Operations Dashboard

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.7.1

Planned Actions: On Wednesday, December 20, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD), Version 1.7.1. This release includes security patching only.

Impacted Application Development Organizations (ADOs): All QNOD users.

Planned Downtime: This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. ET.

What To Expect: Users will not see new functionality with this release as it includes security patching only.

Known Issues

• Syslog – We are investigating a false positive from Syslog Synthetic Availability KPI.
• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs.
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been disabled to ensure system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.7.0

Planned Actions: On Tuesday, December 12, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD), Version 1.7.0. This release includes security patching and service monitoring adjustments.

Impacted Application Development Organizations (ADOs): All QNOD users.

Planned Downtime: This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. ET.

What To Expect: Users can expect the following service monitoring changes and fixes in addition to routine security patches.

Service Monitoring Changes

• Barracuda – Updated Volume Queue Length and Avg Health Host Count KPIs. Removed Request Count KPI.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs.
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been disabled to ensure system stability.
• QNOD – Work continues to permanently address recent data ingestion instability. Slack alerts have been disabled in the interim.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.6.0

Planned Actions:

On Thursday, October 26, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will release a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD) v1.6.0. This release includes security patching and service monitoring adjustments.

Impacted Application Development Organizations (ADOs):

All QNOD users.

Planned Downtime:

This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. ET.

What To Expect:

Users can expect the following new functionality, service monitoring changes, and fixes in addition to routine security patches.

Service Monitoring Changes

• Confluence – Remove unused Network Request Count Key Performance Indicator (KPI).
• FAS – Rename FAS service to AIMM to reflect recent contract changes.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs.
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been disabled to ensure system stability.
• QNOD – Work continues to permanently address recent data ingestion instability. Slack alerts have been disabled in the interim.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.5.0

Planned Actions:

On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will release a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD) v1.5.0. This release includes security patching and service monitoring adjustments.

Impacted Application Development Organizations (ADOs):

All QNOD users.

Planned Downtime:

This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. ET.

What To Expect:

Users can expect new functionality, service monitoring changes, fixes, and routine security patches.

Service Monitoring Changes

• Jira – Adjust the Network Request KPI to use the new Application Load Balancer.
• MAT – Remove KPIs that are missing data and not indicative of service health.
• All KPIs, except for Synthetic Availability and Synthetic Latency, have been removed.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs.
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been disabled to ensure system stability.
• QNOD – Work continues to address recent data ingestion instability. Slack alerts have been disabled in the interim.

These and past Release Notes can be found on the QNOD Confluence page by clicking the Release Notes 1.0 tab.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.4.0

Affected customers: All QualityNet users

What is happening?

On Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Service Monitoring Changes

• F5 – Remove Client Connections KPIs that are not indicative of service health.

Known Issues:

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been disabled to ensure dashboard stability.
• QNOD – Work continues to permanently address recent data ingestion instability. Slack alerts have been disabled in the interim.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.3.0

Affected Customers: All QualityNet users.

Why is this release happening?

On Wednesday, August 30, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users will not see new functionality with this release as it includes security patching only.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs.

• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.2.0

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Service Monitoring Changes

• F5
  • Add devices that handle non-production traffic.

• Next Gen Firewall

  • Add devices that handle non-production traffic.

• Routing

  • Remove the decommissioned Routing service from QNOD.

Resolved Issues

• HIDS/HARP Automation – Resolved insufficient data for Git(Hub) Status KPI.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs.

• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.1.0

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Please note that QNOD 1 is adopting semantic version numbers instead of the previous system that was based on the project increment. The previous release was 1.23.2.6. This will be the 1.1.0 release.

Service Monitoring Changes

• DELWeb
  • Temporarily monitor only Synthetic Availability and Latency until new DEL infrastructure metrics are available in New Relic
• FireEye vNX
  • Adjust the Appliance Availability KPI to better represent transient monitoring gaps
• QMARS Fax
  • Update Synthetic Availability and Latency to use new synthetic monitor in New Relic
• Next Gen Firewall
  • Remove decommissioned legacy gateways and add new gateways to all KPIs

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.2.6

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, July 6, 2023, at 6 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 8 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements:

• McAfee Web Gateway
• Replaced hardcoded device list in queries with New Relic tag.
• Added Memory Used Percent KPI.
• Removed EC2 Status Check, Application Availability, Network Status, and Process Load KPIs.
• MFT
• Updated KPIs to reflect migration to AWS Fargate.
• QMARS
• Removed KPIs for decommissioned “Next Gen” subsystem.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.2.5

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, June 15, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users will not see new functionality with this release as it includes security patching only.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.2.4

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Machine Learning Enablement

• FAS – Anomaly Detection (Released June 2)
  • This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
  • This capability will aid service owners in investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.
• HQR – Anomaly Detection (Released June 2)
  • This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
  • This capability will aid service owners in investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements

• Ansible
  • Updated KPI and component weights to more accurately represent service health.
• FireEye vNX
  • Updated KPI and component weights to more accurately represent service health.
• GitHub
  • Replaced monitoring of GitHub Enterprise Server with GitHub Enterprise Cloud via GitHub Status API.
• Next Gen Firewall
  • Updated KPI weights to more accurately represent service health.
• TrendMicro
  • Updated KPI and component weights to more accurately represent service health.
  • Remove KPIs:
    • DSM RDS Read Latency
    • DSM RDS Write Latency
    • DSM RDS Connections Count
    • DSM RDS Freeable Memory
    • DSM Request Count
    • DSM Avg Healthy Host Count
    • Relay RDS CPU Used Percent
    • Relay RDS Free Storage Space
    • Relay RDS Freeable Memory
    • Relay Request Count
    • Relay Avg Healthy Host Count
    • Relay RDS Read Latency
    • Relay RDS Write Latency
    • Relay RDS Connections Count

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.2.3

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Machine Learning Enablement

• FAS – Uptime Prediction
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look-ahead of 20 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.
• Predictions are available for the following KPIs:
• Synthetic Latency
• Disk Free Percent
• Memory Used Percent.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements:

• F5
• Updated thresholds and weights to more accurately represent service health.
• Added KPIs
• SWAP Memory Utilization
• Other Memory Utilization
• Remove KPIs:
• Synthetic Availability
• Synthetic Latency
• Total Client Bytes Received
• Total Client Bytes Sent
• Inbound Error (%)
• Outbound Error (%)

• GitHub
• Removed KPIs:
• Synthetic First Contentful Paint
• Synthetic First Paint
• Synthetic First On Page Load

 Resolved Issues

• FileCloud -- Process Count is no longer reporting insufficient data.
• Machine Learning Models – Ansible anomaly detection (AD) model has been retrained and alerts enabled.

Known Issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• QNOD – The time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.2.2

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements

• FileCloud
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated weights to more accurately represent service health.
• FireEye vNX
• Removed decommissioned appliances.
• EQRS Scoring and Feedback
• Updated KPI weights to more accurately represent service health.
• MFT
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated weights to more accurately represent service health.
• PRS
• Updated KPI weights to more accurately represent service health.
• QNP
• Updated KPI weights to more accurately represent service health.
• Zscaler
• Updated KPIs to capture new Zscaler infrastructure after PACE migration.

Resolved Issues

• EQRS SF –User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) have been restored for NGMC and service health alerts have been enabled for EQRS SF.

Known Issues

• FileCloud -- Process Count is reporting insufficient data. The service owner is working with APM to restore this metric in New Relic.
• Machine Learning Models – Ansible anomaly detection (AD) alerts have been disabled while the model is retrained.
• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• QNOD – Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.2.1

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements:

• Jenkins
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent service health.
• WAN Connectivity
• Updated New Relic queries to reflect infrastructure changes.

Resolved issues:

• Machine Learning Models – Shifting trends in service metric data may adversely affect the performance of both Anomaly Detection (AD) and Uptime Prediction (UP) models. Retraining is complete for the listed models and AD alerts have been re-enabled where applicable.
• Ansible UP
• HARP AD
• Jira AD & UP
• Syslog UP

 Known issues:

• Machine Learning Models – Ansible anomaly detection (AD) alerts have been disabled while the model is retrained.
• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• QNOD – Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.1.6

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New features

• Machine Learning Enablement – Uptime Prediction
• QTSO
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 10 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.
• Predictions are available for the following KPIs: RDS Freeable Disk, RDS Freeable Memory.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements

• FAS
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent service health.
• New Relic
• Updated KPI and component weights to more accurately represent service health
• McAfee Web Gateway
• Added additional Synthetic Monitor and removed non-impacting KPIs to more accurately represent service health.
• EQRS Portal
• Added additional KPIs and removed non-impacting KPIs to more accurately represent service health.
• QTSO
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent service health.
• iQIES & QIES
• Moved monitoring of MDS application infrastructure from QIES to iQIES in preparation for migration cutover on April 17.

Resolved issues

• Machine Learning Models – Shifting trends in service metric data may adversely affect the performance of both Anomaly Detection (AD) and Uptime Prediction (UP) models. Retraining is complete for the listed models and AD alerts have been re-enabled where applicable.
• ClamAV AD
• Confluence AD
• QTSO AD
• ServiceNow AD

Known issues

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• QNOD – Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.1.5

Affected customers: All QualityNet users.

On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New features

• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection
• QTSO
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners in investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements

• HQR
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated component and KPI weights to represent their contribution to service health more accurately.
• QDIVS DARRT
• Updated component weights to represent service health more accurately.
• DEL
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated KPI weights to represent their contribution to service health more accurately.
• F5
• Added KPIs that were considered critical to overall service health.
• Presentation Zone
• Decommissioned this service as it was a duplicate of the F5 service.

Resolved issues

• iQIES – Improved New Relic queries to avoid occasional timeouts when fetching metrics.
• Machine Learning Models – Shifting trends in service metric data may adversely affect the performance of both Anomaly Detection (AD) and Uptime Prediction (UP) models. Retraining is complete for the listed models and AD alerts have been re-enabled where applicable.
• Confluence AD
• Jira Anomaly D
• ServiceNow AD
• Syslog AD.

