group level to simplify maintenance.
  • Dynamically create samplers like FKM and State Tracker when matching data is received.
  • Show Dynamic Mapping command is now available on dynamically created streams, making it easier to configure and maintain.

Geneos 5.12.x

Released: January 2022

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• The Apache Log4j library in the Active Console, Web Dashboard, Terracotta Messaging integration, and VMware Monitor integration, has been upgraded to 2.17.1 to fix the security vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44832). We recommend upgrading to the latest version Geneos 5.12.0 or newer.
• FKM plugin now supports publishing streams from Windows Events (NT events) through the Publisher plugin to external log storage systems such as Elasticsearch, Splunk, and ITRS Obcerv.
• Updated CorvilNet integration (genos-cnpi) to support HTTPS and configurable heartbeat intervals.
• JMX plugin now supports monitoring JMX Server with registry SSL enabled.
• Netprobe memory utilisation improvements related to the Dynamic Entities.

Geneos 5.11.x

Released: December 2021

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• The Apache Log4j library in the Active Console, Web Dashboard, Terracotta Messaging integration, and VMware Monitor integration, has been upgraded to 2.17.0 to fix the security vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-45105). We recommend upgrading to the latest version Geneos 5.11.3 or newer.

• The Apache Log4j library in the Active Console, Web Dashboard, Terracotta Messaging integration, and VMware Monitor integration, has been upgraded to 2.16.0 to fix the security vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-45046). We recommend upgrading to the latest version Geneos 5.11.2 or newer.

• The Apache Log4j library in the Active Console, Web Dashboard, Terracotta Messaging integration, and VMware Monitor integration, has been upgraded to 2.15.0 to fix the security vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228). We recommend upgrading to the latest version Geneos 5.11.1 or newer.

• With the addition of the Geneos AWS Monitor plugin, you can now monitor your AWS resources in a single enterprise platform alongside your on-premise and hybrid environments. The plugin collects AWS CloudWatch metrics, logs, and events to provide unified information across your AWS resources. Data is collected with minimal configuration and Geneos entities are created dynamically as you deploy more AWS services. This is a fully supported integration to give you a single pane of glass view of your entire deployment stack. In addition, the AWS plugin can:

• Monitor AWSservices such as EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, EBS, EFS, firewall, billing, and more.

• Generate close to real-time alerts using Geneos powerful rule and alert capabilities.

• Minimise configuration with built-in dynamic entity mappings for more automated discovery.

• Minimise cost by using a single enterprise tool for monitoring.

• See your entire estate in one platform with monitoring that scales with you.

• You can now deploy the AWS plugin through the by launching an EC2 instance based on the published ITRS’s pre-configured AMI. This deployment makes the configuration of the AWS plugin easier with built-in dynamic entity mapping to minimise Gateway configuration. Different scenarios are also supported for you to deploy your virtual machine. See AWS Plugin in AWS Marketplace.

• Gateway can now collect statistics to help determine the requirements for storing Gateways data in the Obcerv platform (formerly Hub 3).

• The slash character (/, U+002F) is now allowed in the Geneos component names generated by dynamic mappings.

• New <probeHostname> macro in the Self-Announcing Netprobe setup file which supports hostnames with dots in the names.

• Various updates to fix known security vulnerabilities.

Geneos 5.10.x

Released: September 2021

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Uptrends is an end-user experience monitoring solution that can synthetically monitor your websites, APIs, and web applications. This release introduces the new Geneos Uptrends plugin that allows you to visualise the status of your Uptrends monitored websites and services alongside your application monitoring. Integration also allows you to click through from a Geneos dataview in the Active Console to the Uptrends UI for more detailed investigations.

• X-plugins now support Npcap (replacement for WinPcap) without needing to run in compatibility mode.

• Improved MariaDB support for Gateway database logging and SQL Toolkits.

• Prometheus plugin

  • Prometheus has become a widely adopted standard in application monitoring, especially in orchestrated environments. If Prometheus is your choice of tool, the Geneos plugin for Prometheus and Alert Manager lets you bring your metrics and Alert Manager events into Geneos for a unified view across your entire stack. It includes the extraction of the data itself, plus the ability to dynamically generate Geneos data structures, minimising configuration, and maintenance. Alert Manager data can also be streamed into FKM plugin for monitoring specific events.

