What's New in Sysdig – August 2023

Sysdig's August 2023 update highlights several significant advancements in cloud security and monitoring. The company introduced Sysdig Sage, a generative AI assistant designed to enhance cloud security by employing multi-step reasoning and multi-domain correlation to detect and address risks more effectively. Sysdig has expanded its agentless threat detection capabilities to include GitHub and Okta, allowing for more comprehensive security across different platforms. New permission items, such as Zones and Posture Policies, have been introduced for improved access control, while the Runtime Rule Tuner interface has been simplified for ease of use. Sysdig Monitor has launched Cost Advisor, which offers detailed insights and optimizations for Kubernetes costs, now generally available with enhanced features like private billing and idle cost support. Additionally, Sysdig's new alerting capabilities allow for more precise alert management, including manual resolution and automatic deactivation of orphaned alerts. The update also includes various improvements and enhancements to metrics usage, monitoring integrations, and Sysdig Agents, with support for Control Group v2 and FIPS compliance. The release notes also mention updates to Sysdig's CLI tools, Terraform provider, and integrations with platforms such as Prometheus and Jenkins. Lastly, the update features improvements in Falco's threat detection rules and introduces new resources, blog posts, and educational content to support Sysdig users.