Known issues

• ClamAV Anomaly Detection (AD) Machine Learning Model – Shifting trends in service metric data may adversely affect the performance of both Anomaly Detection (AD) and Uptime Prediction (UP) models. AD alerts have been disabled while this model is monitored and retrained.
• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• QNOD – Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.1.4

Affected customers: All QualityNet users

On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New features:

• New Service Onboarding
• VPN ASA
• Onboarded initial KPIs: CPU Used Percent and Memory Used Percent.

• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection (Released March 13)
• New Relic
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners in investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.
• SAS Viya
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners in investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.

• Machine Learning Enablement – Uptime Prediction (Released March 13)
• New Relic
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 10 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.
• Predictions are available for the following KPIs: Queue Depth.

Service Adjustments and Baseline Reconciliation Improvements:

• Barracuda
• Updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent their contribution to overall service health.
• Added ELB and Email Gateways to those already being monitored.
• Added failing state thresholds to In and Out Queue KPIs.
• Confluence
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent overall service health.
• iQIES
• Removed non-impacting KPI's to more accurately represent overall service health.
• QMARS Fax
• Removed sunsetting Reverse Proxy subsystem.
• Nexus
• Removed sunsetting IQ Auditor and IQ Firewall subsystems.
• Zscaler
• Removed non-impacting KPIs and updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent overall service health.

Resolved issues:

• Adjusted New Relic query intervals to avoid gaps in EC2 Status Check data for some Active Directory hosts.
• Resolved an issue where a missing entity in HARP data interfered with Anomaly Detection for that service.
• Resolved minor issues with panel labels and rendering on the QIES drill-down dashboard.

 Known issues:

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.1.3

Affected customers: All QualityNet users

On Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New features:

• Machine Learning Enablement – Uptime Prediction

• HARP
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 30 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues. Where possible, predictions are made at the entity level (e.g. per host) to improve accuracy and diagnostic utility.
• Predictions are available for the following KPIs: Hera APM Throughput, Login APM Throughput, SO Tool APM Throughput, Account Recovery CPU Used Percent, Account Recovery Memory Used Bytes, ADO API Memory Used Bytes, HERMES CPU Used Percent, HERMES Memory Used Bytes, HOMER CPU Used Percent, HOMER Memory Used Bytes, Registration CPU Used Percent, Registration Memory Used Bytes, SO Tool Memory Used Bytes, Utility Memory Used Bytes.
• New Relic
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 10 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.
• Predictions are available for the following KPIs: New Relic Status.

 Baseline Reconciliation Improvements:

• Ansible Tower

• Added an additional synthetic monitor, "AT-PROD-URL."

• ClamAV

• Updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent their contribution to overall service health.
• Improved KPI legend specificity.

• HARP

• Improved resiliency of synthetics queries by using tags instead of synthetic names.
• Updated KPI weights to more accurately represent their contribution to overall service health.

• HIDS HARP Automation

• Updated component and KPI weights to more accurately represent their contribution to overall service health.

• Office365

• Renamed "API Status" to "O365 Status API."

• QIES

• Removed MDS APM Error Rate KPI as it does not impact overall service health.

 Known issues:

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.23.1.2

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New features:

• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection

• HARP
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners in investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.

Resolved issues:

• Updated New Relic account information for the DELWeb service.

• Updated PRS service Compute KPIs to reflect infrastructure migration to AWS Fargate.

Known issues:

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.8

Affected customers: All QualityNet users

On Monday, January 9, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New features:

• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection

• Ansible Tower
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners in investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.

Resolved issues:

• Resolved an issue where selecting a specific KPI for viewing or editing opened the incorrect KPI

 Known issues:

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• Time picker for service drill-down dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.7

Affected customers: All QualityNet users

On Wednesday, December 21, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New features:

• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection

• Jira
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners with investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.

• Machine Learning Enablement – Uptime Prediction

• Jira
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 5 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.
• Predictions enabled for the following KPIs: APM Heap Used Percent, APM Throughput, Disk Free Percent, EFS Data Read IO, EFS Percent IO, Memory Used Percent, RDS CPU Used Percent, RDS Connections Count, RDS Freeable Memory, RDS Free Storage Space, RDS Read Latency, RDS Write Latency, Request Count, Synthetic Availability, Synthetic First Byte, Synthetic First Contentful Paint, Synthetic First Paint, Synthetic Latency, Synthetic On Page Load.

Resolved issues:

• Airflow
• Restored Process Count KPI
• Transitioned CPU and Memory Used Percent KPIs from EC2 to ECS source
• Removed EC2 Status Check and Disk Free Percent KPIs

Known issues:

• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.6

Affected Customers: All QualityNet users

On Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of the QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Features:

• Machine Learning Enablement - Uptime Prediction
  • ClamAV
    • Added Uptime Predictions to Disk Free Percent and Memory Used Percent KPIs
    • This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 5 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level for the ClamAV service, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.

Issues Resolved:

• Barracuda
  • Aligned QNOD queries with New Relic (one hour) polling interval to mitigate intermittent insufficient data periods for various KPIs
• QDIVS (FIVS)
  • Restored Network KPIs with insufficient data after QDIVS network infrastructure changes.

