We’ve added a new agent – Mongo. Lot’s of UI changes, making observIQ even easier to set up and navigate. Templates now include default values that will generate valuable insights in most common use cases. We’ve also added dashboard templates for Mac and Windows, and tooltips for quickly solving agent errors… if those errors don’t fix themselves – we also added backend optimizations to automatically fix issues and restart interrupted connections.

Features

• Agents
  • Added Mongo Agent – great for collecting logs from multiple containers, front, and backend activity

Changes

• Agents
  • UI changes for easier navigation
• Templates
  • UI changes for easier navigation
• Sources
  • Added button in sources to jump to Explore or Live Tail with source filter applied

Improvements

• Agents
  • Added tooltips for quickly solving agent errors.
  • Automatically installs corresponding sources for Mac and Linux agents
  • General optimizations, including automatic restart process if connection is interrupted
• Templates
  • Templates are now populated with commonly used default values
• Sign Up
  • Users guided through setup process immediately after sign up
• Dashboards
  • Added userful premade dashboards for MacOS and Windows

Fixes

• User Permissions
  • Set restrictions on permissions that restricted users can give other users
• Alerts
  • Fixed issue where slack alerts occasionally did not include k8s metadata

This week we are excited to announce a new extended retention feature, included in all plans, that allows you to automatically compress and archive all of your logs directly to your AWS account. We’ve also made improvements to sign up and set up, UI, installation and uninstallation, and account management.

Features

• Extended Retention
  • Archive logs automatically to an AWS S3 Bucket
    • Connect AWS S3 bucket with account ID and secret access key
    • Logs compressed and archived every hour
    • Included in all plans
  • See archive list directly in observIQ
    • Clicking an archive opens file location in AWS
  • observIQ automatically detects invalid or inaccurate AWS credentials
    • Any failed archiving attempts will retry when new credentials are entered

Changes

• Documentation
  • Changed documentation on Windows, Linux, and MacOS installation process to be more streamlined
  • Added docs for Kubernetes and OpenShift

Improvements

• Sign In and Set Up
  • New users have the option to go straight to setup before confirming their email
• Fleet
  • Improved install/uninstall scripts
• Live Tail
  • Added support for wildcard queries

Fixes

• Sign up/Set up
  • Fixed issue where users would see an error message after accepting an invite to create an observIQ account even though the account was created successfully

Everything is running smoothly at observIQ this week. This update comes with some valuable quality of life improvements to the platform, a new Dashboard plugin, and improvements to set up, Alerts, and Live Tail.

Features

• Dashboards
  • Added Netflow plugin
• Alerts
  • Added feature to disable notification expiration timer

Changes

• Sign In and Set Up
  • New Customer plans will automatically freeze after trial expiration, rather than accumulate logs and invoices
    • Plans can still be chosen before expiration, or picked up any time after
    • Free plan is still 100% free
• Kubernetes
  • Events source now omits log lines from expired events

Improvements

• Sign In and Set Up
  • Optimized backend processes so account creation and initial setup is even faster
  • Improved verification email
    • Additional information
    • Automatic light/dark theme
    • Added backup link in case verification fails
• Live Tail
  • Exceeding throughput limit no longer stops data stream
  • Updated ‘Sources’ filter to include all valid sources
• Alerts
  • Custom Alerts setup fields are automatically populated with relevant settings
    • Settings can still be fully customized

Fixes

• Live Tail
  • Fixed issue where Live Tail ‘Type’ filter would not narrow displayed results
• Alerts
  • Fixed issue where some Alerts would not include relevant log lines attached

We’re excited to announce some big releases, including lower pricing, automated deployments, programmable alerts, easier sign up, and valuable changes to Live Tail.

Features

• Automated Deployment with Ansible
  • Simple ‘configuration as code’ solution
  • Automatically deploy observeIQ Cloud agents across any/all Linux hosts
  • Deploy custom templates with simple Template ID’s
  • Store deployment code in Git to version deployments
• Alerts
  • Added fully programmable alerts under  Advanced Options when creating an alert

Changes

• Reduced Pricing
  • Billing period minimum charges reduced to $5, $10, or $50 depending on retention tier
    • Prices per GB remain $0.75, $1.00, and $1.50 respectively
  • Existing paid accounts will automatically move to reduced minimum pricing at the start of their next billing period
• Sign Up
  • Confirmation emails now redirect users to setup page rather than back to login
    • For security, this feature only works on machines that already have login credentials, otherwise email redirect goes to login page

Improvements

• Live Tail
  • General improvements for higher efficiency and responsiveness
  • Added more detailed messages in Live Tail stream
    • Clearer messages for start/stop and messages to indicate that Live Tail is running even if no tracked events are occurring
  • Live Tail will remain active even if no events occur for a long period of time
• Sign Up
  • New message and animation indicates when an account is being created
• Archives
  • Optimization improvements to archive log files
  • Automatically remove duplicate logs

Fixes

• Live Tail
  • Fixed issue where new searches would briefly display results from previous searches
  • Fixed issue with delayed response from Start button after stopping Live Tail
• Sign Up
  • Fixed issue where new users invited to existing accounts were not receiving proper invite information
  • Fixed issue where duplicate company profiles could be created at sign up

This week at observIQ, we are excited to release new alerts customizations, support for new sources, improved setup UI, install/uninstall guides, and the official launch of a powerful new feature for real time event and log tracking – Live Tail.

Features

• Live Tail
  • Monitor logs across all deployments in real time
  • Search for specific events or key phrases to filter logs as they occur
  • Start/stop event log at will
  • Record/save event streams
  • And much more!
• Alerts
  • Alerts can now send relevant log lines along with alert notifications
• Sources
  • Added source: MacOS
  • Added source: uWSGI
  • Added source: Ubiquiti
  • Added source: Netflow/sflow
  • Added Source: CodeIgniter
  • Added Source: Apache Common
  • Added Source: Apache Combined

Changes

• Plugins
  • Openshift plugin: metadata is now optional
• Sign Up
  • No telephone number required

Improvements

• Setup
  • Improved UI and guidance through setup process
  • Added source deployment guide
  • Added uninstallation guide for removing agents
• Billing
  • Simplified billing and account preferences interface
  • Visual confirmation of payment processing through Stripe (before payment confirmation)
• General efficiency improvements

Fixes

• Search
  • Fixed issue where time picker would disappear while using search field
  • Fixed issue where ‘filter out’ search option would not add filter to the search bar
• Windows
  • Fixed issue where Windows agents could not properly sync with local timezone