Skylight Analytics 22.11 Release Notes

Executive Summary

Welcome to our fall release of Skylight performance analytics! We're excited to bring you a strong set of new functionality including:

1. Traceroute - leverage traceroute information to enhance your troubleshooting workflow
2. Mutli language support - work in the app in the language of your choice with 5 new options
3. Branding - set your own landing screen background picture and logo!
4. More alert delivery options - our services team can now give you more options for alert delivery to the tool of our choice
5. Top level application tour - find your bearings with a short overview as a first time user of the application
6. Usage Stats Logs - track which of your dashboards are most frequently visited

Other Skylight 22.11 content

Don't forget to check out what's new with:

• Skylight interceptor 22.11 Release Notes
• Skylight sensor: capture 22.11 Release Notes
• Skylight sensor agents 22.11 Release Notes

Headline Features

Traceroute

We released a new sensor:agent over the summer that supports generating traceroute information (Agent: trace- Configuration). The 22.11 release now provides:

• Data ingestion into Skylight performance analytics
• Inventory views of trace sessions
• Quickly identify path change events and compare path performance across test runs

As a bonus, you can also automate the association of more detailed sessions data from sources like TWAMP with your trace sessions via APIs. This enables users to see path change events alongside their highly accurate PM data to help more quickly identify causes for changes in performance.

More info on these features:

• Session Traceroute
• Associating Trace and TWAMP sessions

Mutli Language Support

There are now 6 languages to enjoy the application in, and we'll continue adding more as we go!

More info on these features:

• Setting the default language - General Settings
• Option for users to specify their own preference - User Menu

Alert Delivery

We're now working with an integration service called Workato enable our services team to get you your alerts where they need to go. Contact your sales representative for more information on how to leverage this option.

As of 22.11, we will only be supporting session based alerts through this integration service. Soon there will be support for capture and security alerts as well!

Consult What 3rd party services do you use? for more information on Workato.

Top Level Application Tour

When you are planning to visit a new city, you will often want to start with a guided tour to learn about and visit the main attractions. First time Skylight Performance Analytics users will now be offered a top level overview to help them navigate through application.

Usage Stats Logs

Ever wondered which dashboards are the most popular for your users? We've now introduced user stats logs to help you track which dashboards were the most used and visited by user for the last 90 days. Contact your CSMs to get these reports on dashboard and analysis templates usage.

Login stats:

Dashboard stats:

Additional Features

Direction Aliasing

Skylight performance analytics treats the direction enum value of incoming session data by default as:

• P2R (probe to reflector)
• R2P (reflector to probe)
• RT (round trip)
• NON (no direction)

These default labels/mapping don't make sense for every data type coming into the system, so we're now allowing admins to overwrite these display names.

Enhanced Default Password Rules

If utilizing Skylight local authentication, you'll notice that we introduced minimum password rules for your safety.

Notable fixes and minor improvements

• To be provided at GA