Catch Up on VMware Aria Operations for Logs: A Recap from VMware Explore Barcelona and Tokyo

Thanks to our customer community, partners, sales, event marketing, and product teams for the latest VMware Explore events. There was a lot of momentum with the Tokyo Explore event, completed last week, November 14-15, 2023, and the Barcelona Explore event on November 6-9, 2023. There were also VMware Explore events in Singapore and Sao Paulo.

The VMware Explore user group events are an excellent experience for our VMware Aria Operations for Logs engineering and product teams to receive feedback from our customers and partners so we can improve our vision for our products and solutions based on real customer experiences.

Figure 1. The VMware product and sales teams with customers after a session.

Highlights: VMware Aria Operations for Logs

At VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona and Tokyo, VMware Aria Operations for Logs introduced new capabilities for logging for VMware Cloud Foundation and the 3rd party ecosystem across on-premises and SaaS to help manage log data at scale with deep operational visibility, intelligent analytics for troubleshooting, and auditing across multi-cloud environments.

Multi-Cloud

•New and updated content packs for the VMware ecosystem across On-premises and SaaS

•Federated Queries

•Native integration with VMware Aria Operations

•Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) log enhancements

Compliance

•Scheduled Reports

•Usage Reports

Platform & Usability

•User experience enhancements (option to tune user session timeout and set time zone) for easier troubleshooting

•Ingestion Limit Notifications

•Public APIs (SaaS)

•Content Packs (Apache Web Service, VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator)

•Support for AVI load balancer for platform use

Figure 2. Federated Querying across on-premises platform clusters and a SaaS instance. Allows for easier troubleshooting and knowledge to know where to deep-dive. Allows GDPR compliance where data is kept in the location where it is collected.

Figure 3. VMware Explore session presented by Amit Kumar (VMware).

Watch the Session Recordings: VMware Aria Operations for Logs

MAPB2293BCN	What’s New in VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs
MAPB1954BCN	Unleashing the Potential of VMware Aria Operations for Logs
CEIB1286BCN	Best Practices for Operating VMware Data Services Manager
VMTN2351BCN	How VMware IT Shares Their Best Practices with VMware Aria Operations for Logs