What's New In This Version of Riverbed IQ?

Riverbed IQ introduces new and enhanced features frequently. This page announces new functionality added in recent versions.

Note that some features are made available to you before their functionality is built out completely, and, similarly, these features may be available before they're described completely in the user assistance. Feel free to begin using new features as soon as they're available, and check back here for enhancements to them.

April 15, 2025

Added Data Store Node

The Riverbed IQ Runbook Nodes palette now provides a new Data Queries node: Data Store, which provides access to datasets associated with the specified Data Type. Once configured and used in a Runbook, the Data Store node will enable automation to process the data. The new Data Store node initially supports Data Types for the following Data Sources: Aternity and NPM+ (coming soon). For details see Data Store.

March 28, 2025

Generative AI

Riverbed IQ now provides a new page to opt-in to Generative AI capabilities (including the new GenAI Runbook node). The new 'Riverbed IQ Assist Configuration' page permits an Administrator to opt-in/opt-out of Generative AI capabilities (Default: opt-out). For details see Riverbed IQ Assist Configuration.

Monitoring Usage

Riverbed IQ now has a new page that contains Runbook Usage and Runbook Node Usage information in support of the new Runbook Node Execution Value pricing model. For details see Monitoring Usage page.

February 27, 2025

Generative AI

Riverbed IQ now offers a new GenAI runbook node that provides access to the Riverbed Platform Generative AI Language Model. The GenAI runbook node processes available data into generative-content that can be passed along for further runbook processing. The new GenAI runbook node, as well as the associated Generative AI capabilities, are inactive by default and only enabled on-request. For details see GenAI Node.

December 18, 2024

Predictive AI

Riverbed IQ now provides Predictive AI that forecasts Interface Utilization to surface potential Interface Utilization issues before they occur. This new capability is available on the Explorer Interfaces page AI Forecasting button. For details see Interfaces Explorer.

API Documentation

Riverbed IQ Public REST API documentation is now available! Click on this link to go to the Riverbed IQ REST API portal.

November 26, 2024

Mute Applications and Locations

Riverbed IQ customization enhancements that provide the capability to tag specified non-critical Applications and Locations so they are no longer processed through the Analytics Pipeline - and therefore do not appear in Incidents.

Grouping of related Applications, and grouping of related Locations

Riverbed IQ now provides the ability to map the variety Application (and Location) definitions from disparate sources into a common taxonomy that optimizes Incident Generation and Runbook Automation.

Runbook Portability between Tenants

Riverbed IQ provides more comprehensive support for export/import of Runbooks between Tenants - enabling more streamlined ability for the community to share. Runbook export/import now highlights the presence of more complex structures in a target Runbook (e.g. use of Integrations Library) and provides guidance as to what is needed for a comprehensive export/import (e.g. installation/configuration of underlying Integration[s]).

November 7, 2024

External Runbooks Page

The Riverbed IQ UI has been updated to provide a dedicated page for listing External/Webhook Runbooks. This provides a better separation of Incident Runbooks and External Runbooks (which used to all apear in the Incident Runbooks page). All Webhook Runbooks that appeared in the Incident Runbooks page previously now are now available in the External Runbooks page.

Add Insight Node

Riverbed IQ On-Demand and External Runbooks now have the ability to employ the new Add Insight node to surface critical insights discovered over the course of an automation.

October 10, 2024

Incident Timeline

Riverbed IQ incidents are enhanced with a visual Incident Timeline that replaces the Incident Source area and provides a chronological view of an incident's lifecycle, highlighting when key indicators were detected, additional indicators were correlated, and runbook automations were executed. Through an interactive UI, you can drill down for details and even trace the path taken by any automation linked to the incident. This feature enhances transparency, allowing for clear analysis and improved response.

Runbook Path Traversal

Riverbed IQ now can overlay the path of execution through any Runbook automation (e.g., Incident Runbooks, Lifecycle Runbooks, etc.) in order to clearly show the course of an automated investigation

October 3, 2024

Application Roll-Up

Riverbed IQ now offers enhanced incident management by correlating multiple Application-Location indicators into a single incident. This means that similar issues across multiple applications at the same location, or the same application across different locations, are grouped together, reducing noise, accelerating root-cause analysis, and allowing for faster, more efficient resolution of problems. The UI features an enhanced Automation Management page with new triggers, ready-to-use runbooks for automated investigations, and new incident types tailored to these events. You'll also have flexible options to configure and manage which applications should be correlated.

August 30, 2024

Subflow Versioning

Riverbed IQ Subflows are now versioned.

July 18, 2024

Scheduled Runbooks

Riverbed IQ now provides the ability to schedule the unattended execution of your On-Demand Runbooks! You can schedule On-Demand Runbooks to execute at specific dates and times, and on recurring hourly, daily, and weekly bases. The new Runbook Scheduling page lists your configured scheduled Runbooks and provides the Schedule Runbook wizard for configuring On-Demand Runbooks for scheduled execution.

Analytics & Threshold Configuration

Riverbed IQ now exposes the configurables employed by the Data Analytics Pipeline to identify anomalous measurements for all Key Measurements. The new Analytics & Threshold Configuration page, provides a listing of all Key Measurements (according to Entity type: Devices, Interfaces, and Applications), with the ability to enable/disable processing on a per Key Measurement basis, and the ability to customize the configuration of Threshold-based Key Measurements in order to tune Riverbed IQ to your environment.