Known Issue(s):

• Airflow– No data is available for some KPIs due to an issue with the New Relic data source
• Barracuda – Insufficient data overnight for Network KPIs
• CCSQ QuickSight – Occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF – No data is available for User Experience KPIs (“canaries”) while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints. Service health alerts have been disabled for EQRS SF.
• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.5

Affected Customers: QNOD CMS Executive Users

On Wednesday, November 28, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

Issues Resolved:

• Barracuda
• Updated QNOD data ingestion after device migration
• Add additional gateways to QNOD
• Office365 
• Updated QNOD data ingestion after device migration
• Removed Office365 Process Count KPI
• IQIES
• Updated Web Transaction Time, SQS Oldest Message, and Visible Message
• Corrected Redis Infrastructure unit type from “milliseconds” to “bytes”
• Added ‘displayName’ facet to show all of Redis infrastructure
• Updated the Redshift CPU legend to show hostnames

Known Issue(s):

• Airflow - no data is available for some KPIs due to a data source issue unrelated to QNOD
• Barracuda - intermittent insufficient data periods for Network KPIs
• CCSQ QuickSight - occasional insufficient data false positives for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS SF - no data is available for User Experience KPIs ("canaries") while the Portal team troubleshoots API endpoints
• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.4

Affected Customers: QNOD CMS Executive Users

On Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Feature(s):

• Onboarding for Service(s):
• QPP
• Auth API
• Response Time
• Error Percentage
• ECS CPU Utilization
• ECS Memory Utilization
• ECS Task Running Count
• RDS CPU Utilization
• RDS Memory Utilization
• Synthetic Latency
• Synthetic Result
• Content Management
• 4XX/5XX Error Count
• Request Count
• ECS CPU Utilization
• ECS Memory Utilization
• HQR 
• Analytics Cloud Reporting - full subsystem decomposition
• Application
• Compute
• Network
• User Experience

Issues Resolved:

• PRS - Resolved insufficient data reported for some KPIs
• SAS Viya - Removed KPIs that are no longer relevant to service health
• Web Transactions Time
• APM Error Rate
• APM Throughput
• PG Database Connections
• EQRS Portal - Resolved insufficient data reported for User Experience KPIs
• EQRS Scoring and Feedback - Resolved degraded service health after New Relic account changes
• QSEP - Resolved insufficient data reported for some KPIs
• HQR - Removed decommissioned services from some KPIs
• Corrected typographical errors in some KPI names
• Switched FireEye_vnx Network Response time metrics provider from Manage Engine to New Relic
• Removed Availability Network component
• Separated Response Time metric into two components

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.3

On Wednesday, October 27, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Feature(s):

• Onboarding for Service(s):
• QPP
• Clinicians Insights API
• Response Time
• Error Percentage
• ECS CPU Utilization
• ECS Memory Utilization
• ECS Task Running Count
• RDS CPU Utilization
• RDS Read Latency
• Synthetic Latency
• Synthetic Result
• Scoring API
• Response Time
• Error Percentage
• ECS CPU Utilization
• ECS Memory Utilization
• ECS Task Running Count
• RDS CPU Utilization
• RDS Read Latency
• Synthetic Latency
• Synthetic Result
• Front End
• 4XX/5XX Error Count
• Healthy Host Count
• Request Count
• ECS CPU Utilization
• ECS Memory Utilization
• ECS Task Running Count
• Error Percentage
• Response Time
• Web Errors
• Web Throughput
• Web Transaction Time
• Content Management
• RDS – CPU Utilization
• RDS – Free Storage Space
• MedTrak
• FSx Metrics
• Removed Subsystems

• Machine Learning Enablement – Uptime Prediction for the following service(s):
• Barracuda
• Corrected the QNOD visualization to reflect 5-minute predictions. This was changed in release 6.1, when the Barracuda model had 3 additional KPIs added and the prediction time was changed from 30m to 5m to improve KPI predictive accuracy.

Known Issue(s):

Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.2

On Wednesday, October 12, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Feature(s):

• Onboarding for Service(s):
  • QPP
    • Subsystems – Onboarded these subsystem components: Eligibility, Submissions API, Targeted Review & Self Nomination.
    • User Experience – Onboarded KPIs: Synthetic Availability, Synthetic Latency.
    • Compute – Onboarded KPIs:
    • ECS – CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, Task running count.
    • RDS – BinLogDiskUsage, CPUUtilization, DatabaseConnections, DiskQueueDepth, FreeStorageSpace, ReadIOPS, ReadLatency, ReadThroughput, SwapUsage, WriteIOPS, WriteLatency,
    • Applications – Onboarded KPIs: Errors, Web Transaction Time, Web Throughput, HealthCheckStatus.
    • Network – Onboarded KPIs: Healthy Host Count, Request Count, HTTPCode_Target_4XX_Count, HTTPCode_Target_5XX_Count.
  • FAS
    • Network – Onboarded KPIs: Request Count, Active Connection Count, Processed Bytes, Response Time.

• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection for the following service(s):
  • ClamAV
    • This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
    • This capability will aid service owners with investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.

• Machine Learning Enablement – Uptime Prediction for the following service(s):
  • ServiceNow
    • Adding CPU Used Percent and Memory Used Percent.
    • This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 30 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level for the Confluence service, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v6.1

On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Feature(s):

• Onboarding for Service(s):
• EQRS Portal
• Application – Onboarded KPIs: Redshift Database Connections, Redshift Read/Write Latency
• Compute – Onboarded KPIs: Redshift; Health Status, CPU Used Percent, Disk Used Percent, Read/Write Throughput.
• Network – ALB Request Count & Active Connections, API Gateway 5xx Errors.
• QNP
• Compute – Switched EC2 KPI’s with Fargate.
• Mailman
• Compute – Switched EC2 KPI’s with Fargate.
• QPP
• Application – Add Synthetic Maker synthetics. Fail Percent.
• FAS
• Compute – Onboarded KPIs: CPU, Memory, Disk for the service’s Infrastructure.
• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection for the following service(s):
• ServiceNow and Splunk:
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners with investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.
• Machine Learning Enablement – Uptime Prediction additional KPIs for the following service(s): 
• Barracuda
• Adding CPU Used Percent, Volume Queue Length & Request Count to the existing KPIs of In Queue Count and Out Queue Count
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 30 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level for the Confluence service, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v5.5

On Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Feature(s):

• Monthly Service Availability Dashboard
• A new dashboard that is specific to service availability for all services and provides a single view of service availability for the past 30 days.  In addition, the view will include services that reported outages in the past 30 days.
• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection for the following service(s):
• Jenkins:
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners with investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.
• Machine Learning Enablement – 30 Minute Uptime Prediction for the following service(s):
• Ansible Tower:
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 30 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level for the Confluence service, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v5.4

On Friday, August 26, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Feature(s):

• Onboarding for Service(s):
• EQRS Scoring and Feedback
• Synthetics – Determines the availability of the QMARS application; Duration and Success Percent are the two KPIs ingesting into QNOD.
• Application – Onboarded KPIs: Web Transaction Time, Read/Write Latency, Transaction Throughput.
• Compute – Onboarded KPIs: CPU, Memory, Disk, Read/Write IOPS for the service’s Infrastructure.
• MAT
• Application – Onboarded KPIs: Application Web Transaction Time, Error Rate, and Transaction Throughput; RDS Connections and Read/Write Latency.
• Compute – Onboarded KPIs: EC2 CPU, Memory, and Disk; RDS CPU, Memory, Disk, and Read/Write IOPS; ECS CPU and Memory.
• Network – Onboarded KPIs: ALB Requests and Active Connections.
• QMARS
• Synthetics – Add Legacy synthetics. Determines the availability of the QMARS application; Duration and Success Percent are the two KPIs ingesting into QNOD.
• Network – Onboarded KPIs: ALB Active Connections, ALB Processed Bytes, and ALB Request Count.
• QSEP
• Application – Onboarded KPIs: Web Transaction Time, Read/Write Latency, Transaction Throughput, Processes Count, and Application Error Rate.
• Compute – Onboarded KPIs: CPU, Memory, Disk, Read/Write IOPS for the service’s Infrastructure.
• Network – ALB Request Count, ALB Avg. Healthy Host Count, ALB Response Time, Nginx Requests Per Second, Nginx Active Connections, Nginx Connections Waiting.
• Machine Learning Enablement – 30 Minute Uptime Prediction for the following service(s):
• Jenkins and Splunk:
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 30 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level for the Confluence service, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.

Performance Improvements:

• Removed the additional components involved in data transfer between data collection and data storage layers. Also removed the additional components between data processing and data storage layers. This has resulted in significant improvements in performance and will enable quicker restoration compared to the current process. This will also reduce the downtime during deployments to 1–2 minutes compared to current 10–15 minutes.
• Multiple orgs. within the Influxdb data are merged into one for better visibility and testing within the data storage layer.

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v5.3

On Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET, we will be releasing a new version of our QualityNet Operations Dashboard (QNOD). This release will cause QNOD to be unavailable until 10 p.m. ET.

Why is this release happening?

New versions of QNOD are released each sprint to ensure that QNOD users have continued access to the latest product features and enhancements, as well as fixes to any issues that have been resolved.

What are some of the enhancements included in the upgrade?

Users can expect the following new functionality with this release as well as fixes and/or security patching.

New Feature(s):

• Onboarding for Service(s):
• QMARS
• Synthetics – Determines the availability of the QMARS application; Duration and Success Percent are the two KPIs ingesting into QNOD.
• Application – Onboarded KPIs: Web Transaction Time, Read/Write Latency, Transaction Throughput.
• Compute – Onboarded KPIs: CPU, Memory, Disk, Read/Write IOPS, for the service’s Infrastructure.
• QIES
• Split out KPIs into distinct applications for CASPER, MDS, and PBJ.
• User Experience – Expand synthetic tests to include following KPIs: 'First Byte', 'First Paint', 'First Contentful Paint', and 'Page Load'.
• Application – Update KPIs for APM Response Time, APM Throughput, APM Error Rate.
• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection for the following service(s):
• Confluence and Syslog:
• This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service.
• This capability will aid service owners with investigating root causes as well as fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation.
• QNOD Notifications:
• Confluence and Syslog:
• Using the Slack channel #alerts-qnod-prod, the Anomaly Detection process from the Machine Learning capability above will send alerts when an anomalous event is detected in these services. An alert will also be sent when the condition has cleared for the service.
• This capability will aid service owners with identifying and quickly fixing issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential service issue or degradation.
• Service Availability:
• Service Availability percentage for the past 24 hours is now displayed in service drilldown dashboards.
• The Service Availability percentage refers to the percentage of time service stayed in a “Non-Critical” state out of the total time reported to New Relic.

Issue(s) Resolved:

• QIES
• User Experience – corrected a failing synthetic test.

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v5.2

New Feature(s):

• Synthetics for the following service(s):
• MedTrak

• Full Decomposition for the following service(s):
• QCOR
• QDIVS
• MedTrak

• Machine Learning Enablement – 30-Minute Uptime Prediction Model for the following service(s):
• Confluence – This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides the service owner with a look ahead of 30 minutes into the future for any potential issues at the KPI level for the Confluence service, with an 86% confidence level in this prediction. This gives service owners an opportunity to investigate their service and look for potential issues.

• Machine Learning Enablement – Anomaly Detection for the following service(s):
  • Barracuda – This AI/ML capability with deep learning models provides service owners with a 24-hour historical view of anomalies that may have occurred with their service. This capability will aid service owners with investigating the root cause and fixing any issues with their service that would otherwise lead to a potential future service issue or degradation. 

Issue(s) Resolved:

• None this release

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v5.1.2

New Feature(s):

• Machine Learning Enablement – 30 Minute Uptime Prediction Model for the following service(s):
• Barracuda
• Syslog

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v5.1.1

Roll Back New Feature(s):

• Roll Back Machine Learning Enablement – 30 Minute Uptime Prediction Model for the following service(s):
• Barracuda
• Syslog

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v5.1

New Feature(s):

• Full Decomposition for the following service(s):
• QIES
• QTSO

• Machine Learning Enablement – 30 Minute Uptime Prediction Model for the following service(s):
• Barracuda
• Syslog

Issue(s) Resolved:

• The following issues with service drilldown dashboards are fixed:
  • AD – Process Count KPI panels updated to show process names along with host names.
  • Certificate Authority – Process Count KPI panels updated to show process names along with host names.
  • ClamAV – Process Count KPI panels updated to show process names along with host names.
  • PRS – Updated legend name for the KPI panels.
  • Hive – Average Healthy Host Count and Process Count KPI panels updated with correct legend names.
• Drilldown dashboards for Office365, DELWeb, and McAfee WG services fixed to show host names in KPI panel labels.

Known Issue(s):

• Time picker for service drilldown dashboards has been temporarily disabled to address possible issues with system stability.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v4.6

New Feature(s):

• Synthetic Monitoring for the following service(s):
  • MedTrax
• Full Decomposition for the following service(s):
  • EQRS Portal Service
  • HARP/HIDS Automation (Additional KPIs)
• WAN - New devices added into New Relic and reporting the same in QNOD

Issue(s) Resolved:

• Resolved the issue with the Alerter process to be able to send notifications for service state changes
• Fixed the ‘Disk Free Percent’ KPI reported via New Relic for multiple services
• Updated F5 URLs synthetic test scripts to accommodate the F5 network device’s move to new hardware

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v4.5

New Feature(s)

• Synthetic Monitoring for the following service(s):
• EQRS Scoring and Feedback
• QIES
• QTSO
• Full Decomposition for the following service(s):
• iQIES/PASCID
• Additional reports have been added to the Grafana Metrics API:
• The Recovery Rate report calculate the ratio of failed deployments to the total number of deployments, shown on a quarterly bases.
• The Mean Time to Recover report shows, on a quarterly basis, shows the average amount of time it takes for application to recover from a failed deployment

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v4.4

New Feature(s)

• Synthetic Monitoring for the following services
• FAS
• QCOR
• HARP/HIDS Automation
• MFT
• AWS RSS messages
• US-East-1 and global regions are continuously retrieved from AWS and available at #aws-rss-alerts Slack channel
• New dashboards available
• 24-hour Service Issues Summary
• Service Issues Reports
• New component added for New Relic service drilldown to capture New Relic minion (synthetic test monitors) health

Bug Fixes:

• FireEye ETP
  • Updated Synthetic Availability to where it no longer reports a constant degraded state.
• FireEye vNX
  • Updated Interface KPIs to where they are no longer reporting a constant degraded state
• McAfee GW
  • Updated Interface KPIs to where they are no longer reporting a constant degraded state
• Certificate Authority
  • Both Disks are now reporting correctly, and the overall service health is more accurate
• Nexus
  • Fixed thresholds for Disk, previously reporting “Insufficient Data” when there was indeed data
• Slack
  • Broken incident links to https://status.slack.com have been fixed

