Rocana released Rocana Ops 1.6 introducing role-based access controls (RBAC) and support for new application performance metrics (StatsD) to enable deeper visibility with greater control across the enterprise.
Total Operational Visibility is more than just capturing all log, metric, wire, and transaction data generated across an IT environment. Effective visibility means providing that data to stakeholders throughout the enterprise including IT teams, security, compliance, and lines of business. That means having good governance controls in place so you can get the right data to the right people at the right time. To address this need, Rocana Ops 1.6 introduces built-in role-based access control (RBAC) complete with optional integration support for Active Directory services. New management capabilities around users, roles, and groups allow administrators to strike the right balance of accessibility versus control over operational data.
Administrators can create default roles for new users, while a full audit trail captures all control changes taking place within the system. Rocana Ops 1.6 features a built-in RBAC query builder that allows administrators to be visually guided through the process of access filtering so they can exercise greater control in a simple, intuitive way.
Rocana Ops 1.6 expands the depth of operational visibility with the integration of StatsD application performance metrics. While StatsD alone can generate useful application performance metrics to help identify and troubleshoot issues, in more complex production environments businesses must be able to understand StatsD metrics in the full context of all other operational data generated in the execution stack – from application, infrastructure, and micro service log events to network data flow events. By ingesting the aggregated application metrics from StatsD in Rocana Ops, technologists see a bigger and clearer picture of operations performance, correlating what is taking place in applications with other operational systems in order to drive greater insights and solve problems faster.
Rocana Ops 1.6 is available now.
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