• Azure Event Hub plugin integration

  • Azure plugin now supports the ability to consume real-time metrics from the Azure Event Hub service. This is an alternative to polling the Azure Monitor API, enabling to monitor your Azure cloud environment at scale and in real-time. Built-in mappings for the Azure plugin allow Geneos to dynamically create entities and dataviews to keep configuration to minimum.

• Azure VM

  • You can now deploy the Azure plugin through the Azure Marketplace. This deployment makes the configuration of the Azure plugin easier with built-in dynamic entity mapping to minimise Gateway configuration. Different scenarios are also supported for you to deploy your virtual machine.

• OP5 Monitor plugin is a comprehensive monitoring and alerting tool for your IT networks and infrastructures. Geneos OP5 Monitor plugin allows you to visualise the host and service level status in alongside your application monitoring.

• REST Extractor plugin now supports POST content-type options for integrating with other applications and services.

• The Dynamic Entities Health view now includes messagesLost metric to better monitor the dynamically created streams in Geneos.

• New /liveness endpoint to programmatically test the state of all Geneos components.

Geneos 5.9.x

Released: August 2021

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• New IBM i Member Record plugin that can display member information given a list of files or file members.

• Improved the FIX Analyser 2 message query report so that the messages sent and received in a session can be viewed together.

• Better grouping of Gateway self-monitoring dataviews.

• Enhanced Azure plugin:

• Ability to filter based on resource groups and tags.

• Reduced number of API calls required to collect data.

• New self monitoring view, including API usage metrics.

• Improvements to Dynamic Managed Entities:

  • Auto pivot single row dataviews for better visibility in the Active Console.
  • Better management and visibility of any clashes in the entity attributes.
  • Visibility into dynamically created streams, making it easier to diagnose and resolve issues.

• Trapmon plugin supports SNMP version 3 for authenticating and encrypting data packets over the network.

Geneos 5.8.x

Released: May 2021

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• You can now publish log data to Splunk. The log data collected for File Keyword Monitor (FKM) can now be published to Splunk for storage and analysis. The data sent to Splunk is enriched with Geneos context so that you can search by managed entities, attributes, severities, and any matching triggers, or ignored keywords.

• Enhanced Kubernetes monitoring. You can now monitor for specific namespaces, additional metrics for resource quota, node and container level CPU, and memory capacity limits.

• With the addition of the Geneos Azure plugin, you can now monitor your Azure Cloud services alongside on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments for full end-to-end visibility:

  • This plugin can monitor and collect metrics from over 30 Azure services, such as VM, Network, Storage, Database, and Automation.
  • Minimal configuration with built-in Dynamic Entity mappings for more automated discovery.
  • Close to real-time alerts using Geneos powerful rule and alert capabilities.
  • Minimise cost by using single enterprise tool for monitoring.

• Support HTTPS access to remotely hosted Active Console resources, such as Gateway connection files and remote dockables.

• Enhanced IBM i File Member plugin to monitor the capacity of file member records.

• Undo and redo key functions for editable text fields in the Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor.

• Updated Docker images for Gateway and Netprobe.

Geneos 5.7.x

Released: April 2021

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Migration tool for centralised Gateway configuration.
• New IBM i File Member plugin for monitoring the capacity of records within file members.
• Schema-less publishing to Gateway Hub.
• Simplified Dynamic Entities.
• Plugin improvements.
• Improve handling of fonts in the Web Dashboard.
• Ability to disable weak cipher suites when encrypting communication between Geneos components.
• New plugins and integrations documentation page.

Geneos 5.6.x

Released: February 2021

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• IBM i JDBC plugin can now publish query results to Geneos streams to be consumed by other plugins, such as File Keyword Monitor and State Tracker.
• SQL Toolkit plugin now supports Windows authentication for Linux environments.
• Gateway now supports connecting to Gateway Hub using Hub Application Keys. This simplifies the configuration required to securely connect to Gateway Hub.
• You can now adjust the width of the Metrics view navigation pane to improve visibility.

Geneos 5.5.x

Released: November 2020

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• The new IBM i JDBC plugin lets you query DB2 databases running in IBM i.
• Gateway Database Logging for MSSQL Server now supports the Kerberos authentication.
• Improved support for Geneos components to work in deployments where communication is required to pass through load balancers.
• Improved support for user-friendly display names in the Active Console for probe, entity, and sampler.

Geneos 5.4.x

Released: September 2020

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Self-monitoring in Geneos is now enabled by default with no configuration required.
• Both Gateway and Netprobe are now available as Docker images for easy deployment. You can download them from the ITRS docker registry.
• The Control-M plugin now supports BMC Control-M versions 9.0.19 and 9.0.20.
• Tibco EMS plugins now support client and server-side SSL authentication for more secure connectivity.
• FTM plugin can now identify and monitor file transfers that occur on a specific day of the month, specific weekday, or business day of a month.

Geneos 5.3.x

Released: July 2020

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Collect and monitor log files from IBM i systems.
• Automate Netprobe configuration using environment macros.
• Improved CyberArk password vault support.

Geneos 5.2.x

Released: June 2020

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Active Console workspace improvements.
• Cloud Foundry plugin.
• Demo mode for Gateway.
• Improved administration for Dynamic Entities.
• Netprobe Discovery.
• State Tracker enhancements.

Geneos 5.1.x

Released: March 2020

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Monitoring dynamic and orchestrated environments require Geneos to be more dynamic. From on-demand and elastic server availability in cloud to containers or microservices, and orchestrators, such as Kubernetes and OpenShift, this release introduces a number of new features to make configurations easier and automate monitoring.
• MiniGeneos delivers a full stack of Geneos capabilities in a self-contained, easy to use, and localised container environment that can be run locally in your own development machine.
• New discovery framework for Self-Announcing Netprobes to make configurations easier.
• Geneos now supports integration with CyberArk password vault so that you no longer need to store passwords in Gateway configuration.
• Netprobe documentation has been restructured, and now includes information on deploying to dynamic environments with Collection Agent. For more information, see Netprobe Documentation Home.
• Other improvements:
  • Support for Red Hat 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, and Ubuntu 18.04.
  • Improvements to Active Console light-theme interface for better contrast and visibility.
  • Library updates to resolve known security vulnerabilities.

Geneos 5.0.x

Released: December 2019

For detailed release notes, see 5.x Release Notes

These are the highlights of this release:

• The Publisher plugin is a new plug-in that enables you to publish data from an FKM outbound stream to an index on the Elasticsearch.
• Centralised configuration now allows you to manage the Gateway configuration using REST API.
• The Web Console monitoring UI brings a brand new look for real-time monitoring.
• Active Console introduces a new light theme interface.
• Geneos data source for Grafana (Technology Preview) lets you seamlessly integrate data from Gateway Hub into your Grafana dashboards.
• Events such as severity, snooze, and user assignment data can now be queried using Gateway Hub REST API.
• Gateway Hub check script is introduced to help validate your environment before installing Gateway Hub.
• Other improvements:
  • Gateway now uses the time zones files store in /usr/share/zoneinfo of the base machine to translate times between time zones.
  • Gateway now uses standard date and time format for log files generated by Geneos components.
  • Support for POST and PUT requests in the REST Extractor plug-in.
  • Enhanced memory monitoring metrics for the Hardware plug-in.
  • Support for Windows 2019.
  • Postgresql support for the Gateway Database Logging.
  • Support for MySQL 8, Oracle Database 19c, and MS SQL Server 2017.

Geneos 4.13.x

Released: October 2019

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Anomaly Detection feature now uses data sets from the Gateway Hub with daily and weekly seasonality.
• Netprobe no longer restarts when you configure certain Java-based plugins.
• Improved support for type trades in FIX Analyser 2.
• AWS integration now supports configurable aggregation intervals, and user-defined column orders.
• New debug option in the REST Extractor plug-in now shows HTTP requests and responses.
• Issues that caused memory leaks on Windows Netprobe were fixed.
• Updated Netprobe REST API page.
• Gateway Hub 1.5.0 introduces the following new features:
  • Anomaly detection rules.
  • Kafka publishing filter.
  • Role-based security.

Geneos 4.12.x

Released: July 2019

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Orchestrated Netprobe solution is now available.
• Active Console is now available on macOS and Ubuntu platforms.
• Improved Centralised Configuration of Gateways.
• Improved publishing to Gateway Hub.
• New Filter in FIX Analyser 2 Message Detector View to filter on Order State.
• New REST API plug-in is now available for general access.
• Java plug-in user experience improvements.
• New Netprobe configuration options for REST API connections.
• New Netprobe installer option for SSL certificate key.

Geneos 4.11.x

Released: May 2019

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Centralised Gateways allow Gateway to store its setup in the Gateway Hub.
• Improved the Context-sentive help (CSH) in Gateway Setup Editor (Gateway Setup Editor).
• Improved responsive design for viewing documentation on mobile.
• Multiple managed entities are now supported on Self-Announcing Netprobes.
• Netprobe is now available as an RPM package.
• The Object Inspector dockable that supports the style, properties, and datasets of objects is now available in the Active Dashboard.
• The REST Extractor plug-in is a new plug-in for reading data from REST API.
• Set command line arguments from a file.
• Single sign-on works for Gateway Setup Editor (GSE).
• New Integrations:
  • Kubernetes Monitoring
  • Openshift Monitoring
  • RabbitMQ Monitoring

Geneos 4.10.x

Released: January 2019

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• The Show tooltip on hover option was added to dashboard properties.
• More flexible Active Time configuration to support day of month options.
• Control-M plug-in based on Control-M’s REST API now supports Control-M versions 9.0.18 and above.
• Gateway command now requires user input for commands that can improve workflow and auditing.
• Improved integration and self-monitoring of Gateway to Gateway Hub connectivity.
• Kerberos support for accessing remote configuration files.
• The Object Inspector was a pilot feature released for which displays some modifiers and links properties of dashboard objects.
• Password sanitisation in Gateway Setup Editor.
• User Assignment is now populated from Active Directory users.
• SampleNow command (executed from Managed entity or Sampler) now updates the currently displayed Metrics dataview.
• Self-Announcing Netprobes was improved to easily manage large scale dynamic environments.
• Setup configuration can now be specified from a remote source in the Netprobe.
• Simplified version of the comments can be enabled in the Gateway Setup Editor.

Geneos 4.9.x

Released: October 2018

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• In the Active Console > Active Pie Chart settings, you can now modify the starting angle by setting the value in the Orientation (degrees) field.
• It is now possible to create a Bar Chart in Active Dashboard.
• Encrypt settings now allow you to encrypt settings that cannot be set in cleartext.
• The Exegy adapter for MDM plugin was enhanced.
• kafkacat is now shipped with Linux 64-bit Gateway.
• File Keyword Monitor and File Transfer Monitor plug-ins introduce new extended date generation keywords.
• Operating Environment now instructs the Gateway to reject connections from every component with versions older than the specified version.
• Improved schema management for Gateway Hub Publishing.
• Target Marker now converts a dataset into a target marker in Active Charts.
• Gateway Setup Editor usability improvements.
• The Database Query Arguments window has been renamed to User Defined Parameters.
• You can now use Kerberos to connect to Kafka.
• You can now use SASL authentication for publishing.
• New Integrations:
  • Citrix XenApp Monitoring
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Velocimetrics Health Monitoring
  • Azure Monitor
  • Google Stackdriver

Geneos 4.8.x

Released: July 2018

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Gateway Setup Editor continues to support current open format for publishing to Kafka.
• Easy access to metric and event history in Active Console.
• File Transfer Monitor plug-in now supports extended date generation keywords.
• Improved alerting in the Gateway alerts with respect to snoozing in order to reduce the number of alerts triggered.
• Gateway time zone and offset allows you to issue remote REST commands with “data and time” parameters without having to first calculate the time difference.
• Gateway Hub Publishing now stores and retrieves metric and event history. This includes event snapshot and snapshots payload schema.
• Includes Data plug-in in the Gateway was enhanced for you to see the last user who edited a setup file, the name of the workstation, and the Gateway these were authenticated with.
• Logging of Snoozed and User Assign events was improved to provide full audit trail of activity.
• JMX port for remote monitoring now monitors the performance of Web Dashboard using new metrics exposed through JMX.
• Managed Entities plug-in in the Gateway allows you to list the busiest dataviews on a managed entity using a command.
• Latency library for MDM plugin was optimised to improve memory usage.
• The Workspace settings in the Active Console now include the configuration for Gateway Hub.
• You can now use a wildcard * to allow global access in the properties.
• New Integrations:
  • Amazon Web Services Monitoring
  • ITRS Synthetic Monitoring (powered by Apica)

Geneos 4.7.x

Released: May 2018

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Consistent argument parsing for actions and commands to simplify configuration.
• Market Data Monitor plug-in introduces ICE Feed Adapter for ICE Market Data Services.
  • Real-time monitoring for consolidated feed provided by ICE Data Services.
• The scoring criteria in Paths scoring were improved to identify expensive XPath in the Active Console.
• The behaviour for action and command scripts run on Netprobe and Gateway is now consistent:
  • Gateway Actions and Effects argument parsing behaviour.
  • Gateway commands argument parsing behaviour.
• The cpuClockSpeed in the Hardware plug-in now displays the maximum speed frequency of the first CPU found by Netprobe.
• SSL certificate authentication was added for Webslinger.