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v4.3

New Feature(s)

• Synthetic Monitoring for the following services:
• QDIVS
• Bonnie/MAT
• QSEP/ITSP
• CCSQ QuickSight
• Full Decomposition for the following services:
• DEL
• Anomaly detection displayed for the following services:
• Confluence
• Improved reporting
• AWS evaluation now includes reports from the AWS global and us-east-1 public health API
• Landing page Enhancements
• Service panels now include a hover function to display current service health %.
• New service status icon to identify services which have KPI issues yet do not fully affect a service’s state.
• Metric Sources Dashboard
• A dashboard displaying a summary of metric sources is now available (metric summaries dashboard) and is available as a link from the landing page.
• A dashboard drilling into each metric source, detailing degraded, failed, and missing values is available from the metric summaries dashboard.

Bug Fixes:

• Services where KPI’s were appearing as blank on the service decomposition diagram on a service drilldown now appear as No Data (grey color)
• Missing KPI’s for services now contribute to the overall state of a service.
• Most services were not being evaluated in their ‘minutes_threshold’ value via their service decomposition definitions. This caused a single point to affect the overall state of a service. Service KPI’s are now being evaluated correctly.  

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v4.2

New Feature(s)

• Full Decomposition for the following services:
• Ambari Infrastructure
• TestRail
• SAS Viya
• Zeppelin

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v4.1

New Feature(s)

• Full Decomposition for the following services:
• Airflow
• Hive
• Ranger

Infrastructure Upgrade

• Grafana upgraded to v8.4.4 from v8.1.8

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v3.5

New Services

• EQRS Portal
• iQIES

 New Features/Bug Fixes

• Thresholds for FileCloud and Routing services are adjusted to display the status of the application accurately.
• Fixed the Request API Count KPI to display data and services having Request Count start reporting data. 

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v3.4

Issues Resolved

• DNS, Office365, AD, Certificate Authority - resolved issue where KPIs were not reporting in QNOD after a New Relic upgrade 

New Features

• HQR - added Application and Network metrics, expanded Compute metrics, and added two more subsystems
• HARP - moved from Collaboration panel to Identity & Access panel
• Modified thresholds from 0 minutes to 3 minutes to reduce noise

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v3.3

New Services

• CDR (Ambari, HIVE, and Ranger subsystems)
• HQR
• DELWeb

New Features

• HARP Service drilldown updated to include the subsystems along with HOMER subsystem.
• Updated service drilldown dashboards to include Jira issues panel.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v3.2

New Services

• Airflow
• SAS Viya
• Zeppelin

New Features

• FireEye vNX
  • Added Device Availability and Response Time KPIs
• Metrics API
  • Added new report APIs to communicate deployment recovery metrics and new roles to API keys to enhance security

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v3.1.1

Category Changes in Current Service Status Overview Dashboard:

• Zscaler has moved from Security to Network
• Syslog has moved from Security to Monitoring

Issues Resolved

• Provided a fix to the NewRelic service to reflect the current health status more accurately. 
• Implemented update to the F5 service synthetic tests to reflect the current service health status in the dashboard.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v3.1

New Features:

• New Services
  • Network
    • AWS
    • QMARS Fax (Biscom)
    • Network Routing
    • Presentation Zone
    • WAN Connectivity
  • Collaboration
    • TestRail

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.7.1

New Features:

• DevSecOps Metrics API MVP
• Usable functionality will be a dashboard presenting the number of deployments per day, per application.
• Please reach out to Tim Regulski for an API Key and instructions on configuration

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.7.0

New Features:

• Entity Discovery Automation
• We can catalog all devices on our data sources.
• Provides functionality for us to be much faster in understanding what devices exist and what data gaps we may have for a particular service.
• DAS QNOD Integration Prep
• Worked with the HARP team to create a new DAS entitlement with HARP to provide the teams access to QNOD.
• SaaS Issue Reporting
• Slack service drill down can display RSS feeds for the latest active and resolved incidents. 

New Services:

• SNOW
• F5
• FirePower IPS
• Office 365/Exchange
• QNET
• Mailman
• PRS
• FireEye VNX

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.6.0

New Features:

• Implemented Grafana upgrade from 8.1.2 to 8.1.8 to address CVE-2021-43798.
• QNOD alert notifications per service can be configured to send to multiple Email distros and Slack channels.  Alerts will be sent on service state changes.

 New Services:

• McAfee Web Gateway
• Trend Micro DS

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.5.0

Architecture Improvements: 

• Data collection processes have been decoupled from each other on a per-service basis. This will improve performance and make it less likely for a failure in on service's data pull to affect others.

