8.1

Owned by Henrik Wendt
Last updated: Oct 06, 2021 by Oliver Villumsen
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PerformanceGuard® 8.1 Release Notes

Release date: 2020, July 17th

What's New in the Server?

Cloud Services with Office 365 Monitoring

With PG 8.1, PerformanceGuard is able to monitor Cloud Services by using the IP data collected by the agents. 

Integrate PerformanceGuard with CapaOne Services.

The Office 365 Service collects data from service areas Common, Exchange, SharePoint & Skype to be presented in dashboards. The solution comes with 3 prebuilt dashboards that will be automatically downloaded and installed when the service is enabled.

Office 365 Dashboard showing events and traffic for different 'Service Provider' areas.

Scheduled Reports

Dashboard reports is a way to schedule the creation of PDF-files of a dashboard with a user defined frequency and automatically send these to subscribers. Setting up  dashboard reports are done directly from the dashboard itself. Administrators can view the generated reports and edit the configuration.

Setup a scheduled Report.


Improved Installation Wizard

To Simplify and reduce the upgrade challenges we decided to give the installer an overhaul. Now all connections and properties are maintained from the same file. Also we removed the need to go into an administrative command prompt.

Screenshot from the new Advanced PG Installer.

Data Export to Excel

Widgets containing tables and graph now now has an option to download the raw data used in the presentation. To use it simply click the -button to download the raw data from the widget.

Excel Export snippet





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

Bug

  • [PG-17628] - highcharts tooltip is hidden when using fullscreen
  • [PG-17631] - Powershell Downloaded file from autosteps is HTML encoded
  • [PG-17652] - Reset "Custom thumbnail" does not work.
  • [PG-17655] - Process List widget is rendered wrong in print
  • [PG-17656] - Timeline chart statistics are rendered wrong in printMode
  • [PG-17661] - save dashboard fails with proxies
  • [PG-17670] - No massuremenets in Chromium
  • [PG-17685] - Computer Bubble Chart must have scrollablePlotArea when many categories are used
  • [PG-17687] - Agent stops working on CI integrated Performanceguard Agent
  • [PG-17697] - Duplicate widget not working
  • [PG-17700] - Navigational Link in Application Status widget -> dialog is broken
  • [PG-17705] - Improved errorhandling when sending email reports
  • [PG-17717] - "SQL Server - Windows Performance Counters" dashboard is not set up correct
  • [PG-17719] - When using Application groups. Availibility in % shows wrong value
  • [PG-17721] - Database lock when showing application charts
  • [PG-17722] - Autoupdate not working
  • [PG-17726] - Dashboard unique name error message
  • [PG-17727] - Not possible to type in HTML field in custom widget
  • [PG-17738] - Removing/Resetting Thumbnail doesn't work.
  • [PG-17740] - SNOW attach PDF fix
  • [PG-17761] - IE Helper only matches first regex
  • [PG-17764] - Autosteps groups timezone saves value from previous created group
  • [PG-17769] - Application Sunburst widget: Wrong affected count in center circle
  • [PG-17775] - Location Sunburst: Wrong affected count in events dialogue

Improvement

  • [PG-16699] - Fixed Graph colors
  • [PG-17550] - Added favorite a Dashboard from the Dashboard itself.
  • [PG-17554] - Make it possible to configure a widget in full-screen mode.
  • [PG-17567] - Must be possible to persist graph/statistics state
  • [PG-17569] - Added description field for widgets
  • [PG-17579] - Applications should be added to Manually joined Server ports
  • [PG-17581] - Disabled Automatic population of monitored servers
  • [PG-17636] - Deleted a dashboard from edit/view self


Browser Support

This version is supported in both Microsoft Edge and new the 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.

Download

PerformanceGuard can be downloaded from  here

Known Issues

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