Release 3.6
This release includes new features, enhancements and fixes as part of 3.6.
FinOps
Cost Posture
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In Cost > Posture:
-- Only onboarded cloud providers appear in the summary widget.
-- Total cost shows cost data for each cloud account.
-- Save custom page level view and set as a default view.
-- The cloud account cost data includes month wise filter, instead of relative text like previous month, last 3 months, etc. -
In Cost > Posture> Visibility:
-- For multiple month selections, individual month-level cost along with total cost appears.
-- In line charts, data points will not be marked for data not available for a specific day or month.
-- Legends appear for line charts.
Cost Recommendations
- In Recommendation > Category > Cost:
-- Added recommendations with respect to cost governance policies.
Cost Optimizer
- In Cost > Cost Optimizer:
-- Consolidated CoreStack recommender and cloud native recommendations.
Cost Optimization
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For Azure account, added CoreStack rule based cost saving policies.
-- AZURE_MARIADB_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
-- AZURE_MYSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
-- AZURE_PGSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
-- AZURE_SQL_SERVER_DATABASE_SERVERS_IDLE
-- AZURE_SQL_SERVER_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
-- Azure_PGSQL_Database_Servers_Idle
-- Azure_MySQL_Database_Servers_Idle -
For GCP account, added CoreStack rule based cost saving policies.
-- GCP_SQL_SERVER_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
-- GCP_MYSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
-- GCP_PGSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
SecOps
Compliance Posture
- In Compliance > Posture:
-- Grouped standards view against cloud accounts with respect to cloud providers. Resource view grouped under policies for quick remediation. - In Compliance > Posture > Visibility:
-- Added insights into control and resource success and violation. - In Compliance > Posture > Visibility > {Policy Name}:
-- Quick remediation to improve compliance posture.
OneLogin SSO Integration
- Account administrator can enable/disable OneLogin Single Sign-On (SSO) multi factor authentication (MFA) at account level.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- New role as Tenant_admin to create and inherit permissions from Account_admin.
- As an Account/Tenant admin you have an option to create a user group and assign relevant role to the group. Admin can add/remove users from the group.
Compliance Assessment
- Added OCI standard to compliance assessment report.
Enterprise Cloud Compliance (ECC)
- Upgraded AC3 controls to NIST v5
CloudOps
VMware Onboarding
CoreStack allows you to onboard a VMware account. It supports below resources.
- Network Network Networks
- Network Network IP-Ranges
- Network Network Load-Balancer
- Network Network Domains
- Network Network Network-Profiles
- Network Network Security-Groups
- Storage Storage Storages
- Compute Compute Virtual Machine
OCI Onboarding
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Added OCI Activity Post Onboarding configuration. The resource activities are stored and show in operations posture.
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Added OCI Alerts and Activity Post Onboarding configuration. The resource activities are stored and shown in operations posture.
GCP Metrics
Added GCP Metrics
Redis
- clients/blocked
- clients/connected
- commands/calls
- commands/total_time
- commands/usec_per_call
- keyspace/avg_ttl
- keyspace/keys
- keyspace/keys_with_expiration
- persistence/rdb/bgsave_in_progress
- replication/master/slaves/lag
- stats/memory/maxmemory
- stats/memory/system_memory_usage_ratio
- stats/memory/usage
- stats/memory/usage_ratio
Load_Balancing
- https/backend_latencies
- https/backend_request_bytes_count
- https/backend_request_count
- https/backend_response_bytes_count
- https/frontend_tcp_rtt
- https/internal/backend_latencies
- https/internal/request_bytes_count
- https/internal/request_count
- https/internal/response_bytes_count
- https/internal/total_latencies
- https/request_bytes_count
Cloud_Filestore
- nfs/server/average_read_latency
- nfs/server/average_write_latency
- nfs/server/free_bytes
Reports
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OCI Cost Daily - This report tracks the oracle cloud account daily cost for current month and last month. The dimensions include: cloud account, product category and region.
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OCI Cost Monthly - This report tracks the oracle cloud account monthly cost for last 12 months. The dimensions include: cloud account, product category, region and tags.
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OCI Consolidated Charge Report - A paginated report which provides the consolidated cost for last 3 months at resource level.
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AWS Linked Account Cost Report - The executive level can view this report for the spent pattern over quarters, months and so on. It is consolidated view of all cloud services for AWS linked accounts.
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Workspace Analytics - This report tracks the workspace resources related activities, such as cost growth and usage growth. It also provides a view around workspace mode.
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All the reports now includes white labelled logo.
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Added below fields to EC2 instance page.
-- Instance growth
-- Top 10 instance types
-- Server instance cost growth
-- Top 10 Instances based on CPU Consumption
-- Tag & Resource name -
In GCP monthly report, the folder id is stored in the resource wise billing daily and monthly collections and is displayed in the GCP monthly cost reports.
White Labeling
- White-labeled notification emails. Organization name received as input is used in place of Corestack in the email content.
Bug Fixes
- User sessions log out frequently for the Mac users using the Edge browser.
- Access Token is not generated in API production Wrapper.
- Error occurs in policy execution when concurrent compliance standards are executed.
- CoreStack recommended guardrails do not execute post account onboarding.
- CoreStack portal do not load in latest Chrome browser.
- Operational alerts and activity notifications emails are delayed.
- Cost Posture AWS Organization view shows "No Records Found" instead of listing the linked accounts.
- Terraform template execution is completed but the status is not updated in CoreStack.