22.4 enhancements and patches
Review the BMC Helix Dashboards 22.4 enhancements and patches 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 |
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22.4.02 |
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22.4.01 |
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22.4.00 |
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BMC applies upgrades as described in the BMC Helix Upgrade policy. BMC applies upgrades and patches during Maintenance windows.
22.4.02
Support for enhanced reporting with Grafana 9.2.2
BMC Helix Dashboards supports Grafana 9.2.2, which offers a consolidated view of data from applications across your environment. This version of Grafana also allows you to visualize data in the Canvas visualization plug-in.
Export and import multiple dashboards
As an administrator or an editor, export multiple dashboards in bulk from an existing tenant and import them in into a new tenant.
For more information, see Exporting-and-importing-dashboards.
Collect data by using API endpoints with BMC Helix API data source
Use the out-of-the-box BMC Helix API data source to collect data from any BMC application by specifying the API endpoints.
For more information, see Using-the-BMC-Helix-API-data-source.
Calculate the percentage of field value against the total value
As a tenant administrator, calculate the percentage of a field value against the total value of the column by using Percentage against total value, which is an out-of-the-box advanced function.
For more information, see Creating-dashboards-with-advanced-functions.
Filter data in the Automation Console dashboard by scanned files and vulnerabilities
As an administrator or editor, filter the data in the out-of-the-box Automation Console dashboard by scanned files and the vulnerabilities found in those files.
For more information, see BMC-Helix-Automation-Console-dashboard.
22.4.01
Enhancements to Report Scheduler
- As a dashboard user, schedule reports for the previous week, previous month, previous quarter, and so on.
- As an administrator or an editor, view the date and timestamp of a PDF report generated by the FTP scheduler. This information helps you to store multiple copies of the same report in the FTP location.
- As an administrator, manage the report schedules of other users in your organization. You can view, delete, run, or disable the report schedules created by other users.
For more information, see Scheduling-reports-for-automatic-distribution.
Download the BMC Cross-tab dashboards as tables in Excel format
You can download and modify the BMC Cross-tab dashboards and panels as tables in Microsoft Excel instead of as images.
View the complete panel data in PDF format
As a dashboard user, download the complete data of a dashboard panel in PDF format instead of as an image of the data visible on your screen.
For more information, see Sharing-and-embedding-dashboards.
Download dashboard panels in Excel or CSV format
As a dashboard user, in addition to PDF, download the data of a dashboard panel in Microsoft Excel or CSV format.
For more information, see Sharing-and-embedding-dashboards.
Resize the SQL editor
As an administrator or an editor, resize the SQL editor box while writing a dashboards query. This feature gives you an extended view of the SQL query.
Support for CSV community data source plug-in is dropped
The option to add a CSV community data source plug-in has been dropped from the 22.4.01 release. We recommend that you use the BMC CSV data source plug-in to visualize the CSV data.
For more information, see Configuring-the-BMC-CSV-data-source-plug-in.
22.4
The following video (3.15) provides an overview of the features added to BMC Helix Dashboards 22.4 release:
Support for enhanced reporting with Grafana 9.x
BMC Helix Dashboards supports Grafana 9.x to provide an improved user interface and a consolidated view of data from applications across your environment.
For more information, see Configuring-dashboards-panels-and-queries.
View the version number of BMC Helix Dashboards
As a dashboard user, view the version of BMC Helix Dashboards by using the Help 
> Version option.
Filter dashboards data and schedule reports by fiscal time range
As a dashboard user, filter data in dashboards or schedule dashboard reports by fiscal time range. For example, you can filter data by fiscal quarter, fiscal year, and so on.
For more information, see Configuring-dashboards-panels-and-queries and Scheduling-reports-for-automatic-distribution.
View operations in the BMC Helix Portal Audit dashboard
A tenant administrator can view the operations performed on various objects in BMC Helix Portal.
For more information, see BMC-Helix-Portal-Audit-dashboard.
Collect data by using the API endpoints
Use the BMC JSON API data source to collect data from any internal or external applications by specifying the API endpoints.
For more information, see Configuring-the-BMC-Helix-JSON-API-data-source-plug-in.
Schedule automatic report distribution to FTP and SFTP servers
To share the dashboard reports through a secured channel, an administrator can configure FTP and SFTP servers for automatic distribution of reports.
For more information, see Scheduling-reports-for-automatic-distribution.
Download report copies ondemand
As an administrator, download the report copies ondemand without waiting for the schedule run to generate the report.
For more information, see Scheduling-reports-for-automatic-distribution.
Out-of-the-box dashboards for continuous log monitoring
As an operator, access the following out-of-the-box dashboards to help you track log information:
- Kubernetes: Log collection statistics for Kubernetes log collection integrations
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): Log collection statistics for AWS log collection integrations
- Self monitoring: Log events generated for the configured alert policies
For more information, see BMC-Helix-Log-Analytics.
