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Date Published
Author
Dimitri Mazmanov
Word count
1209
Language
English
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None

Summary

Elastic Metrics 7.6.0 introduces a range of enhancements for monitoring cloud services, including new integrations for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure Storage, alongside expanded capabilities for AWS billing and usage tracking. The release improves observability by incorporating new metricsets for AWS services, such as billing and usage, allowing for efficient resource management and cost tracking. It also provides custom inventory views for AWS resources like EC2 instances and S3 buckets. The GCP integration leverages Stackdriver for comprehensive metric collection, while Azure Storage monitoring is enhanced with a new metricset. Additional improvements include expanded Kubernetes support with metrics for PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, and Services, as well as updates to the system module in Metricbeat to deliver detailed server behavior insights. The release also introduces new metricsets for Apache ActiveMQ, Kafka, and NATS Streaming services, further bolstering the platform's ability to provide detailed insights across various infrastructures.