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The new MAP extension is available (v 22.10.1)

Long wait is now over, the new MAP is available!As of now it is compatible only with the 22.10 version but will be with the 22.04 in the coming days.You will find all necessary information for installation and migration of your existing views in our official documentation.We also renamed the beta program “The Watch” group as “MAP (Web) Early adopters”. You’ll find some interesting documentation and can freely exchange with the community, raise feedback or just share thoughts on this new extension.In a nutshell, new MAP implementation is: A new online editor Graphical views can now be created and edited directly from the Centreon web user interface, by any user with the proper user rights.The user interface is still an easy-to-use drag and drop drawing tool that retains all the capabilities from the legacy desktop client, albeit with a slightly different look and feel.Based on the widely distributed Draw.io open source library, map edition becomes as easy as pie.  A new server to increase performances The MAP server stores all graphical views and serves them to the Centreon web interface. On very large monitoring platforms, with thousands of views showing thousands of objects in real-time, the legacy version of the server could struggle to keep up.A brand new server has been developed, implementing a new data model, to increase the performance in all circumstances.  A migration process  As it was key for us that you can still use your existing views, we have implemented a fully automated migration process. During this, all the views you created with the desktop client will be converted to the new format and stored in the new database. From here, you will be able to edit your maps and create new ones directly from your Centreon web interface.At any time, you can roll back to the previous version and find your views exactly as you let them before the migration. It is important to note that any modification you do on your views and any newly created maps with the web interface will not be backported to the legacy MAP environment after roll back. MAP is now ready to evolve and new features will be available on each and every (even minor) versions. The MAP team is eager to hear your feedback and ideas. See also:Blogpost EN Blogpost FR

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Tackle compliance and finops challenges when operating your Azure deployments

Amongst this month's monitoring packs release, there are some exciting new modes if you run your cloud deployment on Azure or migrate to the Microsoft cloud.  These modes are part of the Azure Management Costs Pack. Initially, we just added a Budget mode to check your spending for a given allocation. Still, thanks to your feedback and contributions from the centreon-plugins community, we can now check much more things, including: Cost explorer; do you need to quickly know the cost of a subscription or a resource group? Do you need to filter on specific tags to rebill part of your Azure Costs to one particular department or project? Embrace this new mode that will help you track your spending in real-time!  Hybrid Benefits; make sure you're optimizing your licensing costs and that your configuration grant eligible resources with this optimized license allocation.  Orphaned Resources; sometimes, you might have disks and network cards that aren't linked with anything, and this mode will help you find these. Tags Compliance; these metadata are essential and widely used to help the DevOps teams manage resource lifecycle, automation, and cost optimization. That's why this mode shows up to help you ensure that within a subscription, tags are correctly set. Check for a tag key, a key value, and even multiple pairs! All these new features are here to help you be more efficient in your day-to-day Azure management and automation, grab compliance-oriented metrics, and do faster troubleshooting! Give it a try :)