25.1 enhancements and patches
For a list of recent updates and enhancements across multiple versions, see Release notes and notices.
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25.1.01
Ingest events in all languages
Use the insert REST API endpoint to ingest events in all languages.
For more information, see Metric-operation-management-endpoints-in-the-REST-API.
Increase the limit on the number of times that a policy runs
When you configure timeframes, use the End After field to configure the number of times that an event or blackout policy runs. This limit is increased to 1000000 occurrences. The increase in the limit reduces the number of times that you edit a policy and run it again.
For more information, see the following topics:
25.1.00
The following video (2:09) provides a high-level summary of the new features and enhancements in version 25.1 of .
Associate table views with advanced filters
On the Events page, you can associate table views with advanced filters. After you associate a table view with an advanced filter, the filtered events are automatically displayed according to the table view. You need not apply table views to filtered events every time that you apply an advanced filter.
For more information, see Filtering-events.
Enrich events with Agent tags
Enrich alarm events with PATROL Agent tags. Agent tags are used as additional identifiers for an Agent. For example, with the linux tag, you can easily identify a PATROL Agent that monitors Linux systems from amongst a group of Agents.
With this enhancement, you can use the PATROL Agent tags to easily identify the Agent where an event was raised.
To view a list of the available slots in an alarm event, see Alarm-event-class.
PATROL repository update
The 25.1 release of the repository contains updates to the following monitoring solutions: