Version 8 of the Web Suite, the collector, and the classic tools has been released. The new version includes many new features and enhancements.
Collector:
- Grid view: Ability to search for all columns in the chooser
- Advice: Show a list of table scans (Db2)
- Advice: Show a list of recommended indexes for the entire workload
- Advice: Ability to do Predictive Index Impact Analysis on a recommended index
- Advice: Provide database commands to fix the issues when relevant
- Alert: Errors found in the SQL Server error log (SQL Server)
- Alert: Rules are shown by Rule type
- Real time: New view to show Db error log messages
- Real time: Current transaction log usage by user and application
- Real time: System resources now show for each partition or pureScale member
- Settings: A new settings menu is added to the Left menu Bar to show all database setting views
- Reports: Statements with degraded performance over a 30-day period
- Reports: Database size growth forecasting
- Statistics: filter pureScale statements by member
- Trend Charts: Statement text is shown on top when navigating from a statement
- Workbench: Ability to flag statements identified by the predictive index analysis
- Support for repositories with SSL connections
- Support for monitored databases with SSL connections
Collector:
- Enhanced user and application performance
- New DBI statement concentrator
- Support for TLS connections
- Enhanced support for database types: Simple, HADR, DPF Logical & Physical, pureScale
- Restartable repository upgrades
- Log4j version upgrade
- Several performance improvements