Geneos 4.6.x

Released: April 2018

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• New monitoring integrations with data storage, messaging, and orchestration platform.

• Self-contained downloadable packages that can be integrated with many applications and services to collect key performance metrics.

• Built on core plug-ins and features, such as JMX and Toolkit.

• Active Console introduces a new path dockable that can display all XPaths and identify which XPaths are likely to be expensive. This enables you to optimise the use of XPaths and improve performance of Active Console.

• Search results in the Active Console can now be converted into List Views dockable, allowing you to save your favourite search results.

• New 64-bit Active Console is now available to improve compatibility with 64-bit libraries.

• Active Dashboard improvements that allow you to:

  • Temporarily hide dashboard objects, allowing you to easily access and edit dashboards.
  • Trigger follow selection events from within dashboards by simulating user selection. This enables more interactive user experience of the dashboards by allowing dashboards to be reconfigured by selecting other dashboard objects.
  • Open multiple links on a dashboard object at the same time.

• Gateway can now store environment configuration in a more efficient manner, reducing the memory footprint, especially in large setup.

• New integrations:

  • ActiveMQ Monitoring
  • Cassandra Monitoring
  • Docker Monitoring
  • Elasticsearch Monitoring
  • Hadoop Monitoring
  • Kafka Monitoring
  • Kubernetes Monitoring
  • MongoDB Monitoring
  • Postgresql Monitoring
  • Zookeeper Monitoring

Geneos 4.5.x

Released: January 2018

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Gateway sharing feature is used to export a subset of monitoring data from one Gateway and import it into another. Gateway sharing of commands allows you to apply their own rules on the same set of data, aggregate visualisation of data derived from multiple Gateways, and to easily share data across regions and teams. The ability to share commands along with data provides greater level of access and control over the shared data.
• Sharing of commands require both Gateways to be using Single Sign On. This ensures existing controls over permissions are maintained.
• These commands can be shared between Gateways:
  • Probes commands defined by a sampler that run in the Netprobe.
  • User commands defined in the exporting that run in the Netprobe.
  • Sample Now and View Netprobe log.
  • Snooze commands.
  • User Assignment commands.
  • Show Rules.
• Heartbeat function for API Stream plug-in now provides better status of the process generating the stream.
• Hardware plugin now includes more metrics and provides a consistent view across supported platforms:
  • New metrics include NTP service availability and local clock offset, hardware vendor, CPU model, and clock speed.
  • Replaced the timeDifference metric with ntpAvailability and ntpLocalClockOffset metrics. These two new metrics provide a more accurate measurement for time difference based on NTP service.
  • In case of multi-CPU or multi-cores Windows servers, the cpuUtilisation represents the average across cores/CPUs, instead of the heaviest loaded logical processor.
  • On Solaris, swapUsed is based on swap -l command, instead of swap -s. A new metric called swapUsed (virtual) is available that is based on swap -s command.
  • On Linux and Solaris, cpuUtilisation now takes CPU wait times into account.

Geneos 4.4.x

Released: December 2017

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• A new Single Sign-On and Active Directory integration:
• Integration with Active Directory that secures centrally managed access, improves audit control, and makes the maintenance easier.
• Supports passwordless login using and NTLM.
• Compatible with the existing Gateway Roles and Permissions.
• Gateway Annotations allow you to configure text to be passed into actions and alerts based upon data items on which these are triggered. For example, this makes it possible to place text specific to data items into an email, independent of rules, actions, and effect configuration.
• Extractor plugin now supports parsing JSON data for creating dataviews.
• Extended rule syntax for userdata to support more data types, such as dataview name, managed entity attributes, active, and snooze states. This makes it easier to define userdata directly in rule syntax without having to specify variables.
• You can now restrict access to Gateway sharing data sets to specific users.
• Gateway sharing connectivity between Gateways can now use SSL certificate for password less authentication.
• Active Console to support connecting to Sybase database with password encryption enabled.
• MQ plug-in supports encrypted password for security exit configuration.

Geneos 4.3.x

Released: October 2017

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Improved load balancing of Self-Announcing Netprobes:
• The algorithm used to allocate Self-Announcing Netprobes between Gateways has been enhanced so that Gateways can inform each Netprobe about the other Netprobes that are negotiating a connection.
• This ensures that the load is evenly distributed if many Netprobes are started at once, or if the number of Netprobes have to choose between two or more remaining Gateways when one Gateway stops.
• Improved password security in the Gateway configuration.
• JRE and Spring security library updates.
• SSL client authentication for Webmon plugin.
• Improved X plugins connectivity.
• Improved file name matching for file related plugins.

Geneos 4.2.x

Released: August 2017

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Gateway Setup Editor usability usability improvements include:
• Number of fixes to improve sizing of input fields.
• Improved linking to errors in include files so you can quickly identify the correct section of the setup file.
• GSE now supports copying and pasting named items from one setup file to another. Previously, this was only possible within a setup file.
• GSE now warns you if the changes that are about to be applied might remove the ability for them to make further changes to the setup.
• You can now use follow selection paths in the Active Dashboard.
• Gateway and Netprobe now support SSL verification to establish a secure communication between these Geneos components.
• Gateway can start up and continue to run when read/write problems are detected in the Gateway cache.
• Geneos stringList variables can now be used within Rules.

Geneos 4.1.x

Released: May 2017

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Gateway adds new REST endpoints to easily get the list of targets against which to execute commands. This makes it easier to query the Gateway and generate valid targets so that scripts and external applications can execute Gateway commands.
• Gateway load statistics help monitor Gateway performance include statistics that record time spent on running code related to REST service. This monitors the impact of external scripts and applications executing Gateway commands through the REST interface.
• Gateway setup validation now allows you to:
  • Validate running Gateways through REST service so that automated checks can be run to make sure best practices and standards are applied consistently.
  • Generate structured output to JSON format that makes it easier to consume by another processes or applications.
• Gateway supports configuration settings for Dynamic Gateway connections to improve hostname resolutions.
• Netprobe and Active Console are now supported on Windows Server 2016 operating system.
• Improved error messages for Perfmon plugin.

Geneos 4.0.x

Released: February 2017

For detailed release notes, see 4.x Release Notes.

These are the highlights of this release:

• Provides an upgrade path to new components and capabilities without breaking existing Geneos 3.x.x deployments.
• Seamless upgrade from Geneos 3.x.x and all core Geneos components such as Active Console, Netprobe plugins, Gateway, Netprobe, and Web Dashboard.
  • All existing Gateway configurations, rules, API plug-in integrations, toolkits, dashboards, and any custom integrations will continue to work with Geneos 4.x.x release.
• Updated compatibility with operating systems, libraries and the underlying build infrastructure to support continued maintenance.
• Applications that consume Gateway Published data can now request Gateways to resend directory data information such as probe, managed entity, and attributes. This helps consuming applications to catch up on information about the Gateway directory hierarchy to process consumed messages.
• Applications that consume Gateway Published data can now request snapshots of a set of dataviews.
• Gateway Publishing stats utility to understand the amount of data that the Gateway publishes which helps to define resource requirements for the consuming applications.
• Gateway REST service for Commands now supports ability to get list of all available commands on a specific target for the user whose credentials are used to make the request.
• New Active Console default workspace with useful list views (Geneos health, assigned to me, snoozed) and a home dashboard to help you get started are now available.
• Unicode support for Active Dashboard objects.
• New modifiers for Active Dashboard to link cell value to colour, or to control image, and text transparency.
• User-defined application name for database connections so database access from Geneos can be easily identified.
• Support connection authentication for MQ plug-ins to establish a more secure connection to IBM MQ.
• Support for the following platforms:
  • 64-bit Web Dashboard on Solaris x86 and Sparc.
  • Digitally signed Windows binaries.
  • SAP/Sybase ASE 16.1 and 16.2.
  • MSSQL Server 2016.
  • Postgres 9.5 and 9.6.
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 45.x and 49.x.
  • MS Edge 38.
  • Tibco EMS 8.3.
  • IBM MQ 8,0 and 9.0.
  • IBM i 7.2 and 7.3.