23.4 enhancements and patches


Review the BMC Helix Log Analytics 23.4 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

23.4.02

✅️


23.4.01

✅️


23.4.00

✅️

✅️

For a list of recent updates and enhancements across multiple versions, see Release-notes-and-notices.

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

To see the list of deprecated and discontinued features, see Deprecated and discontinued features.



23.4.02


Restrict user access to log data

Implement role-based access control to log data by assigning user groups to collection policies. With this feature, you can make sure that only those users with the correct role can access specific data.

For more information, see Creating-collection-policies.


23.4.01


Uninstall Linux connectors by using the uninstaller script

With the uninstaller script, you can save the time that it takes to uninstall a connector and ensure that all residual connector files are deleted from your system.

For more information, see Installing-and-managing-CentOS-connector and Installing-and-managing-Linux-connector.

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Learn about updates to the Self Monitoring dashboard

The Self Monitoring dashboard in BMC Helix Dashboards contains the following enhancements:

  • View the hot retention duration of a tenant in the Log Volume panel. With this enhancement, you can view all data related to logs in a single dashboard.
  • Open the Event Details page in BMC Helix Operations Management from the Log Events panel. With this enhancement, you can quickly open an event from the dashboard for quicker resolution.

For more information, see Self-monitoring dashboard.

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23.4.00


The following video (1:07) provides a high-level summary of the new features and enhancements in version 23.4 of BMC Helix Log Analytics.

icon-play@2x.pngWatch the YouTube video to learn more about what's new in BMC Helix Log Analytics 23.4.


Upgrade to the OpenSearch platform

BMC Helix Log Analytics supports the OpenSearch platform version 1.3.x. OpenSearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that is based on Apache Lucene.

For more information about OpenSearch 1.3.x, see the OpenSearch documentation.


 

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