This release strengthens Service Observability with scalable Cisco Meraki Cloud-to-Cloud Connection, advanced Kubernetes drilldowns via cross-launch to Container Observability, practical cloud dashboard enhancements, integrated NetFlow monitoring, and an inventory email export workflow. The focus is simple: faster triage, cleaner evidence, and fewer context switches across distributed sites and hybrid environments.
Cisco Meraki Cloud-to-Cloud Connection
How This Helps You
Gives reliable visibility into branch and campus networks without deploying on-prem collectors at every site. Works at scale and during maintenance windows.
Key Capabilities
- High-capacity, lightweight ingestion for Meraki organizations, networks, and devices
- Health, availability, and event telemetry for access points, switches, and gateways
- Collection that tolerates maintenance windows and rate limits
- Filtering by site, device type, and network tags
Benefits
- Confident “is it the network” validation during incidents
- Less operational overhead than per-site polling infrastructure
- Consistent coverage across many remote locations
How to Get Started
- Create a Meraki data source with API key scoped to the required orgs
- Select networks and device classes to ingest
- Add Meraki widgets to branch and service dashboards and set alert thresholds
Advanced Kubernetes Monitoring (Cross-Launch to Container Observability)
How This Helps You
Moves from an alert to pod-level evidence without rebuilding your workflow. When a service issue surfaces in Service Observability, drill into logs and traces in Container Observability for the same timeline.
Key Capabilities
- One-click cross-launch from an alert or dashboard panel to the relevant cluster, namespace, workload, or pod
- Access to pod logs, traces, restarts, and resource signals (CPU, memory, limits, requests)
- RBAC-aware navigation that preserves context and time range
Benefits
- Shorter mean time to resolution when application or platform signals are required
- Fewer false leads by confirming the component that actually changed
- Cleaner post-incident reviews with aligned evidence
How to Get Started
Reach out to Virtana Support to get started
Cloud Dashboard Enhancements
How This Helps You
Improves usability for shared views used during triage and reporting. Faster loads, simpler sharing, and predictable defaults remove friction.
Key Capabilities
- Faster rendering by loading only on-screen widgets
- Dashboard folder sharing for teams and stakeholders
- Email dashboards on a schedule for routine reviews
- Default time range settings per dashboard
- Threshold lines on graph tiles for quick visual checks
Benefits
- Less time waiting for pages to load during an incident
- Consistent views across teams without one-off exports
- Clearer at-a-glance “good vs. bad” with visible thresholds
How to Get Started
- Set default time ranges on your core dashboards
- Add threshold lines to the top service and platform graphs
- Share folders with on-call, SRE, and app owners and configure scheduled emails
NetFlow Monitoring
How This Helps You
Identifies heavy talkers and noisy paths that often sit behind service complaints. Brings traffic insight into the same console you use for service health.
Key Capabilities
- Integration with Infrastructure Observability NetFlow data
- Out-of-the-box dashboards and inventory templates for top network services, conversations, and IP addresses
- Filtering by interface, device, site, application tag, and time window
Benefits
- Faster isolation of bandwidth pressure and chatty dependencies
- Evidence to prioritize network and service changes where they matter
- Less guesswork when performance issues span multiple teams
How to Get Started
Reach out to Virtana Support to enable in your account
Inventory Email Export
How This Helps You
Shares accurate inventory snapshots with stakeholders who do not access the console. Useful for audits, vendor coordination, and change reviews.
Key Capabilities
- Email export of inventory reports with the active scope and filters
- Time stamps and metadata for version control
- Scheduled or ad-hoc distribution
Benefits
- Faster handoffs to operations, security, and vendor teams
- Less manual spreadsheet work for audits and maintenance windows
- Traceable snapshots for post-incident and compliance documentation
How to Get Started
Send emails directly from the inventory page in Service Observability
What to read next
Launch overview blog: How these updates improve performance visibility and ROI across AI workloads and hybrid infrastructure
Global View technical blog: Token Usage Dashboard, GPU Fleet Analysis, Service Observability alerts in Global View, VM-based deployment, and granular meter cards.
Container Observability technical blog: GKE Autopilot support, FSx for NetApp ONTAP monitoring, Azure Confluent monitoring, multi-tenant tracking, and export enhancements
Infrastructure Observability technical blog: Dell PowerProtect and Dell ObjectScale integrations with topology and metrics
If you want to see Service Observability in action with your environment or discuss deployment options, contact your Virtana sales representative or request a demo.
David McNerney
Director of Product Management