June 27, 2024

Integrations Library

Riverbed IQ now provides an Integrations Library comprising a variety of high-value Integrations, simplifying and accelerating their configuration to bring all of your ecosystem's data together in one place for processing. When you install an Available Integration from the Integrations Library, the associated capability will appear in the Runbook Nodes palette and be available for use in Runbook automations.

April 26, 2024

On-Demand Runbooks

You can now create runbooks that you can execute manually as needed. These are different from incident runbooks that execute automatically for new incidents and life-cycle runbooks that execute automatically for life-cycle events.

Custom Decision Branch Labels

You can now assign customizable labels to a Decision Branch node’s outputs, making it easier to annotate each branch on the runbook canvas and track what it does.

Preferred Data Sources

If you use a mix of AppResponse and NetProfiler data sources, you can now specify a preferred data source for streaming key metrics into the Analytics Pipeline. In all cases, all data sources can be queried during Runbook execution.

April 16, 2024

Custom UI Filter Configuration

The Riverbed IQ UI has been enhanced to allow flexible configuration of filter facets. The IQ UI has a number of filterable pages with default filter configurations; Customize Filters can be used, now, to show the set of available and selected facets and configure the filters. This is especially useful for optimizing the Explorer page to show/hide custom property filters.

Runbook Editor Usability

The construction of Liquid templates in runbook nodes has been simplified by an enhanced Template field. The Template field now provides an Insert control that simplifies the addition of elements from a trigger, parent, or variable, as well as a built-in parser that detects and highlights formatting issues.

Runbook Test Usability

Executing a test run for a runbook now remembers prior inputs (initial conditions for logic processing) so that test runs can be re-executed in rapid succession, or at a later time, without having to re-enter the same inputs each time.

Explorer Detail Enhancements

The Device Explorer and Interface Explorer pages have been enhanced to expose all available properties, making a rich set of searchable, sortable, and filterable information for devices and interfaces available at your fingertips.

OAuth 2.0 Support for Custom Parameters

OAuth 2.0 functionality has been extended to support advanced configuration of custom parameters in the OAuth 2.0 Token Request. This expands the breadth of OAuth 2.0 integrations available to Riverbed IQ.

AppResponse Data Source Vantage Points

Riverbed IQ support for AppResponse as a data source has been enhanced to enable runbook automations to pivot their data-gathering perspective between the various distributed AppResponse instances using the new vantage point property provided in runbook data query nodes.

User Assistance Table of Contents

This user assistance has been enhanced with a table of contents (see the pane at the left) that exposes and surfaces the breadth and depth of available documentation.

February 7, 2024

Custom Properties

Custom properties enable you to define meaningful attributes that you can associate with monitored entities (tag) to enrich the available dataset with custom metadata. This custom data can be used to influence runbook behaviors and improve decision making.

Subflows

Subflows enable “containerization” of complex workflows or customized integrations into a single new runbook processing node which provides value when reused in other Runbooks. This simplifies the runbook creation process and reduces the amount of touchpoints necessary when editing.

October 27, 2023

Custom Triggers

This feature provides a customizable way to configure a trigger for a specific event and map it to a custom investigation (e.g., only execute runbook “R1” when there is a Sharepoint application event). This capability provides a simple way for users to identify and intercept specific events of interest, and perform detailed custom analysis that is informed by their shared practical experience.

Async Support in HTTP Request Node

This is a new capability added to the HTTP Request node in Runbooks that provides the ability to pause execution at the HTTP Request Node in anticipation of an asynchronous response. Simply configure the new Retry until Ready section in the HTTP Request node properties to support asynchronous response interactions.

August 24, 2023

Incident Lifecycle Events

Incident lifecycle events provide the ability to execute an associated automation whenever there is activity on an incident. Currently supported events are Status Changed, Indicators Updated, Ongoing State Changed, Runbook Completed, Note Added, and Note Updated. This functionality can be used to integrate with broader ecosystems and to streamline existing workflows (e.g., ITSM systems).

Webhook Trigger

The webhook trigger is a powerful new capability that enables external sources to execute custom automations that leverage the power of the LogIQ Engine.

August 18, 2023

Video tutorials now are available acrossRiverbed IQ -- simply click on the Learning icon to access. Video tutorials are available at all levels with global and contextual quick-links provided for User Assistance Video Tour, Runbook Editor Video Tour, and Incident Runbooks Video Tour.

July 6, 2023

The Incidents page has been enhanced to offer more flexibility than ever before. These enhancements include more granular, intuitive filtering, alongside the ability to perform fuzzy searches, exact matches, and exclusions, everything needed to identify a target set of incidents. Even better, you can now save any filtered search for quick access.

May 24, 2023

Runtime Variables

Variables can be used in runbook definitions, now. A number of built-in variables are provided, and you can create user-defined variables, as well. At this time, all variables are runtime scope variables, meaning that they are persistent over a single execution of a runbook.

Multi-Device Down Analysis Runbook

The Runbooks page provides a new built-in runbook named Multi-Device Down Analysis. Multi-Device Down Incidents are generated when Riverbed IQ detects multiple devices down at a individual location.

Monitoring Health

The Monitoring Health page summarizes the status and performance of your Riverbed IQ instance.