What's new

History of significant updates (yyyy-mm-dd).

2026-07-21

• Updated dashboards and related Elastic Stack artifacts to work with Elastic Stack 8.0.0.
• Updated requirements: the recommended version of Elastic Stack, and also the minimum required version, is now 8.0.0. Previously, the requirements cited Elastic Stack 7.14.0.
• New topic: Upgrading Elastic from 7.14.0 to 8.0.0.
• Updated Docker Compose configuration:
  • Updated Elasticsearch configuration: cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.enable_for_single_data_node: true added for compatibility with Elastic 8.x.x.
  • Updated Kibana configuration: xpack.reporting.roles.enabled: false added for compatibility with Elastic 8.x.x.
  • New .env file enables you to easily set the Elastic Stack version used by Docker Compose.
  • Updated Docker Compose file:
    • Refers to the Elastic Stack version specified in the .env file.
    • Sets restart: unless-stopped. For details, see the Docker Compose docs.

2025-04-03

• Added new dashboards "zCX Instances" and "zCX Containers" in the z/OS bundle

• Added new dashboards "IPSec summary" and "IPSec tunnels" in the Network bundle

2025-02-03

• Added new dashboard "Storage Trends" in the Storage bundle

2023-11-10

• Updated the Kibana settings page to use new Kibana setting names.

2023-09-19

• Updated the starter Elasticsearch index template to set number_of_replicas to 0.
  This update helps new Elastic users, with a single-node "sandbox" test environment, to avoid problems caused by the default number_of_replicas value of 1.
• Updated the documentation to highlight the need to set number_of_replicas to 0 in a single-node environment.

2023-05-18

• Starter dashboards for CICS have been updated. "Response time analysis" dashboard has been replaced by new "Service level analysis" dashboard.

2023-02-01

• Updated the Logstash pipeline configuration.

2022-12-20

• Added starter dashboards for network in a separately installable bundle.

2022-11-04

• Added starter dashboards for storage in a separately installable bundle.

2022-06-24

• Added starter dashboards for MQ in a separately installable bundle.

2022-05-30

• Added starter dashboards for IMS and JVM in separately installable bundles.

• Renamed Groups dashboard to Db2 home in Db2 bundle

2022-02-15

• Added starter dashboards for CICS and Db2 in separately installable bundles.

• Removed sample data.

  To forward data to these starter dashboards, you must have ODP.

• New Elasticsearch index names include the OMEGAMON monitoring agent product code (kpp).

• Updated Logstash pipeline configuration reflects the new Elasticsearch index names and creates data streams instead of time-based (per-day) indices.

• Updated Elasticsearch index template enables data streams.

• Updated Elasticsearch ILM policy details, including:

  • New starter policy name, omegamon-ds-ilm-policy, to reflect the use of data streams

    Was: omegamon-ilm-policy (note the -ds in the new name)

  • Rollover settings

• Moved the starter dashboards GitHub repository from z-open-data/z-omegamon-analytics-elastic-docker to z-open-data/odp-elastic-samples.

• If you don't have an existing Elastic Stack instance that you want to use: the single-container Elastic Stack Docker environment, based on the sebp/elk Docker image, has been replaced with a multi-container Docker Compose file, based on the per-component images built by the Elastic developers.

• Moved the documentation from README.md files to a dedicated GitHub repository, z-open-data/z-open-data.github.io.

2021-10-24

• First release of starter Elastic dashboards for ODP, in the GitHub repository z-open-data/z-omegamon-analytics-elastic-docker

• Sample dashboards for the z/OS monitoring agent