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Chapter 7. March 2025
7.1. Product-wide Updates Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
7.1.1. Published blogs and resources Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
- Blog: Charge back the cost of OpenShift Virtualization with Red Hat Insights cost management by Pau Garcia Quiles (March 6, 2025)
- Learning path: Harden new builds with Insights image builder and compliance by Benjamin Blasco (March 19, 2025)
- Documentation: Using the Red Hat Insights API by Karen Norteman (March 31, 2025)
- KB article: Understanding Red Hat Insights Events and Notifications in the Hybrid Cloud Console by Jerome Marc (March 26, 2025)
7.2. Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
7.2.1. General Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
New documentation for the Red Hat Insights API
A new guide titled Using the Red Hat Insights API is now available on docs.redhat.com, which aims to help developers and system administrators get the most out of the Insights API. The guide describes the web services available to integrate Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with external applications, and walks you through accessing, authenticating, and using the API to integrate Insights data into your workflows. The guide also complements the Red Hat Insights API Cheat Sheet, which is a handy reference for quickly navigating API endpoints and commands. Together, these resources make it easier than ever to automate and extend the capabilities of Red Hat Insights.
- Read the guide: Using the Red Hat Insights API
- Check out the cheat sheet: Red Hat Insights API Cheat Sheet
Insights notifications sample repository
A new GitHub repository and Knowledgebase article are now available to help you to integrate Red Hat Insights events into your operations more effectively.
You can now view examples of JSON payloads for events and notifications in the insights-events-samples repository. These sample events can help you understand the structure and format of notifications that get generated for Insights services.
For a deeper understanding of the notification workflow and how Insights events get generated by each application, see also the Knowledgebase article Understanding Red Hat Insights Events and Notifications in the Hybrid Cloud Console, which complements the repository.
7.2.2. Advisor Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
New recommendations
The Insights advisor service now detects and recommends solutions for the following issues:
- The configured kdump target is unsupported
- Cron jobs failed to run when user passwords expired
- IBM DB2 will not perform optimally in SAP environment when the standard parameter settings for DBM are not configured
- IBM DB2 will not perform optimally in SAP environment when the standard parameter settings for database configuration are not configured
- The squid service crashes on edge computing systems when IPv6 is disabled at the kernel level on RHEL9
- Package operations through dnf or yum fail when using affected Varonis with SELinux enabled
- Automatic rotation of all journals occurs when SplitMode=uid is set with persistent storage on RHEL9
- Kernel panic occurs when CIFS is mounted with the option 'cache=none'
7.2.3. Compliance Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
SCAP Security Guide updates
The SCAP Security Guide (SSG) has been updated to 0.1.76, and also now includes support for RHEL 10.
To find the latest supported SSG by RHEL version, see the following Knowledgebase article:
7.2.4. Insights image builder Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
The Insights image builder can now use uploaded RPM content
The Insights image builder can now include RPM content that was uploaded to a custom repository hosted in Red Hat Insights content repositories.
More options for customizing Insights image builder
With this update, enhancements have been made to the user experience for building images with Red Hat Insights, consistent with the options available with the RHEL image builders.
In Insights image builder, you will now see the following options for configuring and customizing your images:
- Timezone and NTP servers
- Language locale and keyboard
7.2.5. Inventory Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
Inventory now reports when a system becomes stale
The inventory service now triggers System became Stale events. A System became Stale event occurs when the state of a system changes to stale, helping you track inactive or outdated systems more effectively. System state changes are evaluated hourly by the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and Red Hat Insights.
The System became Stale event adds to the following system-based events in inventory:
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New System registered: Triggers when a system is registered or added to inventory, regardless of the collector, for example,
insights-client
, Satellite, or Subscription Manager. - System deleted: Triggers when a system is deleted from inventory, either manually or automatically.
- Validation error: Triggers when a system’s payload is rejected by Insights due to issues such as corrupted data or incorrect values.
Together, these events provide better visibility into a system’s lifecycle changes, ensuring you stay informed and proactive in managing your infrastructure.
For more information about system states and staleness and deletion in the inventory application, see the following documentation:
7.2.6. Malware detection Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
Updated malware signatures
A new IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence (XFTI) malware signature (XFTI_mal_AutoColor
) was deployed to the Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux malware detection service to help expose on your RHEL malware detection service. Auto-Color is an evasive malware that creates a backdoor on infected systems.
UI fixes and improvements
Several updates and fixes have been implemented to improve inventory, including:
System Details page:
- Icons to represent System type were added
- Last Upload was renamed to Last Seen
- Last Updated field was added
- Sorting: Sorting in the Add Systems modal now works as expected.
- Custom staleness: Several usability issues in the Customer staleness menu were resolved
7.3. Insights for OpenShift Container Platform Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
7.3.1. Advisor Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
Incident detection Technology Preview in the Cluster Observability Operator
With this update, a Technology Preview of the Red Hat Insights incident detection feature has been added to the optional OpenShift Container Platform Operator, Cluster Observability Operator (COO).
When an issue occurs in a cluster, you rarely receive just one alert, instead, you get a cascade of related alerts as the error propagates. This phenomenon, known as an "alert storm", is a common challenge in distributed systems. In a testing or staging environment, you can more quickly and easily recognize patterns and apply fixes but in production environments, this approach is not scalable. If the pattern is unknown or slightly different, instant analysis is typically not possible.
Incident detection overcomes this problem and uses analytics to group alerts into incidents, which can help you to quickly and easily understand the underlying issue and how to resolve it.
7.3.2. Cost management Copia collegamentoCollegamento copiato negli appunti!
Cost of OpenShift Virtualization GA
In March 2025, we announced the general availability (GA) of Red Hat Insights cost management, adding the cost of storage, networking, and overheads to the existing cost distribution capabilities that were released previously as a Technology Preview.
In November, we introduced the Red Hat Insights cost management feature to help you to calculate the costs of virtual machines (VM) running on OpenShift Virtualization. In the Technology Preview release, only CPU and memory costs are distributed to the VMs.
For more information, see the blog post, Charge back the cost of OpenShift Virtualization with Red Hat Insights cost management.
Red Hat continues to work on further enhancements to custom cost models for virtual machines running OpenShift Virtualization, including the costs of:
- OpenShift Virtualization VMs per month
- OpenShift Virtualization VMs core per month
- OpenShift Virtualization VMs core per hour
We are also using subscriptions as the lighthouse use case, for example, the cost of a Satellite subscription.