New Features:

• Enable QNOD notifications to send alerts to Email distribution or Slack channel
• Service Status will now be derived from the weighted system health score. This will improve the accuracy of the system status and make it less subject to a single KPI status

New Services:

• CA Certificates
• Survey Monkey
• FireEye ETP

Issues Resolved:

KPIs that are designated to alarm only after a specified period of time will now alarm only after the specified period as intended

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.4.0

New Features: 

• Added Service Health Panel to all dashboards to display the weighted score of the service over time
• Added Current Issues Dashboard so that KPI issues are seen on a single dashboard

New Service: 

• Active Directory

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.3.1

Issues Resolved:

• Updated the view for Current Service Status Overview Dashboard
• Fixed the unittype in the FileCloud and MFT service drilldown panels
• Nexus service divided into subsystems for more visibility into the service

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.3

New Features

• Migrated to serverless metric ingestion, increasing reliability and efficiency
• Improved the layout of the current status dashboard to more succinctly show service groups
• Fixed the display of certain metrics for Jira and Confluence
• Implemented Notifications sent to Slack for service status change

New Services:

• DNS
• Slack

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.2

New Features

• Added weighted system health score to represent system health in a more dynamic way
• Implemented automatic creation of dashboard drill-downs to ensure consistency and improve velocity
• Produced POC/MVP of automatic discovery and metric ingestion engine
• Redesigned the current status overview dashboard
• Incorporated Unit Tests for Lambda functions

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v2.0

Issues Resolved

• KPIs, where no data is okay, will no longer affect the component or system status
• Tuning of the logging frequency for Flux tasks

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.5

New Services:

• MFT
• Tenable Nessus

New Features:

• Enhanced the layout of the drilldown and service dependency tree diagram to improve the viability of the KPIs.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.4.1

New Features:

• Improved Performance -- serverless computing (AWS Lambda) was deployed to increase the efficiency and timing of queries, which lowers the load up to 90% on database tier
• No Data -- the dashboard now displays 'No Data' if there is insufficient data to represent the service's status and KPI
• UI Improvements -- various small improvements to the UI, color uniformity, panel type, etc

Bug Fixes:

• "No Query Returned Results" error has been fix on the Executive Dashboard

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.4

New Service(s):

The following service(s) will be integrated with the new release:

• Barracuda (Mailman)
• HARP

New Features:

• FileCloud, Nexus, and Splunk are fully decomposed with metrics provided in their drilldowns
• Syslog synthetic test panels added to drilldowns
• Confluence and Jira data ingest processing and visualization for Network and Database metrics added in drilldowns

Bug Fixes:

• Added info to panels in drilldown dashboard

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.3.1

Bug Fixes:

• Infrastructure upgraded to address the intermittent "query not returning results" error on the Dashboard panels
• Updated AMI to address security compliance findings

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.3

New Service(s):

The following service(s) will be integrated with the new release:

• GitHub
• NewRelic

New Feature(s):

Service Drill Downs

• Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub and New Relic drill-downs provide fully decomposed metrics.

 Bug Fixes:

The following issues will be resolved with the new release:

• QNet Dashboard Logo updated with a new transparent icon.
• Logic to determine component status updated to reflect correct status of component.
• Service Dependency Diagram panel updated for better visibility.
• Updated the Executive Dashboard view to render the service status correctly.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.2

New Service(s):

• ZScaler

What is new:

Service Drill Downs

• Confluence, JIRA, and ZScaler drill-downs provide fully decomposed metrics.

• Added scan latency panel to ClamAV User Experience component.

• Link to Confluence page with Jira issues fixed to ensure that it opens in a new tab instead of same tab.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.1.1

Bug Fixes:

• Increased the number of containers to 2 for Grafana to fix the "503 service temporarily unavailable"
• Fixed the link to Jira issues page on confluence from dashboard.
• Increased the query timeout and query concurrency in Influxdb to resolve the "query length limit exceeded" error.
• Increased the CPU and memory allocation for Grafana, Influxdb and Telegraf.

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.1

What is New:

The following systems have their own drilldown dashboard:

• Confluence
• JIRA
• Service Now
• FileCloud
• Ansible
• Nexus
• Jenkins
• Splunk
• ClamAV
• Syslog

What is included in this release:

• Upgraded to Grafana v8.0.3
• 508 Accessibility
  • Added 'alt' attributes to images
  • Removed heading <h1,2,3,4> attributes
  • Fixed some contrast issues
• Removed 3 semi-hidden panels, reduced code by 180 lines

QualityNet Operations Dashboard v1.0

The following Applications are currently being monitored for availability (up/down):

• Confluence
• JIRA
• Service Now
• FileCloud
• Ansible
• Nexus
• Jenkins
• Splunk

What is included in this release:

• Removed the ability for users to log into the dashboard with local accounts, users are forced to have a HARP account
• Okta/HARP integration for authentication
• 4 hour authentication timeout after no activity
• Automated vulnerability scanning utilizing Netsparker and Nessus
• Implemented Sonar Scanner to validate code in GitHub for vulnerabilities and bugs
• Fixed Overlay UI issues
• Fixed Panel Lengths so they all match and are even
• Updated the queries to fix the service status results in Grafana
• Grafana synthetic testing to validate dashboard availability
• Container and Host based alerts to Slack ie CPU Utilization %, Memory Usage %, Disk Space, Host not responding, and Database storage utilization alert

Known Issues:

• Internet Explorer 11 not currently supported.  For more information https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/requirements/#supported-web-browsers
• Application logs are not ingesting into Splunk
• ADO-HIDS-Ventech Solutions is the only available organization in HARP