What's new in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.9.1

Get a quick overview of what is new with IBM Cloud Pak® for AIOps.

IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps leverages AI to streamline IT operations, increase uptime, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. The solution supports Operations teams to deliver optimum performance and assurance by:

  • Breaking down data silos
  • Providing real-time insights into IT systems
  • Augmenting incident management with AI
  • Automating incident resolution

With Version 4.9.1, IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps delivers improved capabilities and new features for installing, runbooks, topology, and more.

For details on all of the new features and changes introduced with this IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps version, review the following sections:

Install and upgrade

Hybrid storage You can use a mixture of local storage and distributed network storage for new deployments of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Red Hat OpenShift. Learn more

zLinux support Support is added for installing IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (non-FIPS) on s390x architectures. Learn more

Upgrade procedure catalog source updates (IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Red Hat OpenShift) The namespace for the catalog source changed from openshift-marketplace to ${INSTALL_MODE_NAMESPACE} in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps v4.9.0. Learn more

Image mirroring options for offline deployments (IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform) The installation, upgrade and backup procedures are updated to support image mirroring using ImageDigestMirrorSet (IDMS) in addition to the existing ImageContentSourcePolicy (ICSP) option. Learn more

Managing applications (services) and viewing topologies

New alert correlation time window functionality

When defining templates to generate resource groups, you can now specify a time window to group alerts pertaining to groups created from this template. For more information, see step 11 of Building resource group templates.

Automating processes (Policies, Runbooks, Actions)

  • Runbooks:

    • The Preview runbook and View runbook activity details pages provide information about conditional branching for action steps if the related runbook has conditional branching configured.

    • The Run runbook page allows you to run a fully automated runbook as an automated activity. For more information, see Run your first runbook.

    • HTTP actions can be configured to access supported Cloud Pak for AIOps APIs. At runtime, the initiating user's authentication information is passed through automatically to the referenced API, which removes the need for manual credential management inside these action definitions. This feature now extends to automated runbook activities provided that they are started by a user directly (via the API or the UI).

    • The example runbook for administering runbook data storage has been refactored. For more information, see Administering CouchDB data storage.

Resolving incidents and alerts

You can customize the Alert Viewer and Incidents list toolbars to control which widgets are shown or hidden. For more information, see Setting user preferences for the Alert Viewer and Setting user preferences for the Incidents list.

Non-production (technology preview)

  • Visualizing analytics with IBM Cognos Analytics: The supported capabilities when integrating with IBM Cognos Analytics are improved:

    • You can create policies to send the alert or incident data from IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps to populate a dashboard or report in IBM Cognos® Analytics. For more information about using policies to send data for a dashboard or report, see Populating a dashboard or report.

    • A new Incident list widget and Button widget are available for use in building a custom dashboard. For more information about the available widgets that you can use, see IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps widgets within IBM Cognos Analytics.

    • Example dashboards are now available to help you learn about the capabilities of the available widgets and to help you create your own dashboard. For more information about creating a dashboard, see Creating a dashboard.

    Overall, this integration provides you with additional tools to create custom dashboards and reports to visualize and analyze your IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps data. When you set up this integration, you can open IBM Cognos Analytics from the Cloud Pak for AIOps console and begin using IBM Cognos Analytics dashboards to build visualizations of your IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps data, such as alert and topology data.

  • Additional feature previews: In addition to the integration with IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps includes the following components and features for non-production use as a technology preview:

    • Incident (Story) prioritization from persistence analysis and golden signals extraction
    • Multi-zone high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)
    • New data collection functionality for Dynatrace integration

For more information about these feature previews, see Non-production features (Technology preview).

Security and compliance

  • Fixed security vulnerabilities: Fixes and updates are included to address reported security-related vulnerabilities with IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps. For more information about the included fixes, see Security bulletins and fixes.

Documentation changes

In addition to the documentation for the preceding new and changed features, the following documentation is updated:

Documentation for previous versions prior to Version 4.6.0 are available as only PDF documents. To view these PDFs, see IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps PDF documentation.

Previously introduced features and changes

For more information about new features and changes that were introduced in previous versions of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, see: