PG 8.0

Owned by Henrik Wendt
Last updated: Oct 06, 2021 by Oliver Villumsen
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PerformanceGuard® 8.0 Release Notes

Release date: 2020, April 21st

What's New in the Server?

GUI Makeover

To make it even simpler to for the user to find the relevant dashboards this new version of PerformanceGuard has a redesigned Screen Layout where the Classic top menu has been iconified and moved to the left side of the screen. 

A Home page button ()  with a list of Latest and Favorites  Dashboards-thumbnails has been introduced on the top of this menu. 

Also, a Dashboard page button () with a number of filers to search and select the desired dashboard, has been introduced. Select ( ) to get to a view similar to PG 7.6.

Dashboards thumbnails can either be generated on-demand or whenever changes are saved.

Screenshot of  PG 8.0 Landing page.

Template Dashboards

The built-in dashboards that existed with PG 7.6 have been replaced with a set of templates. When adding widgets to a dashboard the user is now presented with a "templates"-tab. This tab holds several widget-sets that could be added directly to a dashboard in one go.

E.g. Setting up a  SQL Server - Windows Performance Counters can now be done just a few key presses. The set of templates are stored and maintained remotely and will be continuously improved and expanded, always offering the user the best and updated set.

Templates offers the user to quickly setup a new dashboard.

Split Application Traffic by Process

Besides splitting traffic data on the servers defined by the application its now also possible to split traffic by the process defined by the application.

When doing so the widget will show graphs for all versions seen for the defined process. To make this possible the application definition has been updated to include a process.

3rd Party upgrades of HighCharts and Material UI

The new version of PerformanceGuards has been upgraded to use HighCharts 8.0. which has improved the overall integration with this component and speeded up the application.


ServiceNow certified with Orlando

The PerformanceGuard Incident Management Connector has been certified with the new ServiceNow Orlando release and approved with this new version PG 8.0.


Moreover, a great number of improvements and bug-fixes has been implemented (The most important ones mentioned below)

Bugs fixed in this version

Bug

  • [PG-16627] - Configuration does not always update correctly when editing a Web application
  • [PG-17272] - Threshold text does not show
  • [PG-17324] - Computer info widget: Average of all computers seems to be calculated on sub-networks, i.e. not all computers
  • [PG-17400] - Application Performance Overview fails with certain data
  • [PG-17410] - Agent Crashes on Citrix 7 1808
  • [PG-17446] - Computer Chart does not clean up / merge properly when using process names and metrics
  • [PG-17563] - Renaming an application shall rename the linked event rule
  • [PG-17605] - remove unused filters
  • [PG-17606] - Restrict user / role that can upload a new license.
  • [PG-17607] - In Guest mode: Location Sunburst (prob. also app. sunburst) do not pass the clicked location upwards to the dashboard controller

Improvement

  • [PG-16828] - MSI installer check SQL Server Version before installing DB
  • [PG-17296] - Replace built-in dashboards with templates
  • [PG-17417] - Easy Upgrade Notifications
  • [PG-17561] - It should be possible to navigate from a computer event list to an application widget
  • [PG-17405] - Better scalable Performance Index Gauge
  • [PG-17407] - Split Threshold to always show both adaptive and static


Browser Support

This version is supported in both Microsoft Edge and new Chromium-based Edge as well as Google Chrome.

Documentation 

The PerformanceGuard documentation is continuously updated and is available online here

Discontinuation

This is the latest release of PerformanceGuard Server that supports installation on Windows Server 2008/ 2008 R2 and 2012.

Internet explorer filters will be phased out and we recommend start using chromium filters from now.

Download

PerformanceGuard can be downloaded from  here

Known Issues

Visit the online  known issues list  to receive the latest info.