What's new in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.6.1

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 4.6.1, IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps delivers improved capabilities for integrations, incident management, and viewing log anomaly templates.

Overall, the following new features and changes are introduced with this IBM Cloud Pak version:

Install and upgrade

Installing on Linux® This is a technology preview feature that was introduced in the last release. Uninstall and MustGather (for gathering data about your deployment for troubleshooting purposes) are added for deployments of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps on Linux. Learn more

Defining integrations (connections)

  • For configuring generic webhook integrations, a new Maximum event rate parameter is available. Use this parameter to configure the maximum number of events (per second) that are allowed by the Generic Webhook integration. For more information, see Creating Generic Webhook integrations.

  • For configuring a Dynatrace integration, you can now select to collect topology data. Previously, you could select to collect only metric and event data. For more information, see Creating Dynatrace integrations.

AI model management

  • The performance for loading the Templates tab when viewing Log anomaly detection - golden signals is improved.

Resolving incidents and alerts

  • A new tab for viewing the affected resources for an incident is now available on the Overview page for an incident. The Affected resources tab shows the relationships of impacted resources. This view is only populated when an incident has an associated topology. For more information, see Incident overview.

  • A noise reduction indicator is now available on the Overview page for an incident. The Noise reduction indicator shows how Cloud Pak for AIOps reduces the number of IT events that your operations staff must evaluate. The Noise reduction percentage shows the reduction in the number of events correlated and grouped into alerts that are included in each incident. For more information, see Incident overview.

Managing applications (services) and viewing topologies

  • You can now collect topology data through an integration with Dynatrace. For more information about configuring this data collection, see Creating Dynatrace integrations.

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:

  • The Planning section has been re-arranged, with a new topic Supported platforms combining content that was previously in three separate topics: Supported Openshift versions, Supported Cloud platforms, and Operator installation mode. Information about storage and PVCs has been consolidated into Storage requirements. Information about increasing PVC sizes has been moved into a separate topic called Adjusting PVCs.

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: