22.2 enhancements and patches

Review the BMC Helix Log Analytics 22.2 enhancements for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users.

Version	SaaS	On premises	Fixed issues	Updates and enhancements
22.2.01		-	Known and corrected issues	updates
22.2.00		-	Known and corrected issues	22.2.00 enhancements

BMC applies upgrades as described in BMC Helix Upgrade policy . BMC applies upgrades and patches during Maintenance windows. .

22.2.01

Collect logs from Windows-based applications

Collect and analyze Windows-based applications logs.

Configure the log expression, date format, and filtering configurations for collection. For more information, see Collecting logs from files.

22.2.00

Collect logs from Amazon Web Services

Collect and analyze all application and services logs from Amazon Web Services (AWS) by using the Amazon CloudWatch service.

Configure AWS regions, groups, and streams for log collection. For more information, see Collecting logs from cloud (AWS).

Policy to create alerts

Create alert policies to add alerts that send notifications about critical log messages. Provide hostname, and other log parameters to enrich the log event. For more information, see Generating events from logs.

Log events generated by using these alert policies are available in BMC Helix Operations Management. In BMC Helix AIOps, log events and other events for a given host in context of a service are correlated to assess service health.

Changes to supported enrichment sources

The following enrichment sources are not available with this release:

• DNS
• GeoIP
• LDAP

If you have used any of these enrichment sources in enrichment policies, the logs are not enriched by using these sources.

The CSV enrichment source is available to enrich the logs.