Wavefront Integration -- General Availability

CloudHealth now supports customers using Wavefront for metrics collection. With this new integration, the CloudHealth platform continues to collect the following performance metrics: CPU, memory, disk usage, and network I/O.CloudHealth collects your Wavefront sources across Amazon EC2 Instances and Azure Virtual Machines and allows you to view those metrics in our asset and metrics reports. More importantly, these metrics are used to power CloudHealth’s rightsizing engine to determine optimal placement of your workloads onto the correct type of instance or virtual machine.

When configuring the integration use your Wavefront Account ID and API access key. Learn more about the CloudHealth integration with Wavefront in this Help Center article.

New CloudHealth User Interface Design -- Final Reminder

As previously announced, on January 15th the new CloudHealth User Interface design became the default for all customers and partners. We will still allow the option to turn off the new design until February 4th, when the switch will become permanent. We’re excited about this change and we think you’ll enjoy it too!The enhancements consist of a cleaner and simplified style, removal of unnecessary distractions and wasted space, consistency of key elements in the interface, and adjustments to font and color to improve accessibility. These design changes will fundamentally change the tone and experience of the CloudHealth platform. Please note that the navigation of CloudHealth will not fundamentally change with this update. You will not lose access to any functionality nor have we changed the access to any part of the application.

Update to Amazon EC2 Cross-Family Rightsizing

We are excited to announce that we have upgraded our EC2 Instance rightsizing recommendations engine. You will now be able to get recommendations to downgrade your underutilized instances from C, M, R, T, Z, I, H, D, X, or Z instance families to another if the workload and resource requirements of the application are satisfied. When downgrading to a different instance family, it is essential to make sure that the current instance type and the new instance type are compatible in terms of virtualization type, processor type, disk type, burstable performance, etc. We are making these recommendations when there are additional savings opportunities and it’s safe to do so. You will also be able to decide if you want recommendations to include downgrading to burstable performance instances. 

Learn more about EC2 Instance Cross-Family Rightsizing in this Help Center article.

Update to AWS Pulse Reports

To further enhance your cost optimization efforts, we have incorporated EC2 Convertible RI Exchange savings into both the Health Check Pulse Report and the EC2 RI Utilization Pulse Report!

Health Check Pulse Report

EC2 RI Utilization Pulse Report

Update to CIS Azure Foundations Security Policy

Following the release of our CIS Azure Foundations Security Policy, we are happy to announce we have added a new section to the Azure Service Principal page in CloudHealth called Security Asset Collection. You now have the ability to opt-out of or in to specific security asset collection if you wish to cease or re-start the collection of data of a specific asset. By disabling collection of an asset, you will be deactivating the policies to which it is tied. 

By default, we will be collecting information on the following security assets:

• Active Directory Role Definitions

• Active Directory Users

• Key Vault Keys

• Key Vault Secrets

• SQL Database Auditings

• SQL Database Threat Detections

• SQL Server Auditings

• SQL Server Firewall Rules

• SQL Server Threat Detections

• Subscription Security Policies

Please note that no encrypted, insecure, or harmful data around these assets are being collected, CloudHealth is only gathering metadata around each of these assets to support the CIS Azure Foundations Security Policy and accurately build the Violation Report.

Update to the CloudHealth Aggregator

The CloudHealth platform collects information from VMware environments via a virtual appliance, known as the CloudHealth Aggregator. We are releasing a new version of this virtual appliance in which we have added collection of new VMware assets that includes Data Center, Cluster, Host, NIC and VM Disk information. This update is required in order take advantage of future enhancements. Any virtual appliances set to auto update will do so in the coming weeks. Learn more about installing the CloudHealth Aggregator in this Help Center article.