After several months of hard work and hundreds of customer interviews to gain valuable feedback, we’re absolutely thrilled to announce the general availability of Performance Analyzer 6!

This release is huge, as we pretty much changed, updated or improved every single component. The most obvious change from a visual perspective:

we upgraded to Grafana 6 (one of the best open source projects out there) as our dashboard engine.

The changes behind the scenes are countless, as we moved to a complete new micro service architecture, that allows much more scalability and flexibility than ever before.

One of the biggest improvements to start with: As a VMware vSphere user, that runs Kubernetes and container on top of ESXi you will gain a transparency and visibility like never before and not available anywhere else.

But lets cover all new features of Performance Analyzer 6 step by step:

New platform

new base OS (Ubuntu 18.04)

complete micro-service infrastructure (improved scalability and maintenance)

new Dashboard-Engine (Grafana 6)

Prometheus Backend support

New extensions

Nutanix support (including qcow2 images)

Kubernetes native integration

Kubernetes on VMware vSphere (K8s Node NUMA to VM NUMA to ESXi NUMA)

Kubernetes Pod to Container Process mapping

Istio metrics

Docker and Kubernetes container log analysis (Beta)

Google Stackdriver (Beta)

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Azure (Beta)

Elasticsearch (Filebeat)

Kubernetes Pod to Container Process mapping, to get Context switch information of the container when drilling down from the Kubernetes node: